Why is _anyone_ still using Windows?
Altium and other dinosaurs that are still getting used to this newfangled "Windows" fad.
I have a whole Windows VM on my Mac for running Altium - would be amazing if they released a Mac and Linux version
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
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Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#382Not sure Microsoft realizes the damage they're doing to the Windows brand. My first experience with Windows 11 was figuring out some dumb workaround to use a local account. When I think back to Windows 7, the good feeling isn't nostalgia. It was the last user-focused Windows. Maybe someone will develop a new user-focused OS that's somehow compatible with Windows programs. Or better yet, maybe Microsoft will realize v…
Who needs a brand when you have a monopoly?
> maybe Microsoft will realize very important parts of Windows are going downhill and remember what made Windows great.
What made Windows great were the contracts with hardware manufacturers to have it installed by default on every single PC ever sold.
Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#383Discovered Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC edition recently. It's great! It is supposed to get security updates through 2032. It doesn't have Cortana, OneDrive, CoPilot, Edge, etc. (Which is a good thing IMO.) Nor does it require a cloud account to use.
Are there any limitations with this to be aware of? Are Hypervisor/Docker/WSL2 all supported? I'm trying to decide if I want to transition my work computer to Linux or Windows 10 LTSC. Most of my day is spent working inside of WSL2. So, it kind of seems like I should just get on with using Linux native, but several decades of sunken cost have kept me on Windows. I don't think I have a desire to 'upgrade' to Windows 1…
Yes, LTSC is literally missing parts that are standard on a Windows install - it's an operating system designed for ATMs and kiosks that run exactly one tested application, it is not a general-purpose operating system.
If you happen to not need those pieces, and you don't care about running super out-of-date software? Sure it might work. But it's not a Good Idea in general.
Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#384Use the last version of Win 10 LTSC iot or Win 11 LTSC
Security updates for years and no BS
Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#385'We'll never require you to need an online account to log in to your system' Look how that changed. Windows Recall 'We'll never use this in any bad way whatsoever' Sure thing. Windows 10 goes EOL in 8 days, with the EU forcing Microsoft to give their customer bases security patches. Not anywhere else though, and not in the U.S. What was the end goal with that? Move everybody over to Windows 11; on their EOL page it l…
This should have been the EU approach to Apple. Instead we got third party "App Stores" to install software Apple still approves and controls. It could have been a three paragraph law.
I (quite honestly, not being snarky) think the whole reason for that was the EC were trying to target Apple (and some other US tech companies) while pretending to not specifically target them, and in this case wanted Apple to do certain specific actions but couldn't be that prescriptive for the aforementioned reasons, so Apple was able to take advantage of that wiggle-room to take a different tack.
If they'd just been upfront that they were directly targeting a few US companies and prescribed exactly what to do, then the DMA wouldn't be a mess that made some things worse, and they could have made Apple to do what they wanted.
Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a .NET developer for 20+ years I’m down to my last Windows box - a gaming rig I pretend I have time to play on. Everything else is a Mac.
mac window management is borderline unusable and I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it. Looking at Tahoe, seems things are getting worse.
> mac window management is borderline unusable and I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it.
There's exactly two you need to get macOS eye-on-eye with Windows: Hyperswitch for an alt-tab that actually works and SizeUp to get a "window arrangement like Windows with Win+arrow keys".
Further migration pains can be eased with a Windows keyboard layout bringing special characters to where they belong in muscle memory (that however can and will bring pains with anything Adobe, their apps absolutely do not like non-Apple keyboard layouts and will refuse to load keyboard command presets) and Karabiner to map Ctrl+C/V to reduce hand strain.
Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#387Why is _anyone_ still using Windows?
I prefer it. Always have. Don’t have any objection to logging in with my online account, in fact I would even if I didn’t have to so all my stuff just syncs. Getting a new PC is now finally as easy as getting a new phone, just sign in and let it sync. Anyone who owns a cell phone and is worried about the privacy issues here is being ridiculous. Mac users fellate themselves over Mac usability. But if I click a file in…
You don't have any objection to the idea of being forced to use an online account? What if you lose access to your online account?
Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
Developing a new consumer-grade OS is literally not possible. I don't mean it would take a herculean effort like the software ecosystem issue takes to address, I mean actually not possible regardless of how much effort any development team put in. Virtually all hardware on the open market is made for Windows, largely powered by proprietary, closed-source drivers. Linux gets some afterthought from a percentage of vend…
Drivers are a lot of work. IMHO, do some core stuff, and then build in driver adapters. NDIS wrapper, linuxkpi, etc. If you want to work hard to make things easy, I bet you could build a hypervisor that does pci passthrough for each device to a guest that runs a different OS driver and rexports the device as a virtio device, and then the main OS guest can just have virtio drivers for everything. It can't be that hard…
> It can't be that hard to take documentation for writing Windows drivers and use that to build a minimal guest kernel to run windows drivers in.
ReactOS has been working on that for like, what, the last 20 years and still is far from generally usable.
Re: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux is the better OS. Windows 11 just forces people to evaluate other OS's to experience the latest Linux for themselves. I didn't have the time as a working Adult for distro hopping and Gentoo compiles, but the thought of having to live with Windows 11 made me try out modern linux again, glad I did.
Linux is now the better OS, after the other one got significantly worse than it used to be, and even that is close call depending on what you need Linux to do.
Linux distros became much better than Windows during Win 10 times.
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I use Emacs. It does need some fine tuning, tree-sitter installation, etc. but after that, I cannot understand colleges using VS. I have seen no feature in VS not available in Emacs. Some colleges have switched from years VS to Emacs and after a week won’t look back.
> I have seen no feature in VS not available in Emacs. Guys, please. I am all for FOSS, but such delusions can only be harmful, for they prevent from actually improving stuff. Did you sir ever use debugger in your life?
Almost every day. I use gdb both for JTAG targets in embedded systems, as in a programs running in my host.
Emacs has a front end for gdb. Some colleges use other front ends.
What I’m preventing to improve, in your opinion?