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Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
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Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#52My primary devices are an Ubuntu laptop + an Android phone. Both are very flexible for my needs. I'm scratching my head to figure out why should I be excited about all that integration, perhaps I'm not their customer. Don't get me wrong, I love & own Windows laptop too, but my Android phone does almost everything that Cortana is supposed to do, Dropbox gets me the files I need, I've moved away from MS Office... It's…
So, I have a couple of machines running the preview. I basically feel like I am not their targeted market most of the time. I don't use cortana, windows phone, or own an xbox. The use case it play a game or browse the web. So, the integration feature set doesn't really do anything for me.
Overall, the preview generally feels pretty good, with the occasional massive issues that tend to happen in software previews, nightly builds, and beta software the world over. Generally, think windows 8.1 but with slightly more desktop feel.
The gripes I have are mostly things that will likely get better by release, or are simply things that I disagree with design choices. To pick one example, let's talk about wifi.
The wifi selection recently moved from the windows 8 style UI to a newer UI. In the process it lost several features, the only things I can change on the properties screen for a wifi network are if it metered and if device discovery is on.
It might just been that I have spent too much time in linuxland recently, but that seems a bit like going too far the way of being idiot proof.
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#53I like a lot of what I'm seeing and hearing, but unless I can find a good replacement for Media Center on the desktop I might still be using Windows 7 for a few more years.
I still use winamp, but I may be a madman.
I do my devel work on a Xubuntu 14.04 install, tweaked for Compiz (yes, I use the cube desktop extensively).
I have Winamp installed via WINE. Best player ever.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really recommend Kodi (previously XBMC). It's open source, the ecosystem is vibrant, and pretty much everything plugs into it. http://kodi.tv/
But Media Centre has the ability to record DRM-ed cable. XBMC will never have that.
There's your first problem: you bought more cable than you needed for your internet connection.
Second problem: you tried to use DRM. See XKCD 488 as to why it's a problem.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't matter since your ISP/Browser/Mobile is tracking you anyway.
This makes me doubly sad to think that IPv6 backed away from requiring IPsec at all times. Very Sad.
Why? If who you're talking to is blabbing over a side channel, encryption doesn't matter. Encryption only stops Eve from seeing the content. And this says nothing regarding authentication. And there is no internet-wide RADIUS server.
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#56So, rather than a way to sync with your phone or setup stuff like calendar, contacts, photos or music sharing, they have just made a thing telling you to install Microsoft's cloud apps? Disappointing. Apple has a great iOS/OS X experience because the integration is deeper than just "install Apple's apps on your iPhone".
I don't use it because I don't like Metro UI apps but a large part of the list you give is already supported in Windows 8: calendar, contacts, photos (thru OneDrive). Some are available in a cross-platform fashion (calendar, contacts via MS account) others require a Windows Phone (IE opened tabs sharing, some systems settings). So I don't see them being removed from Windows 10 and don't really understand what you are…
> I don't use it because I don't like Metro UI apps but a large part of the list you give is already supported in Windows 8: calendar, contacts, photos (thru OneDrive)
So the only way to sync them is via the cloud?
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#57I like a lot of what I'm seeing and hearing, but unless I can find a good replacement for Media Center on the desktop I might still be using Windows 7 for a few more years.
I still use winamp, but I may be a madman.
I may be a madman
Whether that is the case or not, know that you are not alone in this world :]
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#58is this legit? its hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt5iLwNChyo
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
But Media Centre has the ability to record DRM-ed cable. XBMC will never have that.
There's your first problem: you bought more cable than you needed for your internet connection. Second problem: you tried to use DRM. See XKCD 488 as to why it's a problem.
you bought more cable than you needed for your internet connection.
What?
Second problem: you tried to use DRM.
I didn't. The cable company did. And plenty of the TV I am able to record is not available to stream on the same day, if at all.
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#60Outside of some stability/compatibility issues that I hope are ironed out before release, I've been pretty impressed with Windows 10 preview so far. I only use Windows for games these days, so I can't really speak to it from a productivity standpoint, but the interface is much more intuitive than Windows 8's while still keeping the handful of things I liked. Ironically, there were a couple of Windows 8 behaviors I ha…
> there's no longer the super strange "hot corners" that were the only way to access the shutdown menu I'm not a fan of the hot corners. If you use a keyboard, you can use the following shortcut to shutdown your PC WIN KEY + X, U, U
alt + f4, enter, enter also works well