> There is no question that Windows 10 is ... quite the most secure operating system ever devised.
Telemetry aside, can anyone comment on this?
The woes of Windows 10
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Re: The woes of Windows 10
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#13More than 700m of the world's 1.5bn or so computers continue to run on Windows 7, a piece of software three generations old Win 7, Win 8, Win 10; 2 generations old. Preeeetty easy to check, WSJ. If your lede carries such a glaring mistake, why do I trust anything in this article.
> Preeeetty easy to check, WSJ.
How can I trust your nit-picky, pedantic complaint when you believe the article is in the WSJ rather than the Economist?
Re: The woes of Windows 10
#14I have a dual boot PC which is Arch Linux and Windows 7. The Windows 7 machine is only for gaming / steam, I never browse the internet on there and have pretty strict firewall ruleset. To be honest, I would consider upgrading it to 10, but I missed the free window, so I really don't fancy paying for it. My hope is that by the time that Windows 7 goes EOL, I can delete it and game just on Linux. Either that or I will…
You didn't miss any free window, you can still just download the image from Microsoft and upgrade. Upgrade to Windows 10. Windows 7 is archaic, especially for gaming as its primary use.
Re: The woes of Windows 10
#15I have a dual boot PC which is Arch Linux and Windows 7. The Windows 7 machine is only for gaming / steam, I never browse the internet on there and have pretty strict firewall ruleset. To be honest, I would consider upgrading it to 10, but I missed the free window, so I really don't fancy paying for it. My hope is that by the time that Windows 7 goes EOL, I can delete it and game just on Linux. Either that or I will…
You can still upgrade to 10 for free if you pretend you need assistive technologies: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgra...
Re: The woes of Windows 10
#16I have a dual boot PC which is Arch Linux and Windows 7. The Windows 7 machine is only for gaming / steam, I never browse the internet on there and have pretty strict firewall ruleset. To be honest, I would consider upgrading it to 10, but I missed the free window, so I really don't fancy paying for it. My hope is that by the time that Windows 7 goes EOL, I can delete it and game just on Linux. Either that or I will…
In an interesting twist on the ordinary plot I now code in Windows (picking up C# and want to use standard setup for now) and boot into my Linux machine every time I'm tired and want to play CSGO (often works wonders when I am sleepy) because it seems like I get somewhat better performance from my non-gaming laptop on Linux now
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Re: The woes of Windows 10
#17> But he has also dusted down his four-year-old Apple MacBook Pro and upgraded his Windows 7 desktop to the latest version of Linux Mint rather than Windows 10. Despite their idiosyncrasies, Macintosh and Linux have never looked so attractive. Linux gets refugees both from Windows and MacOS because MS just keeps messing Windows up (seems to be happening every other version), and Apple simply lets MacOS rot by not giv…
You just made three subjective claims. I don't see Linux's market share growing by large numbers. Apple updates macOS every year. Which features do you want? I haven't used Windows in a while but Microsoft seems to be making faster progress in updating Windows, browser, etc.
Re: The woes of Windows 10
#18The thing is, people don't upgrade Windows, in the large. They use the version of Windows their computer came with until they replace it. Microsoft has done more work getting people to upgrade to 10 than any previous version of Windows. I don't see what more they can do.
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#19I have a dual boot PC which is Arch Linux and Windows 7. The Windows 7 machine is only for gaming / steam, I never browse the internet on there and have pretty strict firewall ruleset. To be honest, I would consider upgrading it to 10, but I missed the free window, so I really don't fancy paying for it. My hope is that by the time that Windows 7 goes EOL, I can delete it and game just on Linux. Either that or I will…
You didn't miss any free window, you can still just download the image from Microsoft and upgrade. Upgrade to Windows 10. Windows 7 is archaic, especially for gaming as its primary use.
What are the advances of using 10 instead of 7 for gaming?
Re: The woes of Windows 10
#20I think there's an obvious and more general question here to be answered: if a piece of software is good enough, namely, it "disappears" when you are trying to do your job, then why bother to change it?
Yes, the new version might enable a more efficient workflow, or might be faster to boot-up.
But people hate changes and you need to invest considerable time in upgrading a piece of software (the upgrade itself + learning to navigate the new system + solving whatever goes wrong during the process). And that this is not just limited to "novices": I've heard wonderful things about Arch Linux, but my Ubuntu system works well enough and I've been using it for forever, so the incentives are pretty low and the time to be invested pretty high.