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The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.
http://betanews.com/2016/06/09/control-when-windows-10-insta...
I tried this for a months, but eventually moved back.
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It will simply roll back the half-finished updates and retry the next shutdown. Those things are done transactional. Powering down won't hurt it.
You mean pulling the plug instead of shutting down normally? I suppose that'd work but usually you only realize that Windows wants to update _after_ you hit the shutdown button. And powering the machine down in this state will likely result in an unbootable machine. And good luck fixing that, especially if your hard-drive is encrypted.
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I've discovered Autofac has good support for CoreCLR. Plus it's well designed and powerful.
I can attest to how well designed Autofac is. I had to decide on which DI framework to use on a small front end WPF application that I worked on at a job last year (the app had a lot of singleton classes that were impossible to unit test hence why I needed to introduce a DI framework). I'd come from a job where larger framework choices had been made years prior by senior developers and their framework of choice at th…
It works just as well in Core. As such, it's usually the first package I install in a new Core project.
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Would be nice if I didn't need the half the KDE desktop for it.
What difference does that make? You don't have to run KDE (heck, I use it on windows). Yes its UI is a separate library from the specific program - any well-factored program will do the same, whether it exposes the separation or not.
• It's more packages I need to download. Doubly annoying because 95% of the packages are just "thin wrapper around foo, because we're too hipster to use libraries directly like peasants".
• It installs system-wide services I have to disable/mask just so other programs don't mistakenly use them because they think I run KDE and they have to integrate into it.
• Oh wait, I can't disable some of these, because Krita itself needs them and now I need to figure out how to make them play nice with my desktop aaaaaarggghhhh
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Paint.Net is good, indeed. Let Krita be your new friend. https://krita.org/en/
Would be nice if I didn't need the half the KDE desktop for it.
It's worth taking another look if that was something that put you off in the past.
The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was mad about that. My PC just shut off and started doing updates, in the middle of the day. My friend said "how much did you pay for Windows 10." I said "nothing, it's free update." then he said "There you go."
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I suppose I'm hoping for a point in the near future where AR/VR type glasses (or something like that) can be used with high enough fidelity and resolution to replace my desktop, physically. Coupled with virtualization and a good keyboard, I think the PC form factor could be fully obviated.
Waiting for Apple or someone to introduce "Retina VR"? The issue is, if you double the pixel density you quadruple the amount of work on the GPU. Few current graphics cards would be able to smoothly render content that high-res, yet.
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Group policy editor. You can configure it to not update while anyone is logged in, only manual, at a set time, etc. It's just not in any of the "usual" settings menues. Likely rationalized by average users not disabling security updates by accident or something.
I love that group policy! It will still force a restart about every 9 days with that enabled, but it's much better than daily restarts.
And yes I am completely aware that Windows 10 updates are in no way comparable to the civil rights movement and I am in no way making any such comparison.
I am just quoting a witty man.
The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.
In Win 10 Anniversary Update you can specify active hours, when you use the device and it shall not be rebooted. Also, there's a setting for custom restart time. http://betanews.com/2016/06/09/control-when-windows-10-insta...