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For my personal computers I was actually buying Windows licenses up to and including Windows 10, but now I switched to alternative acquisition methods again, and mostly run Windows in VMs with GPU pass-through and disabled networking. Just an honest relationship - they don't respect me, I don't respect them.
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Arguably, especially in the 8/10/11 era, few of these features are things that meaningfully enhance the user experience. Incredibly, we're still running NTFS and dealing with hacks on hacks on hacks. In the 8 era, a huge number of massive projects were started, promoted, and mothballed.
You say "still" as if NTFS hasn't evolved in that time. It still has a far more capable permissions model than any Linux filesystem. Raymond called it 21 years ago: when you change the insides, no one notices. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39...
And every time I format a new NTFS, the first thing I do before puting any files on it is set the drive root permissions Everyone = Full control + Replace child permissions with inheritable permissions.
Because I absolutely hate being denied access to my own files.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_XP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10 ???
> Windows 10 reintroduced the start menu A great feature. They dumbed it down though. > Unlike in previous versions of Windows NT, the Win32 console windows can now be resized without any restrictions. Truly a great achievement. It took MS 2 decades. > It can be made to cover the full screen by pressing the Alt+↵ Enter combination on keyboard. Maybe i'm too old, but this was always working. And the cherry on the cake…
>Truly a great achievement. It took MS 2 decades.
It could be resized since Win2000 I think, but not by dragging the window edges, there's a Properties dialog box accessible from the top-left icon menu. You can set the window size there. There's also a Defaults dialog that sets the properties of all future console windows.
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You say "still" as if NTFS hasn't evolved in that time. It still has a far more capable permissions model than any Linux filesystem. Raymond called it 21 years ago: when you change the insides, no one notices. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39...
> It still has a far more capable permissions model than any Linux filesystem. And every time I format a new NTFS, the first thing I do before puting any files on it is set the drive root permissions Everyone = Full control + Replace child permissions with inheritable permissions. Because I absolutely hate being denied access to my own files.
It's incredibly valuable to not allow anything which runs on your machine to immediately read and write anything, even on a single user system.
You can change permissions later...