I just want to point out that nobody should really be surprised by this. It's essentially why I dropped windows like a hot potato when Windows 8 asked me to make an account tmfor the first time.
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What company are you talking about?
To add on to what the other replier said - hilariously the monitor also doesn't come with VESA mounting holes standard - you have to buy an adapter separately for ~$100, so they screw you regardless of which stand option you want. Not sure why this was brought up under a reply about linux though.
I’m not going to pretend to know the intricacies of their monitor, but what if just drilling holes in the back in accordance with the VESA standard would damage the underlying screen/electronics? So an adapter would be needed, right?
Now what if you’re the guy who wants the expensive stand? Should you also pay for an adapter plate (I assume) for VESA mounting you’d never use? They could include the adapter and adjust price accordingly or they can allow their customers to pick their poison without being forced to buy something they don’t need. Frankly, I think that’s nice.
I bought an ASUS 3440x1440 gaming monitor (the gsync ultrawide with 100Hz “overclock”). It comes with a base that is heavy as hell and has some LED flashlight like component to it that projects the ROG logo onto the desk. Where is that base now? Sitting in my attic inside a trash bag (for a thin amount of protection from dust and dirt) as I have the monitor on one of my two desk arms. I also paid ~$1,200 for this. If I could’ve paid for that monitor without the stand at a reduced price reflective of the cost of that stand, I’d be pleased, quite frankly.
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#303This is good to know. I was about to buy a Windows machine to use with an EEPROM programmer (using most of them with a Mac or Linux is a faff) but this just stopped me.
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Windows remains the most convenient OS for video games, and given HN's userbase (mostly young men), I think a lot of people here use Windows.
Windows remains the most convenient OS for video games Steam's Proton is amazingly good. I recently switched from an iMac to a PC, and was expecting to use Windows for games and Linux for development, but Proton has run everything I've tried with excellent performance and stability.
Go install Linux on a laptop with Nvidia Optimus hardware and you'll see how "amazingly good" Linux gaming is on many devices. No, Linux won't come close for at least the next 10 years. It's much better now with Proton, yes, but still not nearly enough. Even on my machine with the more compatible hardware at least 50% of games crash with Proton before you even see a window.
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What about C: use Linux for the main desktop, use Wine for things that require Windows, use a VM with windows exclusively to launch that one annoying app which won't work under wine?
I'm thinking of going down that route, but for various reasons I NEED Outlook and Office a lot, although my main work is development and could work on another platform. If you do this (as I did in the past) you're now juggling N Windows VMs to avoid ONE Windows host system..
Why N VMs? You had one before, you can have one VM with multiple apps (if you can even count office parts as multiple apps)
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#306I help a friends dad with his computer sometimes. A few times per year, he brings it to me and says it’s being slow. Every time, it’s windows update bogging his machine down for weeks, since it can’t seem to update on its own without crashing and causing issues. Last week it took over 5 hours to reinstall an update - several times longer than would be needed to install windows or Linux from scratch. I might install c…
Perhaps install cinnamon in a VM like VirtualBox and let him roam over that first? See how he feels.
I’ve had issues with performance related to Windows update, though the issue is typically space remaining on c for the update (I’ve since bumped my Windows partition up to ~500GB since the macOS one I don’t need a ton so have 500:500 instead of 900:100).
I’d recommend not running VMs when it is being sluggish for Windows Update because the VM is going to feel sluggish too.
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#307FTA They have not removed it, it just is not visible by default if you are connected to the internet. So it’s just a UI issue
This is more a dark pattern issue: user who's connected to the Internet during OOBE stage of installation will be forced to create or login with online account because it won't have other choice visible while the choice still exist but is simply hidden, because of MS "goals".
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No, last time I was installing Win10 was 23/09/2019 and there was an option to use offline account. Although, some system settings already require ms account.
I noticed this change months ago. Probably with the release of 1903 (with a 1903 ISO). It seems to be dependent on whether you have an active connection or not. If not, it shows the offline option. If you do, it makes it really hard to find.
In my case notebook was connected to the Internet.
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#309LTSC
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why do people still use windows? It's stupid and naive to ask that, but I keep wondering why devs aren't successful in getting changes made at their companies.
Visual Studio.
I've tried running Linux a couple of times before but Visual Studio is the reason I always go back to Windows.
In my opinion there's no other IDE that's even close to VS.