An apology to Rick Kimball

I made the move 100% to Linux. I admit that I have spent some rather boring time today doing global edits of “\” to “/”. I can now truly appreciate your frustration

For those reading this that may not know the history… do not worry about it; rather, in your #include just always use the forward-slash “/” and never the back-slash “\” … just don’t do it. Otherwise, like me, you may find one day that you have to clean-up your own mess!

Ray

Thanks Ray..

You now seem to be the new unofficial Linux evangelist

RogerClark wrote:Thanks Ray..

You now seem to be the new unofficial Linux evangelist

Hi Ray,

I now run W7 on my Windows machines. I did have a new laptop that had 8.1 on it, but it was painful to use, however it took me a while before I could get W7 onto it, because the W7 installation disk does not have the USB3 drivers that were needed for my new laptop, and it took me a while before I accidentally found out what was going on (when I had the same issue on a new desktop machine)

Unfortunately for work, I have to run SW that is either WIndows or Mac and in reality only the Windows version is usable in a work setting.

So I’m suck with Windows on many of my machines.

I’m not sure how long MS will support W7, hopefully several more years, by which time I will hopefully not need to run windows for old dev software (Adobe)

RogerClark wrote:
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I’m not sure how long MS will support W7, hopefully several more years, by which time I will hopefully not need to run windows for old dev software (Adobe)

Hi Ray

Interesting about W7. I’m surprised that they have done end of life on it. There must be numerous big corporations with masses of W7 machines, whose IT dept would be reluctant to update to W10 because of the time / cost to update all the machines and reinstall all the software

(Yes I know you are supposed to be able to upgrade, but when has that every worked without any issues)

RogerClark wrote:
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Interesting about W7. I’m surprised that they have done end of life on it. There must be numerous big corporations with masses of W7 machines, whose IT dept would be reluctant …

Ray,
I did sys admin work for 18 years on HP_UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Win. I’m kind of caught though in that what I have to use for work and my ham stuff is all Windoze at least for the most part have to live with it. I have a few things that are Linux only and use a VM to run it in when I need it.

But I do loathe how MS is always breaking things and making it chew up memory and do dumb things. I wonder if they’ve outsourced their programming. I’ve seen when stuff like that happens you get brute force coding that works in a technical sense barely but are inefficient and crude. Makes a difference with someone that has a stake in the company’s success and someone that’s just doing it to make purely money. Outsourcing sounds great but there are things you can’t put monetary value on that you’re losing out on.

I guess I’ve been around MS junk so long I know what to look out for. But nothing is foolproof because fools are ingenious. But I was making money for a while fixing all the neighbors computer problems. lol

For now I guess we all have to weigh what we can and can’t live with and without. But as far as reliability and robustness we know which wins hands down.

Michael

Very snarky tricks being foisted upon non-geeg Windows users – to automate switch to WIn 10.
I had to work to disable it.

stevech wrote:Very snarky tricks being foisted upon non-geeg Windows users – to automate switch to WIn 10.
I had to work to disable it.

Microsoft has moved to inconsiderate and unethical tactics to jam W10 on unsuspecting users.
In the last few weeks, the default is true, for installing their W10 nag that is more intrusive than the toolbar one.

For this and many other reasons from nefarious types, one just has to read before clicking everything on the Internet an computers.