Posted on 08/17/2020 6:20:58 AM PDT by dayglored
Translate please - is this anything the average user needs to know or is it just techie stuff
The first few bits are rather techie. The last is for anyone, techie or not, who remembers the wonderful joy that was Windows 95. A bit of nostalgia.
OK, you bastiges - I bought your damn Windows 10 computers. Nice job - you hid everything! Cluttered the screen up with stuff I never use. (Notice that the Gummn’t still uses what they want to - and is supported.)
That said, the wife and I will stay on our old Windows 7 units until they die.
At work, we still use DOS and Windows 95 to program our radios.
Not going to update from Windows 7.
Eventually will go Mac or Linux.
Thank you for buying and then testing our beta version for us.
This is exactly why I don’t use Windows anymore. Sure, Linux is not the answer for everyone, but treating updates like Nancy Pelosi treats legislation (pass it to see what’s in it) is a horrible model. It’s also why so many folks rightfully disable automatic updates.
If you’re an administrative type who primarily uses MS Office, you can roll the dice with these updates. If you’re a “power user” that uses applications that tax the hardware (CAD-types, high end AV-editing) no one has the time or the inclination to figure out what changed and what impact it may or may not have on their workflow.
For many of my clients we try these updates in a controlled environment before releasing them to their teams to avoid having core programs break when we could have avoided the update altogether.
Get a Mac.
I thank the Digi-god every morning my Win7 laptop and desktop continue to work.
I have a Win10 tablet that I now only use for internet radio. I tried to do stuff with 10 and would get too frustrated because the same tasks take only moments on Win7. It seems that 10 opted for glitz and glitter at the sake of usability and practicality.
I bought a Linux Mint laptop a couple of years ago. I am liking it better and better. My biggest gripe was its failure to load streaming video, especially for FoxSportsGo, NBC Sports and CBS sports. Recent upgrades (18.3 Mint) have most of them working. However, my cable also streams most channels through their app. It attempts to load but never does. Maybe after Adobe’s Flash is gone (end of 2020), the replacement tech (HTML5, etc.) will work better.
A bit of nostalgia.
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I am still using VISTA so I don’t keep up with the techie stuff.
Are you trying to run your cable company’s app on your Linux computer? Or using your cable company’s login to access streaming channels (e.g. NatGeo) on your Linux computer. The latter generally works for me (although I am using Ubuntu, not Mint).
MJ
Both, actually.
The cable app runs in a browser, just like the sports apps do. I get the ‘loading’ icon, but all it does is spin — lever loads.
The NBC, ESPN, Fox sports streams do load in the browsers.
It may have something to do with the Flash plug-in.
A relative rarity in these modern times. If Vista does what you need, okay. My two words of caution, which you've doubtless heard many times before, are:
I went to work at Microsoft as a contractor in April of 1995 and was working as a tech in building 24 on August 15th. We weren’t allowed to watch the rollout but I did manage to sneak out for a little bit and listened to the presentation which was directly across the street.
I was able to authenticate a fresh install of Windows XP last week. Over the phone, with help from a very patient lady bot.
Impressive. I thought that was impossible. Were you really communicating with a bot?
Absolutely.
Searching on the web, it seems that Microsoft has known about this problem since May and yet they are still pushing it out to people without fixes.
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