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Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
Posted on 06/23/2021 4:36:29 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
They’ll make the ribbon take half of your screen. None of the icons will make any sense. Well, less than they already do.
Spare the flames. I use Microsoft's crap just like everyone else because I have to.
Agree
Well, that's just tough tamales. You'll get it whether you like it or not. I was happy with Windows 7, and then one day they upgraded it anyway without my consent. I had the option to go back to Windows 7, but my brother, a computer programmer, told me that this would not be a good idea.
I liked XP better than Win 10.
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Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
Anticipating new Windows 11, I built my new desktop from parts. i910850K CPU, 64 GB RAM (MB will host 128 GB). 850 W PS. 360 mm MSI water cooler. Boot disk is 500 GB NVMe currently loaded with Fedora 34. Waiting for Windows is a Samsung NVMe 1 TB SSD. A retail license for Windows 10 Pro is $199. I'll see what Windows 11 brings to the table and at what price. For now, I'm enjoying Fedora 34 with 10 cores/20 theads and lots of room.
I have an Asus laptop with the i7 and 16 GB RAM. Currently running Windows 10 Pro 20H2. Need to bump it to 21H1 to match the old 2013 vintage desktop.
Oh frack.
I started in UNIX in 1980. Sysadmin and software developer on mainframes and super-minis. UNIX-1100 on Sperry-UNIVAC 1100-64 and 1100-92. Western Electric 3B20S (where C++ first emerged in the Bell System where I worked), Unisys 7000 (CCI Power6/32), HP9000 running PA-RISC HP-UX 9, SunOS on SPARC, Xenix on 68000, HP-UX 7.0 running on 68030 (kernel develpment contract), Xenix on 80286 PC, 80386SX. Linux came later as a knock off of Minix (a teaching version of UNIX). Linus got lots of help of the UNIX community and visits to UseNIX. Today, I work mostly in Linux for that style of OS and in Windows 10 for Windows hosted stuff.
X Windows is still the primary windowing system for UNIX/Linux. I did lots of work in the X11/Motif world starting back in 1986 when HP gave us a sneak peek at their Cupertino office. It's still a fine windowing paradigm. Most of what we build today is browsers connected to web servers via TCP/IP. Endless "frameworks" to wrap the basic HTML/CSS/Javascript into a palatable form. Server side is mostly Java today. It was heavy C++ when I started building server code in 1983. I'm wrangling some "old" OSGi code this week and wrapping it in Spring Boot REST interfaces in place of Java RMI. The whole product goes into a Docker container and gets deployed with Kubernetes. Life goes on.
The biggest change will be that, y’all Windows users will no longer receive updates & security updates!
Unless, you pay $200 up-front & ongoing subscription fees to upgrade to our new Windows 11. ( Which has no underlying technological change that couldn’t have been achieved by a simple update! )
If I remember correctly, I think the poster is living in Spain. Ex-pat I think.
I liked Win7, but it had some bugs. One was the result of a claimed “security patch” that was actually a patch to prepare for the “upgrade” to Win 10.
“would MS use some sort of program to get into your PC and trash W7?”
Absolutely.
What could possibly go wrong?
Windows XP and 7, the best O/S’s they ever put out, and I still have both!
;-)
I live in Spain. that's just how it is.
Sorry, I didn't realize that. I live in Spain and my Yahoo pages automatically come up in English. That's why the into to the post is in English. It's what I see.
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