Microsoft is About To Start Aggressively Advertising Windows 10 To Windows 7 Stragglers (betanews.com) 266
Mark Wycislik-Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Having already started to notify Windows 7 hangers on that support is due to come to an end, Microsoft is now ready to get a little more aggressive. If you haven't moved on from Windows 7, soon you will see full-screen notifications warning you that "your Windows 7 PC is out of support." The messages are due to be displayed from the day after support ends. So when January 15 rolls around, anyone who has doggedly stuck with Windows 7 will find that they not only have no support and no security updates, but also that they are pestered by an invasive message delivered by a program called EOSnotify.exe.
Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Insightful)
No, really.
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Insightful)
Sadly, that is what I will have to do. My W7 machine runs perfectly, plays the one game I have (Rome Total War) and lets me do whatever I want, however I want, without interfering in my choices.
I'm not going to W10 since it's nothing but Clippy on double steroids, and Macs, well, you don't get what you pay for. That only leaves Linux.
The hard part will be trying to find photo editing software, though even that may not be a big deal with Nikon dropping support for all of its third party repairs.
*sigh* I guess leaving well enough alone isn't the right thing to do any more.
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I resisted going to W10 for a long time.
Then I did, and frankly its got a few useless UI changes (that can often be replaced) but generally its pretty much the same.
You will want to turn off all the spyware and phone-style guff they put in, but that's a one-off ticklist of steps off the internet.
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Insightful)
Then I did, and frankly its got a few useless UI changes (that can often be replaced) but generally its pretty much the same.
You will want to turn off all the spyware and phone-style guff they put in, but that's a one-off ticklist of steps off the internet.
I went through this same process on my work desktop (but have stuck with Win7 at home). You're not wrong, but you did leave off one very important part:
You will want to turn off all the spyware and phone-style guff they put in, but that's a one-off ticklist of steps off the internet and then redoing the same thing every single time they push out a forced update.
The lack of control and the aggressive anti-consumer attitude of Microsoft when it comes to Windows 10 and the current update process is the primary reason I have avoided Windows 10 at home. The clunky and stupid UI changes and usability regressions are just icing on the crap cake.
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"and then redoing the same thing every single time they push out a forced update."
That is why GPO's were invented. There are only three things that require continuous manual fixing:
(1) The Windows Firewall will keep letting every little piece of Microsoft Malware accept incoming unsolicited connections, and you have to keep turning this ability off. This cannot be fixed with GPO's -- Microsoft simply overwrites the Firewall configuration with their desired settings every time an update is applied.
(2) You
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Well, I have never appled and I have managed to keep a windows 7 install going from first install, no re-intall, I had to dual boot Linux of course to be able to repair and keep the windows 7 install going but managed it. So now, well, I have never appled in all my time of computing decades, never owned one, so before I kick on, I will at leastr apple once, when the windows 7 pc dies, probably turn it into a rebuild Linux only boot.
M$ can go fuck itself if it ever thinks I will bother with Windows anal prob
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Insightful)
but generally its pretty much the same.
No, it's not. Not even close. I work with W10 every day at work. I help support thousands of machines running it. My dad has a W10 machine I also help support from time to time. In no way, shape, or form is W10 pretty much the same as W7.
First, in W7, similar items are grouped together. For example, on the W7 I'm using, when I click the start button, my default is Restart. Clicking the arrow gives me every other option I could want. Not so in W10. They split out the options into separate groups. This doesn't even go into having to play hide and seek in W10 when trying to find even simple items to change. As far as I can tell, W10 was deliberately designed to be as user-unfriendly as possible through the hiding of functions and giving them names which have no relation to their functions.
Second, the Start menu itself is far superior in W7 than 10, not the least of reasons being there's an actual scroll bar in 7 and not some hair thin line you have to find like in 10. I can grab that bar and go all the way down my list with the flick of a finger whereas with 10 you have to hunt and peck and hope the line expands for something to latch onto.
Third, W7 is just plain cleaner. Unlike W10 with its shitfest of tiles and programs which can't be removed from the taskbar, W7's appearance is much easier on the eyes and much simpler to use.
W10 sucks. There is no other way to say it. And what makes it worse are the idiots doing the testing of new "features" who clearly don't take their meds or who have never seen, let alone used, an OS which doesn't get in your way every chance it gets. The best OS I have ever used was W2K. Fantastic stuff. Fast, simple to use, rock steady. It let you get work done and when you were done working, it let you play.
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Informative)
It drives me crazy that Microsoft shuffles around the UI for basic configuration items every release. I get used to stuff on XP, then Vista shuffles it around, I get used to W7, then W10 moves everything around. And none of it seems to be easier or faster to find. It's just moved for the sake of not having the GUI look the same as before.
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Insightful)
I've never understood why they did that. I try to lean to incompetence over malice, but it's hard.
What I can't handle at all it their newish "gray on slightly different gray" UI color scheme. I tried using Edge, and I cant read any of the UI text. WTF guys? I guess the war on contrast was not won by the good guys.
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The best OS I have ever used was W2K. Fantastic stuff. Fast, simple to use, rock steady. It let you get work done and when you were done working, it let you play.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have just enough experience with the scourge known as Windows 10 to agree with the rest of your comment. But that last part really resonates - my adoption of Linux was driven by the move from 2000 to XP. I've since learned how to make an XP system look and work substantially like 2000; but 2000 didn't require that fiddling - it was simply good and intuitive OOTB.
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Install ClassicShell. Problem solved.
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Interesting)
There's an actual scroll bar in Windows 10. But it requires a single mouse click or hovering your mouse to make it appear. I know that's asking a lot from you.
How is that better than just having the scroll bar just... be there? Like every other OS/program in existence. There use to be ZERO things to do to see the scroll bar. It's not an improvement.
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I'm not going to W10 since it's nothing but Clippy on double steroids, and Macs, well, you don't get what you pay for. That only leaves Linux.
Win2K Server was the last good version. Everything after that has been reskins of vista or "clippy on double steroids". There is hardly any philosophical difference between W7 and W10, other than the extra amount of low-level spyware (a.k.a telemetry).
But really, why both with W10. There is no killer feature to it for most of us (any of us?). Why do I have to upgrade all my shit on Microsoft's whim, when I struggle to justify the expense and time wasted?
If keeping those security updates going isn't covered
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It's easy to make Win7 look like W2K, with the extra bits that are actaully good, like the 2 notification icons you actually want to see. I use the server version of Win7 for most things, as there less garbage to disable than Win7, but it's otherwise the same.
Not sure what I want to do going forwards. I find the Ubuntu UI to be "Windows but worse", and I've grown to really hate it after a couple years of using it at work. Plus it has it's own spyware - just a little, but that's like just a little sewage
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My W7 machine runs perfectly
I was in that situation until recently. Then I decided it was time for a new CPU. Guess what - Windows 7 does not have drivers for the new CPUs, USB 3, etc. So if you ever want better than your Core i7 you are gong to be forced to upgrade. To be honest Windows 10 isn't as bad as I though it would be. You just have to turn the spyware/telemetry off for real (not Microsoft's fake "opt out" menu choices that don't actually opt you out), but there are plenty of websites that list how to do that.
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"Guess what - Windows 7 does not have drivers for the new CPUs, USB 3, etc."
My Dell desktop that came with Win7 works fine with USB3
and the Core I7is fast enough for me
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and the Core I7is fast enough for me
Today. But just wait a few years...
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Informative)
The hard part will be trying to find photo editing software, though even that may not be a big deal with Nikon dropping support for all of its third party repairs.
Darktable builds on Linux ( and I think is in most repos ), and superficially looks like Lightroom. The workflow is different, at least until you set up all the various plugins the way you want, but you can get just as good of results as Lightroom, unless you rely super heavily on presets made specifically for LR. I don't remember if they were working on a LR plugin layer or not, but I thought they were.
All in all, I still prefer LR, just because it's what I'm used to using on both Win and Mac, but Darktable would be a serious contender if I had to go Linux only.
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Indeed. I will move gaming to Win10 (not all I want is available on Linux) and a will keep a Win10 VM for MS Office. Everything else will go to Linux.
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The last time Kubuntu crashed on me was... too many years ago to remember, if you don't count power outages. If you're experiencing crashes, you've probably got some sort of severely broken proprietary driver and your computer should be consider incompatible.
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:4, Interesting)
I suspect but can't prove that it's the nVidia driver dying on wake from sleep. haven't had time to pin it down though. I'm just a modest programmer, not a hacker by any stretch of the imagination, so diving in to the guts of a video driver isn't an option for me. I just need it to work, and that's my dichotomy now. 18 works great but won't run the gnuradio plugins I need, and 19 runs gnuradio like a boss but crashes on the video driver (or whatever it is). I'm not in a position to judge for anybody else, but for me there's no win (for the record, Windows doesn't run the gnuradio stuff I want either) Maybe I should try Kubuntu, but there's a limit to how much time I can spend tinkering, and the last thing I need is 20 different line items on the boot manager to pick from. How do I explain to my kids which one to pick to do their school work?
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For those relatively new to Linux, it's been a loooonng time since I couldn't find the solution to an *ubuntu issue with a google search of roughly " *buntu(version) (problem descrip) on (hardware descrip) "
Bleeding edge or faulty hardware is likely the most common problem maker and I doubt Microsoft handles it much better than Linux.
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I reject any and all arguments that require an end user to open a terminal, type sudo, apt, apt-get, or any other command line update code. I'm sorry but microsoft and apple both (despite their other shortcomings) long ago abandoned making basic users do that to install or fix software. The bar has not been set very high in my opinion, and Linux is close to getting there, but they're still not there. Google a fix for any problem you have and I'd bet 9/10 solutions will direct you to the terminal. I can
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You can actually install pretty much anything you could want with a graphical interface in Linux now, but solving problems that have a straightforward solution usually is faster when you can simply copy/paste something into a command line. You'll find that many fixes for Windows now rely on Powershell for simplicity because it's just easier to tell someone to "copy/paste this into Powershell" than starting a lengthy "Open control panel - system (screenshot), then double click on services (screenshot)..."
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Also, it's a Dell Insprion laptop that's around 4 years old, and I think it's on Cannonical's supported device list. nVidia card is a 940MX... In all, not a crazy new unsupported device. Basic laptop computer as far as I'm concerned.
Re: Time to switch to Linux then (Score:2)
I had Linux crashing die to a memory issue with my Ryzen proc and 3200mhz memory and a poor motherboard. Bought a new board and hasn't crashed since.. many months uptime.
I run Linux on several more machines/laptops and have never had a crash.
Agree (Score:3)
The EOL of Windows 7 is what motivated me to make the switch to Linux for my home PC (I really hate windows 10, and have to use it at work unfortunately, but not at home!).
My pick was Fedora for various reasons. And I am running plenty of games on it, in fact. But it took way too much of my technical capabilities to get it all working and to troubleshoot it. I can see why a non-technical user wouldn't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Maybe it is better this way. When systems become too popular, they
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Are you able to install Steam on Ubuntu 18.10 LTS?
Under Ubuntu 19.10 it installs just fine but no dice on 18.10 LTS. (Apt-get complains about missing dependencies. I've tried the usual solutions on various webpages but I can't get the dependency problem figured out. Might try re-installing 18.10 LTS to see if it a GPU driver problem.)
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I'm running Lubuntu on an old Macbook Pro. Works fine. Doesn't crash. Ever. All the hardware just works (no driver issues). And Apple don't exactly play nice with people who want to install anything other than their own OS' on their hardware. One problem is the lack of hardware optimisation for video playback because Apple deliberately prevent other OS' from doing that, so it runs a bit hotter & with shorter battery life than it should. In contrast, Win7 barely works on it; lots of missing drivers, gets
Re:Time to switch to Linux then (Score:5, Interesting)
I cant even count the amount of false FUD narratives in this comment... Microsoft reversed policy many MANY years ago on piracy and decided that securing the machines was more important than forcing licensing, due to company and brand image. Pirated copies of Windows 7 get full updates (up until Win7 loses all support, more than a decade after launch). LTS support from other companies are usually in the order of 5-8 years, so MS doing 10+ years is far better than others. Also, on the note of piracy, Microsoft was ignoring licensing and giving free upgrades to Windows 10 regardless of if the existing install was pirated or not, and pirated copies of 7 even today can still upgrade to 10 for free just by using Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to handle the upgrade.
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The move to the cloud will take care of the piracy issue.
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I cant even count the amount of false FUD narratives in this comment...
It might be difficult, but please give it a try - the comment isn't that long, and I'd really like to know specifically how many instances of FUD you think it contains.
Microsoft was ignoring licensing and giving free upgrades to Windows 10 regardless of if the existing install was pirated or not
I have no doubt whatsoever that Microsoft's push for Windows 10 adoption is driven in part by legitimate concerns about security. That concern certainly DOES NOT justify the sleazy tactics they used to trick users into switching, never mind the 'upgrades' that were forced against users' explicit and repeated wishes to the contrary. And when y
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force users to register for updates, which is at least more difficult, if not impossible, to do if you have a "pirated" or unlicensed/unregistered copy.
You're doing it wrong.
Your vendor at work (Score:5, Insightful)
Microsoft has always been a tone-deaf bully. Releasing PR that says you're going to "agressively" hassle your customers doesn't change that.
Isn't it great when your vendor is going to "agressively" push to make you upgrade your product.
I can't wait for Comcast to "agressively" tell me I need 1 Gbps, and put out a press release ahead of time saying "We think 100Mbps is obsolete, and we're now telling everyone to upgrade."
Maybe my gas station will "agressively" email me to stop buying 91 octane gasoline and go for 93.
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Re: Your vendor at work (Score:2)
Isnt windows 10 free? I know for a while they were giving the shit away.
Re: Your vendor at work (Score:2)
Nope, that was a limited time offer.. hasn't been free for over a year.
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The Win 7 to Win 10 downgrade/upgrade is still free, something which makes your Comcast and gas station analogies rather irrelevant.
In some ways Win 10 is actually better than Win 7, unfortunately there are three big drawbacks:
- Win 10 is so ugly, Win 7 is simply easier to use.
- this whole "forced update" thing, although it is not as bad as it was.
- All your secrets belong to us.
There may be more drawbacks but I can't think of any offhand. I have been "stuck" on Win 7 because of two programs - the reasons
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The Win 7 to Win 10 downgrade/upgrade is still free,.
It is? Since when? That giveaway ended after the first year that Windows 10 came out.
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https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11... [ghacks.net]
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"I have been "stuck" on Win 7 because of two programs"
What 2 16-bit WIMP-on-DOS programs have this problem ... certainly no properly written 32-bit or 64-bit Windows native software does -- unless it was built using Microsoft Fly-by-Night technologies (in which case this should expected). I have 32-bit native Windows apps from the turn-of-the-century that still work just fine on Windows 10 -- and I would expect them to keep working forever unless the Win32 API changes -- and it has not changed for decades
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Re: Your vendor at work (Score:2)
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I anticipate a lot of work out of this. My customers are going to call and ask how to stop the "aggressive" full-page nag screen.
I will tell them that I can disable the nag, but they really should consider upgrading (including hardware, if necessary), but if they choose not to upgrade, then they'll need a serious anti-malware suite (and no, not Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, AVG, Avast, or any of the other crappy items - I'll probably recommend eset or Malwarebytes). I'll also tell them that it's risky.
Or I
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If we don't tolerate kids who haven't got their vaccinations at school we shouldn't tolerate vaccinated computers on our internet.
Be careful what you wish for. It's a good bet that you use several bits of software that are far more likely to be compromised than the Windows 7 machines we use behind several layers of security. For example, if you're running Windows 10, you can't prevent malware that spams you with irritating messages from installing without circumventing the normal operation and support structure of your OS, while we can do that just fine and will never see these "aggressive adverts".
EO Snotify (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one who read that executable as EO Snotify? Seems appropriate, anyway.
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Funny (Score:5, Insightful)
So Microsoft? Kiss my ass. Spend more time on fixing your turd of an operating system, and less on nagging.
Re:Funny (Score:5, Funny)
Well, OBVIOUSLY your programs were doing DANGEROUS things like, well, WORKING before, and had to be STOPPED for your SAFETY!
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Well, OBVIOUSLY your programs were doing DANGEROUS things like, well, WORKING before, and had to be STOPPED for your SAFETY!
It's sad, but that's about where we are.
Re: Funny (Score:2)
Its sounds like either A) Local Government or B) Public school systems these days.
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Its sounds like either A) Local Government or B) Public school systems these days.
Ironic, considering A) Microsoft is a private company, and B) it's the private "charter" schools that we find are scamming kids and parents and stealing money.
It's the apps, stupid! (Score:5, Insightful)
I think that most people who use Windows 7 don't do it because they are stubborn. They do it for a very important, specific reason.
That reason is an application, or hardware or a combination of the two that never had any support on Windows 10, but which has its uses.
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I was actually looking forward to Windows 10 when it was under development. I decided to stick with Windows 7 after learning about Microsoft's "telemetery" that could not be switched off.
I have the same position headed into January. If I can't turn telemetery off completely, then I will not install Windows 10. They can spy on all the sheep they can find, but I won't be one of them.
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Windows 7 updates have included telemetry.
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Windows 7 updates have included telemetry.
Which savvy users could easily block by not installing certain updates. But the Windows 7 telemetry updates were obviously foreboding of what was to come.
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But in Windows 7 you didn't have to install them...
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in elden days they probably had more robust testing and QA to .. you know, catch these things rather than using their customers as guinea pigs.
Or you know, people coudl opt in, or send a crash report after the fact. What rubs people the wrong way is the lack of choice involved in many of the w10 design decisions (namely updates and telemetry)
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Well, in my case I just have a net connection that's bad enough I can't afford the bandwidth for Win10's 'features' like not letting me choose when to run updates and showing ads for programs I totally need in the Start menu.
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but which has its uses.
As long as that use is not on an internet facing machine then more power to them. But the world is enough of a cesspool of malware without even more vaccinated users travelling to foreign countries and bringing home diseases. Wait did I get my stories crossed?
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I think that most people who use Windows 7 don't do it because they are stubborn. They do it for a very important, specific reason
Yes, and that reason is telemetry you can't disable. I can avoid telemetry on Win7 with remove_crw after installing updates, but you can't avoid it on Win10. Even if I weren't concerned about privacy issues, I still wouldn't want the excess network activity.
I'm pretty sure everything I want to run either already won't run on Win7 so I run it in a WinXP VM[ware], or will run on Win10. But fuck Win10. Win7 will be my last windows, and I will put it in a VM and go back to running Linux on the bare metal when i
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For the vast majority of people on 7, I'd wager it's because the computer does what they want it to do (browsing, email, solitaire, online banking). It's basically an appliance. These Luddites are the same types who wouldn't upgrade a perfectly functioning toaster just because there's a new one out there with an iOS app that lets you finely tune the temperature and level of toastiness. (utter and complete savages)
Also is the risk of malware really that great? (assuming you don't treat un-solicited email a
To paraphrase an old forum .sig: (Score:5, Insightful)
"It said to install Windows 10 or better. So I installed Linux."
(Which is very likely the upgrade path the missus' Win7 laptop will be following.)
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MS-DOS 6 offered to "upgrade" my OS/2 installation.
Azure affected? (Score:2)
So does running the image on Azure (with 'free' extended support) simply set a registry key that tells this stupid program not to run?
Fuck off Microsoft ! (Score:3, Insightful)
If I didn't want to downgrade to your spyware shit back then I certainly don't want it now!
I've already upgraded my i7 4770K on Windows 7 to a Threadripper 1920X (soon to be 3960X) on Linux. If Steam games don't work under Linux then I'm not really interested. As I get older I find I have less time for gaming. This is also no big deal since Minecraft is playable on my Windows, Mac, and Linux computers anyways.
Can we send a letter to Microsoft?
Dear Microsoft,
If you can't even respect my choice then I can't respect your forced BULLSHIT.
Now kindly please FUCK OFF.
Signed,
Techies of the Internet.
Re: Fuck off Microsoft ! (Score:2)
PC Gaming Loop (Score:3)
I've been out of the PC gaming loop for a very long time. The most recent game for me was Unreal Tournament 2004 and that was mostly to play the Unwheel racing mod.
How is PC gaming nowadays? Are any of the titles still worth sticking with M$, and do the more popular ones run under Linux?
Yes, many modern games are worth a whirl. At least, more modern than unreal 2004 with a racing mod.
Codemasters has done wonders on F1 racing Sims, so has done Forza Horizon and others. Also, you may like Rocket league, think football (not the hand-ovoid they play in the USoA) but with cars instead of people.
Other worthy (IMO) titles are the two portals (and all the mods), the firts two batmans in the Arkham series, soma, and left4dead2 (and em mods).
In the linux front, valve used the mac world to jumpstart
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PC gaming is in a really good spot. The games industry as a whole is heavily involved in shitty MTX (micro-transactions) so I'll ignore THAT topic but overall we have some really great games, especially if you are into the hardcore sim racing scene.
We are being subjected to less and less shitty console ports -- the ports are slowly getting better when you aren't running into 30 fps frame locked games, or crappy performance for having too MANY cores! (/me glares at GTA5, RDR2). PC master race at 4K 60 fps is
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A sig I saw once (Score:2)
Planned obsolescence. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm still waiting for OS/3 (Score:2)
Windows 10 is still a significant downgrade (Score:5, Insightful)
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Indexing service kept punching my Win7 performance in the nuts by indexing even when my machine was busy, so I switched to searching with Everything. It's vastly better than the native search.
The reason I don't like Windows 10... (Score:2)
If Microsoft designed my car, then tomorrow morning, I'd get in my car, go to start it, and the ignition button wouldn't be there. I would have to spend five minutes trying to figure out how to start my car. Eventually, I would figure out that the ignition button is now in the glove box. Once I got my car started, I'd notice that there are no longer any pedals. I'd look at the steering wheel, and see that there is now a thumb-operated throttle and a hand-operated brake. The speedometer would be in KPH
Poor Microsoft users... (Score:4, Insightful)
...they have all the symptoms of the abused member of a dysfunctional relationship. Not much they say matters, Microsoft is unquestionably in charge. They are warned that they likely could not function in another relationship(unless MS supervises it). Their needs are completely secondary to Microsoft's needs.
Anyone else see the similarities?
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Well, end of January, I will have a gaming machine on Win10 and a win10 VM for MS Office on my laptop on top of Linux and that will be it with MS platforms. Only gaming-related web-surfing on that Win10 machine, everything else including email goes to Linux. (Yes, I know, I already use LibreOffice for all my own documents, but I need MS Office for work. I have a "bring your own workstation and server" deal here. It is a small company.)
This should be illegal (Score:4, Insightful)
I find it fascinating companies believe they can throw out defective unsafe products that place end users at unnecessary peril and then arbitrarily absolve themselves of any and all responsibility for them.
Instead of companies being thankful their end users tolerate the parade of never ending streams of updates to fix problems that should have NEVER EXISTED in the first place companies turn around and use the fact that their products are inherently defective and unsafe for purpose as a weapon to compel people to take action which further enriches the company.
This behavior is fundamentally wrong and if not illegal it should be.
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I agree. The only reason there need to be security updates at all is because MS delivered a defective product and has still not fully fixed it. While I do understand that they cannot actually do that, as long as they create security fixes, I think they should be legally obligated to distribute them to all users and at no cost to private users. (I am fine with billing businesses.) After all, these are _their_ screw-ups they are fixing.
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So Ford still provides safety enhancements for your P.O.S. Pinto free of charge?
My P.O.S was manufactured in the late 90's and I'm still getting recall notices for it and yes the work is free of charge.
How often does Rheem provide you with free replacements of your hot water heater?
If the hot water heater has a defect that causes it to explode or turn into a missile you better believe the very least Rheem would do is provide me with a free replacement.
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I do think that Microsoft should focus on security and stability a bit more than they currently do, but expecting perfect software that never needs updates doesn't seem realistic to me.
Yep! Just have to have everyone (Score:2)
Just my 2 cents
Which KB Number Do I BLock? (Score:2)
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https://gist.github.com/xvital... [github.com]
I saw the Windows 10 ads and website (Score:3)
They pushed very hard that I need to buy a new computer.
I have an overclocked i3-6100 with 32 GB of RAM and a GeForce 1070 Ti. My current games play just fine on it. I have so many unplayed games from years of Steam sales that I'm not likely to get around to any bleeding edge games for many years.
I'm not looking to buy a new computer, so I'll stick with Windows 7 if that's my only choice. (and dual boot Linux for an easy "upgrade" path, easier than Win10 at least). Other than my games library, what else do I want run? A web browser, a compiler, a text editor. Nothing that strictly needs Windows 10.
Just sayin' (Score:2)
Win10 on our office's systems.
2 updates in 2 days.
EACH of them broke different crap.
Yeah.
I got a brutally honest one 3 weeks ago (Score:2)
The notice from MS said if my notebook was more than 3 years old, consider getting a new one with Windows 10 already on it. It was great advice.
Damned if they do... (Score:2)
(consumer) Windows 7 won't be receiving security updates past that point, and every unsecured windows 7 pc on the internet is a liability for everyone else. Without critical security updates, it's just a matter of time before that 'perfectly fine' windows 7 pc becomes a spam relay, part of a botnet, bitcoin miner, or some other garbage that will cause problems and/or annoyance for everyone else who does stay current on their security updates.
If you haven't upgraded from windo
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> No emojis support
That's a feature!
For everything else, there are HTML character elements: ä
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It's weird what is and is not supported though, like you can have a Æ but not an OE ligature for French or you can have a ç but not an S with cedilla for Turkish. No inverted question mark for Spanish, no L bar for Polish, no thorn or eth for Icelandic.
It'd be nice to have them and be able to input them without looking up a code, but it's a small price to pay if it keeps out the damne
Re: Your Slashdot comments are out of support (Score:5, Insightful)
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I know I desperately want the smiling poo icon. Life just seems unbearable without it.
Virtual Retirement Home (Score:2)
Well the nice thing about virtualization is that everyone can walk away happy. There's no "superior", just different size boxes everything is being kept in. Even gamers which are a fickle lot can be happy, courtesy of ever more capable hardware at ever cheaper prices.
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