Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (2)

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Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3449 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 2055775 - Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 14:18:19 UTC 25 years ago today... Microsoft Windows has come a long way in many ways but still nothing changes in others... Today is Windows 95 Debut Day! On this day in 1995, Windows 95 made its presence known. Codenamed Chicago, Windows 95 integrated Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products. It featured significant improvements over its predecessor, Windows 3.1, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its relatively simplified "plug-n-play" features. Wow, what a memory! LOL ID: 2055775 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3449 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 2055779 - Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 16:54:43 UTC Last modified: 24 Aug 2020, 16:56:41 UTC https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-older-windows-10-versions-now-get-to-run-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2/ Support for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) distros is being made available to Windows 10 versions 1909 and 1903. ID: 2055779 · Reply Quote

Sirius B Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24929 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7	Message 2056210 - Posted: 31 Aug 2020, 23:57:05 UTC - in response to Message 2055224. Last modified: 31 Aug 2020, 23:59:22 UTC Thanks for info. I hate Win10 Photos too, but want to run alternative photo viewer... and still can't re-wire jpeg extension to it. jpg goes to my viewer but jpeg goes to Photo app that completely broken on that netbook. So had to rename files :/ I've used a tweak program since the days of XP (TweakXP}. Windows has always had a few things that niggled me that I dislike but Tweak took care of them. Winaero Tweaker for Win 10 took care of Win 10. That is until I restarted rig yesterday afternoon & found many of those niggles back. It updated to version 2004. :-( Winaero took care of them. Only remaining problem now is to get back my the 2 gadgets I used. Clock & Calendar. MS disabled widgets for security reasons, understandable. What is not understandable is WHY do they have Widgets HD available in the MS Store (& a crap version at that)? Edited to fix url. ID: 2056210 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3449 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 2056257 - Posted: 1 Sep 2020, 18:52:54 UTC Has Micro$aft finally woke up and smelled the burning electrons? Windows 10 Update Schedule Could Change Microsoft is reportedly planning to only have one major update to Windows 10 next year. It could be a permanent switch and appears inspired by requests to have Microsoft spend more time testing updates before releasing it to the public. ... However, inside sources suggest the April/May update won't just be delayed, but will instead be the only such big update for Windows 10 in 2021. ID: 2056257 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21701 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2056268 - Posted: 2 Sep 2020, 0:19:03 UTC - in response to Message 2056257. Last modified: 2 Sep 2020, 0:21:09 UTC And here's a BIG Marketing question for what upsets users the most: Sneaky small insidious incremental changes that Marketing hope noone will notice... Or Big Bang occasional big changes that have to be prepared for and Marketed? My own observations have been consistently that the small sneaky changes just lead everyone to assume that Microsoft is always broken and an always confusing mess! How do we instead gain usable and productive stability? Disable all the Marketing??... IT is what we allow it to be... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2056268 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3449 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 2056410 - Posted: 4 Sep 2020, 4:23:02 UTC Windows 10 Bug Could Strain Hard Drives Microsoft is testing a fix for a bug that could theoretically shorten the lifespan of some hard drives. The bug means Windows 10 was mistakenly running the defrag tool more frequently than designed. ID: 2056410 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21701 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2056467 - Posted: 4 Sep 2020, 16:23:51 UTC - in response to Message 2056410. Last modified: 4 Sep 2020, 16:24:43 UTC Windows 10 Bug Could Strain Hard Drives Microsoft is testing a fix for a bug that could theoretically shorten the lifespan of some hard drives. The bug means Windows 10 was mistakenly running the defrag tool more frequently than designed. Wow! I thought defragging was the bane of the FAT filesystems from the 1990's... Have we not since moved onto radically more modern journaling filesystems that have long since consigned that historical chore to the bit bucket? (Aside: Scarily, yet another version of NTFS is currently being added into the Linux kernel!...) Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2056467 · Reply Quote

Cameron Send message Joined: 27 Nov 02 Posts: 110 Credit: 5,082,471 RAC: 17	Message 2056500 - Posted: 5 Sep 2020, 3:43:23 UTC I'm still on 1909 and I'm getting the periodic reminder about the MS account "benefits". I'm quite happy not backing up my harddrive to the cloud, or linking my phone, or using the office suite as a service. wondering if there is a way to disable this periodic reminder. ID: 2056500 · Reply Quote

Tom M Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462	Message 2056563 - Posted: 6 Sep 2020, 13:56:56 UTC - in response to Message 2056500. I'm still on 1909 and I'm getting the periodic reminder about the MS account "benefits". I'm quite happy not backing up my harddrive to the cloud, or linking my phone, or using the office suite as a service. wondering if there is a way to disable this periodic reminder. Look for "tips" and turn it off in the settings. That might help. Tom M A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). ID: 2056563 · Reply Quote

Cameron Send message Joined: 27 Nov 02 Posts: 110 Credit: 5,082,471 RAC: 17	Message 2056608 - Posted: 7 Sep 2020, 7:09:11 UTC - in response to Message 2056563. Thanks looks like it's Windows Welcome Experience. ID: 2056608 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3449 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 2056808 - Posted: 10 Sep 2020, 19:21:24 UTC Windows 10 update reportedly kills Linux support Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 gets struck by ‘element not found’ error As seems to be the case all too often these days, however, the update gives a fix with one hand, and removes something with the other – at least for some users – and in this case, some of those trying to fire up WSL2 are getting an ‘element not found’ error. ... Sadly, the only solution to this problem at the moment – and it’s not really a workaround as such – is to uninstall KB4571756... ID: 2056808 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21701 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2057759 - Posted: 27 Sep 2020, 1:07:39 UTC Last modified: 27 Sep 2020, 1:23:19 UTC For those long claiming that 'obscurity' and 'proprietary' and secrecy' are somehow 'good' to somehow ensure some sort of security... Think again?... ... The source code for Windows XP and other elderly Microsoft operating systems appears to have leaked online... Note that there is a lot in there that is still current and in use today. Is not "secure by design" and "open peer review" a far better way to go?... Looks like Microsoft has to go "Open Source" all the way with this! (Dread to think what dubious comments there 'might' be in that unsanitized code!!) IT is what we make it... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2057759 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21701 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2057760 - Posted: 27 Sep 2020, 1:13:45 UTC Last modified: 27 Sep 2020, 1:22:38 UTC Is this the last of the extreme exclamations? Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release {their Edge} browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology wrote: This means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it? Hell really has frozen over!!!??? The long forgotten skeletal spectral influence of Netscape is still haunting the web?... Have the Microsoft people read Good Omens by any chance?!... Gobsmacked! IT is what we make it! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2057760 · Reply Quote

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873	Message 2057860 - Posted: 28 Sep 2020, 20:30:14 UTC Last modified: 28 Sep 2020, 20:32:35 UTC Windows will become an emulation layer on Linux kernel. Interesting commentary, especially the finance side of Windows development. Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) ID: 2057860 · Reply Quote

Tom M Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462	Message 2058292 - Posted: 4 Oct 2020, 16:16:28 UTC - in response to Message 2057860. Windows will become an emulation layer on Linux kernel. Interesting commentary, especially the finance side of Windows development. Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond It won't work unless a lot of native Windows apps that people "have to have" are ported over/upgraded... Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). ID: 2058292 · Reply Quote

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873	Message 2058296 - Posted: 4 Oct 2020, 16:26:18 UTC - in response to Message 2058292. Windows will become an emulation layer on Linux kernel. Interesting commentary, especially the finance side of Windows development. Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond It won't work unless a lot of native Windows apps that people "have to have" are ported over/upgraded... Tom That is what Wine and Proton are for. No need to port any apps. Just run your existing Windows apps. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) ID: 2058296 · Reply Quote

Tom M Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462	Message 2058297 - Posted: 4 Oct 2020, 16:29:39 UTC - in response to Message 2058296. Windows will become an emulation layer on Linux kernel. Interesting commentary, especially the finance side of Windows development. Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond It won't work unless a lot of native Windows apps that people "have to have" are ported over/upgraded... Tom That is what Wine and Proton are for. No need to port any apps. Just run your existing Windows apps. I have seen reports that Wine is not able to run "everything." Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). ID: 2058297 · Reply Quote

rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22765 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 2058303 - Posted: 4 Oct 2020, 17:26:55 UTC WINE publishes a list of applications that will run. There are a number of applications that will run out of the box, some need a bit of fiddling, and others just won't Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 2058303 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3449 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 2059905 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 15:22:30 UTC Micro$h1t is at it again forcing crap on your PC with out permission because they know better than you or what is best for everyone. Windows 10 Brings MS Office Start Menu Surprise Microsoft has added links to Office web apps on Windows 10 computers without asking permission. It's more of an irritation than a damaging problem, but it's certainly safe to say some folks are irritated . ID: 2059905 · Reply Quote

Sirius B Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24929 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7	Message 2059929 - Posted: 23 Oct 2020, 22:36:28 UTC - in response to Message 2059905. Hmm, link shows post was 20/10/20. That has been on Win 10 v1909 (Well at least since I installed Win 10 in March this year). ID: 2059929 · Reply Quote

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