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Hacker prank simulator fire12/16/2023 ![]() ![]() However, I have not encountered the following, which has so far twice happened in Windows 10: Some hexadecimal error number that IT doesn't know about, Microsoft denies would ever happen, and the anecdotal discussions on the internet offer 10 different kinds of voodoo that will fix it for sure, except that none of them do (you can tell just from the number of different things they tell you to try). Or if you try to use a Bluetooth headset. Or when the multiseat setup that I use is casually broken by update to the gdm greeter, with no plans to fix it again (luckily lightdm works). Such as when the binary Brother scanner driver installs without any missing dependencies, and only much googling finds that you need to install some 32 bit libraries that it doesn't mention not being able to open. Her Windows XP machine is in the process of giving up the ghost after all these years and while I had her half converted to Linux/Mate, the Windows 10 machine is just more convenient, mostly because it is faster than my leftover laptops.Ī complex Linux setup - I run a 3-seat multiuser setup on a massive old gaming box that uses too much power constantly to be worth running otherwise - can certainly deliver bang-your-head-against-the-wall frustration. And using zero bytes per month that weren't asked for.īack to the Windows XP topic. Opinions vary on the wisdom of this, but it is of course behind a NAT firewall with all unnecessary services turned off. not only not auto update, but not even download the updates and not even constantly download the index of available updates. Here Linux wins again in an old school way - it took some serious tweaking under the hood to get it to not consume data constantly i.e. Where, with her limited habits, she used to use around 500MB of data per month (email and very light browsing) she now comes in at 2.5-3GB, forcing a higher tier of mobile data (she's on an LTE gateway - lives in the countryside). But my mom was recently given a Windows 10 machine, and I set it to be as scrimpy with data as I could ("metered connection" and the last aggressive updates). Windows 10 works pretty well - I have it on my work machine. In my personal opinion, too, the high point of Windows was Windows 7 since it first came with all the common device drivers so stuff would "just work" without the driver hunt dance. Most gadgets "just work" in Linux now too, the desktop environment is great (and here I refer to Mate, not the ongoing experiment that is Gnome 3), and the whole thing mostly just serves as a device driver for a web browser anyway. And of course a lot of web sites only worked on IE6 which looked poised to take over the way Chrome has now. For example, if you wanted to use Garmin mapping software to download from your GPS, or use most printers, scanners, webcams. Where Windows won out at the time is that no end of essential proprietary software ran only on it (or perhaps also on Mac OS) and Linux was locked out. So in that respect it was definitely great. As a free hobby version it was already very desirable, and it was in the process of acquiring the performance and reliability that ultimately made it displace all the existing Unixes. In those days, the basis of comparison for Linux was established Unixes, first and foremost Solaris. ![]()
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