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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
On 2015-10-28 6:22 PM, Linux User wrote:
Yahhh! We are using ubuntu now and it is wonderful. ROFL! I tried Ubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME 15.10's live CD on this MSI GT72 laptop of mine; it wouldn't even boot to the desktop whether I used the GTX 970M or the Intel HD 4600 on the machine. That's Linux quality right there. -- Charmed Tuna |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
Charmed Tuna wrote:
On 2015-10-28 6:22 PM, Linux User wrote: Yahhh! We are using ubuntu now and it is wonderful. ROFL! I tried Ubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME 15.10's live CD on this MSI GT72 laptop of mine; it wouldn't even boot to the desktop whether I used the GTX 970M or the Intel HD 4600 on the machine. That's Linux quality right there. A machine with Optimus (video architecture, two GPUs, gamer GPU takes over for heavy 3D acceleration) is difficult both on Windows and Linux. Example of a recipe, here. https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2296761 ) You can suffer just as much misery in Windows. For example, when Win10 came out, Optimus laptops were one of the things "blocked" from getting the free Win10 update. Paul |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
Charmed Tuna wrote on 10/28/2015 8:17 PM:
On 2015-10-28 6:22 PM, Linux User wrote: Yahhh! We are using ubuntu now and it is wonderful. ROFL! I tried Ubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME 15.10's live CD on this MSI GT72 laptop of mine; it wouldn't even boot to the desktop whether I used the GTX 970M or the Intel HD 4600 on the machine. That's Linux quality right there. I'm a market-share as well as a technology kinda guy. Well, and usability and supportability advocate. Linux? No, don't think so in any aspect. Tried it, used it, unimpressed. Techie (which I like!) but impenetrable (which, for my supported users, a dead deal.). It's a niche market as the penetration has proven over the last ten or more years. Have fun all you users but it'll NEVER be mainstream. It's been around for, what? ten? Fifteen years? And it's where, market-share wise? Nowhere. Call any (major or minor) PC manufacturer and ask them what the overwhelming percentage of OS's they install on new machines. It's Windows. Apple is a distant second. Linux? Is anyone installing Linux in any significant numbers as a default? No. Wal-Mart toyed with it for a brief time. Well, that didn't make them any money so they stopped. Hey, if you like playing with it? I'm all supportive of your experiment. Just don't think you are mainstream. You're not. And whenever I see, in any usenet group, a message subject that includes "Linux" I mark it as "read" and move one. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
-= Hawk =- wrote on 10/28/2015 2:14 PM:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:13:40 -0400, "Andy" scribbled: Belongs in alt.windows7.general news group not windows 10 this is for windows 10 posts only thank you And how the hell do you plan on enforcing this imaginary power you do not have, ****tard? Just shut the **** up and mop a floor somewhere. Wow. that just ensured I'll ignore you forever. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Everybody repeat after me ...We are all individuals. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
On 2015-10-27 1:23 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7" http://www.zdnet.com/article/dear-mi...ood-windows-7/ Amen! Lynn I think I have found a solution. Win10 is the natural OS platform on modern powerful equipment. I installed Oracle VirtualBox on my Win10 device. On that I installed WinXP and all shorts of great software. WinXP is great on Win10. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
On 29/10/2015 03:44, Norm X wrote:
WinXP is great on Win10. You are a very clever little stupid nutter around here. Stan Brown and Canadian "Small boys" abuser would be proud of you. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7"
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:28:22 -0400, Big Al wrote
in I've turned off most if not all the telemetry I can find and don't need. Which is probably 100%. :-) Are you using ShutUp10? http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7"
I'll correct a miss poster's post and give the proper news group any time i
wish. -- AL'S COMPUTERS "-= Hawk =-" wrote in message web.com... On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:13:40 -0400, "Andy" scribbled: Belongs in alt.windows7.general news group not windows 10 this is for windows 10 posts only thank you And how the hell do you plan on enforcing this imaginary power you do not have, ****tard? Just shut the **** up and mop a floor somewhere. -- 'What Profiteth It A Kingdom If The Oxen Be Deflated?' Riddles II, v3 - T. Pratchett |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7"
He is one of the oldest trolls in any news group be it windows road runner
ect you name it. -- AL'S COMPUTERS "Ed Mullen" wrote in message ... -= Hawk =- wrote on 10/28/2015 2:14 PM: On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:13:40 -0400, "Andy" scribbled: Belongs in alt.windows7.general news group not windows 10 this is for windows 10 posts only thank you And how the hell do you plan on enforcing this imaginary power you do not have, ****tard? Just shut the **** up and mop a floor somewhere. Wow. that just ensured I'll ignore you forever. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Everybody repeat after me ...We are all individuals. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7"
Says a women who can hardly even fix her own stuff
-- AL'S COMPUTERS "Char Jackson" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:13:40 -0400, "Andy" wrote: Belongs in alt.windows7.general news group not windows 10 this is for windows 10 posts only thank you I see that someone forgot to lock the office at the mall again. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7"
You do realize you can run windows xp or windows 7 ect in a Vm environment.
-- AL'S COMPUTERS "Good Guy" wrote in message ... On 29/10/2015 03:44, Norm X wrote: WinXP is great on Win10. You are a very clever little stupid nutter around here. Stan Brown and Canadian "Small boys" abuser would be proud of you. |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
On 10/28/2015 11:22 PM, CRNG wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:28:22 -0400, Big Al wrote in I've turned off most if not all the telemetry I can find and don't need. Which is probably 100%. :-) Are you using ShutUp10? http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 Does that modify the hosts file? It's very easy to do/undo. http://www.sysprobs.com/how-to-edit-...-windows-8-1-8 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r302...s-to-host-file https://www.astaro.org/gateway-produ...10-spying.html |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
Mike S wrote:
On 10/28/2015 11:22 PM, CRNG wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:28:22 -0400, Big Al wrote in I've turned off most if not all the telemetry I can find and don't need. Which is probably 100%. :-) Are you using ShutUp10? http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 Does that modify the hosts file? It's very easy to do/undo. http://www.sysprobs.com/how-to-edit-...-windows-8-1-8 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r302...s-to-host-file https://www.astaro.org/gateway-produ...10-spying.html It should not need to modify the HOSTS file. Many of those settings just adjust something in the Registry. The problem with HOSTS, is the OS has a list of whitelisted sites you cannot stop with HOSTS. So it's rather pointless to try to use the HOSTS file to stop Microsoft. HOSTS might be perfectly adequate to stop DoubleClick or Facebook. But Microsoft made sure a trivial setting in HOSTS will not prevent the "Microsoft mission". Paul |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
On 2015-10-28 10:32 PM, Ed Mullen wrote:
Charmed Tuna wrote on 10/28/2015 8:17 PM: On 2015-10-28 6:22 PM, Linux User wrote: Yahhh! We are using ubuntu now and it is wonderful. ROFL! I tried Ubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME 15.10's live CD on this MSI GT72 laptop of mine; it wouldn't even boot to the desktop whether I used the GTX 970M or the Intel HD 4600 on the machine. That's Linux quality right there. I'm a market-share as well as a technology kinda guy. Well, and usability and supportability advocate. Linux? No, don't think so in any aspect. Tried it, used it, unimpressed. Techie (which I like!) but impenetrable (which, for my supported users, a dead deal.). It's a niche market as the penetration has proven over the last ten or more years. Have fun all you users but it'll NEVER be mainstream. It's been around for, what? ten? Fifteen years? And it's where, market-share wise? Nowhere. It's been around for longer than that. I believe that the first Linux distributions appeared in 1992. I remember trying it out in 1994 myself. Call any (major or minor) PC manufacturer and ask them what the overwhelming percentage of OS's they install on new machines. It's Windows. Apple is a distant second. Linux? Is anyone installing Linux in any significant numbers as a default? No. The Linux advocates will tell you that it's on most of the servers on the Internet. In reality, Windows and Linux are on about the same amount. I believe that the last numbers were 34% for Linux and 32% for Windows. Wal-Mart toyed with it for a brief time. Well, that didn't make them any money so they stopped. Hey, if you like playing with it? I'm all supportive of your experiment. Just don't think you are mainstream. You're not. And whenever I see, in any usenet group, a message subject that includes "Linux" I mark it as "read" and move one. As you should. I don't mind supporting free software projects myself but a whole operating system made of free software, so far, has been disastrous. -- Charmed Tuna |
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"Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows7"
On 2015-10-29 8:37 AM, David Hume wrote:
Charmed Tuna writes: As you should. I don't mind supporting free software projects myself but a whole operating system made of free software, so far, has been disastrous. When you say free, do you mean free or open? Not that it matters much. Anyway, I use opensuse every day for pretty much anything I want to do. The only way anyone could describe it as a disaster is if he had never used it and didn't know anything about it. I know very well how Linux works and can operate in a number of distributions without problems... as long as they work. Nowadays, it seems that fewer and fewer actually work properly. It might be because this laptop makes use of UEFI, but it shouldn't be a problem at all. As for free vs. open, I prefer to use the term free. Open suggests that it shares the code but isn't necessarily free of charge whereas the term free indicates a freedom to use, share, modify and copy. Linux is free software. -- Charmed Tuna |
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