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WIN 11 is a load of old krap

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    #11
    Originally posted by d000hg View Post

    Some of us use our computers for work. What fraction of your day rate does Windows work out as?
    Nothing, although my customers servers generally use Windows I'm not dependent on it for what I do and none of my own servers use it. In fact no one should be dependent on MS because whatever Windows can do other OS's can do too. MS has gone backwards in their quest to make a single user PC OS into a ubiquitous OS for all purposes. They should have bought and brought VMS forward Linux style rather than hiring its designer and butchering it as an MS-DOS upgrade to produce WNT then further despoiling it with sticking plaster updates to produce the Windows series of performance killers

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      #12
      Originally posted by tazdevil View Post

      Nothing, although my customers servers generally use Windows I'm not dependent on it for what I do and none of my own servers use it. In fact no one should be dependent on MS because whatever Windows can do other OS's can do too. MS has gone backwards in their quest to make a single user PC OS into a ubiquitous OS for all purposes. They should have bought and brought VMS forward Linux style rather than hiring its designer and butchering it as an MS-DOS upgrade to produce WNT then further despoiling it with sticking plaster updates to produce the Windows series of performance killers
      Where the user doesn't have to use and manage it Linux is very popular. Web servers were always more UNIX than Windows because technically UNIX is better.

      However what you see as an inferior O/S is the people's choice for a reason.
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        #13
        Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
        Just use one of the excellent Linux distros and stop paying the M$ tax
        Give me directory services, federation, group policy , centralised security controls etc and I'd consider it.

        That's what we need for office workers mainly.

        Don't get me wrong, I love linux, but it has its place and it's not the standard office desktop environment with centralised administration - and I don't think it ever will be, because no one's tried to compete with AD etc. (edit to say that centrify wasn't great)
        Last edited by Scoobos; 17 September 2021, 12:01.

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          #14
          Originally posted by eek View Post
          It's Win 10 with a few minor changes.

          My biggest gripe is that the new file Explorer is currently crap.
          it looks 'orrible until you choose compact view.
          See You Next Tuesday

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            #15
            Originally posted by Lost It View Post
            Bring back OS2.
            OS/2 will be great when it's finished (originally said in 1994 but still apparently true now...)
            His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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              #16
              Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
              whatever Windows can do other OS's can do too.
              Unless you rely on some Windows software (ok there's WINE but seriously who has the time).

              .NET now runs cross-platform, but that's thanks to MS
              Originally posted by MaryPoppins
              I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
              Originally posted by vetran
              Urine is quite nourishing

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                #17
                Originally posted by Scoobos View Post
                because no one's tried to compete with AD etc.
                That might be the first positive (or not negative) thing I ever heard anyone say about AD
                Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                Originally posted by vetran
                Urine is quite nourishing

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