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Previously on "WIN 11 is a load of old krap"

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  • d000hg
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    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

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  • d000hg
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    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

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  • Mordac
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    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...)

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  • Lance
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    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.

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  • Scoobos
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    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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  • vetran
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    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.

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  • tazdevil
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    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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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
    Just use one of the excellent Linux distros and stop paying the M$ tax
    Some of us use our computers for work. What fraction of your day rate does Windows work out as?

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  • tazdevil
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    Just use one of the excellent Linux distros and stop paying the M$ tax

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  • Lost It
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    Bring back OS2.

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  • TwoWolves
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    just want to have a wallpaper per v-desktop, is that too much to ask after 25 years of windows?

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  • BR14
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    Originally posted by Paralytic View Post

    Also known as Windows 12.

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  • Paralytic
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    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    I'll wait 'till they finish the customer's beta testing.
    Also known as Windows 12.

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  • BR14
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    I'll wait 'till they finish the customer's beta testing.

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  • Lance
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    still waiting for it. I'm on the fastest insider preview using Intune Update Rings and I am waiting for Microsoft to 'get it ready for me'

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