barbos
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Have been using linux and all kind of unixes since the beginning of time.
The last time I semi-used Windows was during WinXP time.
Completely missed Vista, 7, 8. Couple of times I was asked to help with win 10, I think it was. One guy got "You have a virus!" popup in browser, I told him it's nothing. Another time, old lady lost file associations after some install, I did not fix it (I could but it would have taken time). Instead I taught her to start her Word manually. That's literally all my post WinXP windows experience.
Recently, I decided that I need windows just in case, and installed it under VMware:
Fresh install from the last ISO, automatic update (~6G of files), very long and annoying reboot and 17GB of disk usage.
Fonts are still not antialliased, don't know why.
Media Player does not play x265, and when it plays x264 and older codecs it does not have postprocessing so everything looks pixelated.
Browser Edge seems fine. Cortana does not work without registering and seems cloud based, I did not want guys in India laughing at my accent.
In comparison, Linux (Kubuntu in my case), takes much less space (10G), have much more stuff in it, update process is virtually unnoticeable - not automatic and does not cause 30 minutes reboots. Video player plays everything and does that correctly. Yeah, and fonts are antialiased.
The last time I semi-used Windows was during WinXP time.
Completely missed Vista, 7, 8. Couple of times I was asked to help with win 10, I think it was. One guy got "You have a virus!" popup in browser, I told him it's nothing. Another time, old lady lost file associations after some install, I did not fix it (I could but it would have taken time). Instead I taught her to start her Word manually. That's literally all my post WinXP windows experience.
Recently, I decided that I need windows just in case, and installed it under VMware:
Fresh install from the last ISO, automatic update (~6G of files), very long and annoying reboot and 17GB of disk usage.
Fonts are still not antialliased, don't know why.
Media Player does not play x265, and when it plays x264 and older codecs it does not have postprocessing so everything looks pixelated.
Browser Edge seems fine. Cortana does not work without registering and seems cloud based, I did not want guys in India laughing at my accent.
In comparison, Linux (Kubuntu in my case), takes much less space (10G), have much more stuff in it, update process is virtually unnoticeable - not automatic and does not cause 30 minutes reboots. Video player plays everything and does that correctly. Yeah, and fonts are antialiased.