Comments on: Winders Ten

By: freeman

freeman — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 22:38:48 +0000

“Upgrade to Windows 10 for FREE! Limited time only!”
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“Upgrade to Windows 10, highly recommended for your system.”
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“Upgrade to Windows 10, your system may be at risk!”
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“Windows 10 is being installed on your system, whether you like it or not, bitches.”

By: hans

hans — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:28:00 +0000

Ah, looks like the Empire Strikes Back!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-silently-re-enables-windows-10-upgrades-on-windows-7-and-8-1-pcs-report-497234.shtml
Bring it on muthafockers! 😦

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 03:41:09 +0000

There ***IS*** opposition to the spread of the systemd menace. Devuan (https://devuan.org/) is a systemd-less fork of Debian. Arch, Gentoo, and Slackware offer the option of not using systemd. I think Manjaro and Puppy are systemd-less by default. Mint also offers the option to get rid of systemd, but it is uncertain for how long.

There are also web sites promoting opposition to systemd, such as http://systemd-free.org/, http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page, and several others. But yes, unfortunately, all major distros (Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu…) are soon going to be systemd-only.

By: let it burn

let it burn — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:28:12 +0000

it’s called “bsd”. (buh dum tish)

seriously, at some point systemd will have a hard dependency on a (till then) secret fork of the kernel that redhat controls. then linux is truely fuckered. it’s only a matter of time…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:33:27 +0000

Yeah, and if the Linux world could sideline Lenhart Poettering (of pulseaudio and, more recently, systemd fame), Linux would be a much better world, as it used to be.

By: hans

hans — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:25:40 +0000

Meh, I´m not feeling your Golf analogy (IMHO WinX is more like the Renault that can be switched of when you don´t pay your car-rent) but I guess it makes it easier understandable for the non-nerds.
I´d be more partial to the gun analogy, as in “Ya have to pry Win7 from my cold dead hands!” 😉

Thanks to my SSD I suddenly got suspicious of my HDD waking up at VERY inopportune times(have that sucker set to sleep after 40 mins, thus blissful quiet for most of the day) and after a comb over of the scheduler I found all these weird “user experience” entries, I then disabled.
Eventually the internet caught on and identified all the stealth “updates” that fuck Win7 over so it stealth downloads WinX and probably fucks Win7 so hard that the user gives up and installs the conveniently available newer, better, faster & improved “NSA-X” operating system.
https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/459263

So my Win7 is saved and I´m a happy camper, though my Winupdate did suddenly stop nagging me with update notifications.
Which is quite a boon, I´m happy to report! 🙂

Quite frankly Microsoft can be swallowed by a sinkhole for all I care, IF the asshole “my code is prettier than thou” Linux nerds would finally get their heads out of their asses and simply COPY one(ANY) Windows version, instead of constantly reinventing the UNIX-hamster-wheel.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:19:54 +0000

I’m running an Ubuntu/Windows 8.1 dual boot system right now. I hardly ever run Windows unless I have to, and I’m hoping I can stick with 8.1 for a while yet. My main worry is that if I upgrade it will try and fuck with my bootloader and make it so I can’t get into Linux anymore.

I keep seeing games here and there being released on Steam for the Linux OS, and I hope this is part of a trend where companies start releasing multi-OS software so Windows will finally start losing market share. Microsoft is a dinosaur and just needs to die already.