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Bill Gates leaves MS board
tautech:
Sorta forced to use W10 James for customer tech support otherwise I might still be on W7 like many others. Ran a dual boot of 7 and 8.1 for a while for the same reason so got a good look at 8.1 before 10 came along and waited a while till it was sorted and made a headlong jump to 10 exclusively.
Been the W way since 3.11 and used most but not all W incarnations along the way and if nothing else learnt, unless you keep with the times updating to a much later W version is hard.
10 does all it's shit in the background as far as I'm concerned as has little effect on my daily doings other than the odd rare reboot after an update which is pretty fast if your OS is on a SSD. 15-20s boot times leave all other W versions for dead IME.
jancumps:
--- Quote from: mc172 on March 20, 2020, 01:22:55 am ---That's the problem you get with […] people not giving people local admin rights because it supposedly sounds scary.
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once I put my internal bias aside, and had local admin rights etc, it was better than W7. Until I hard deleted Cortana because it drove me nuts and as a consequence broke the search function...
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Didn’t you just show why not giving local admin can be a good decision?
all_repair:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 19, 2020, 04:13:14 pm ---I don't think Microsoft will suddenly fail any time soon. I think it's more likely they'll just carry on as they are, without growing or shrinking much. There's no reason why the desktop is going to switch away from Windows and companies will always need desktop computers.
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What I know is Each time when someone need to reinstall his machine, the chance he pays for another copy of his paid uSoft office is more than 50%. For many I know, is 100% each time.
Zero999:
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--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 19, 2020, 06:24:21 pm ---Many Linux advocates have been predicting Linux will widely replacing Windows on the desktop for over 20 years now and so far its market share has hardly increased at all. I can't see it happening any time soon
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It is happening. Just not in offices where a Windows PC is nothing more than a glorified typewriter. Take these away and you'll see very high percentages. Linux is big enough in engineering that a lot of companies already have Linux support or are working on it.
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Where's the evidence to support this? Quickly Googling shows Linux is just under 1.9% which is tiny, compared to Windows. I believe OS X has gained more than Linux, due to the crappyness of Windows 10.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
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But this is including the glorified typewriters :palm: A while ago there was a poll on this forum showing 30% or so is primarily on Linux and another 30% is using Linux regulary. I have several customers which are using Linux as their primary OS. Windows is only on a few computers used for administrative work. Even Altium is working on a Linux version.
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But this forum represents a small subsection of desktop users.
I agree Windows 10 is a turd and am currently typing this from a Linux PC, but that won't change the fact that Linux has a comparatively small user base, compare to Windows and there are no signs of that changing soon.
Karel:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 19, 2020, 08:03:38 pm ---Quickly Googling shows Linux is just under 1.9% which is tiny, compared to Windows.
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Because that number includes houesewives and gamers.
In engineering, that number is at least a ten times higher.
Even higher in software development.
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