No, I turn all the flashing shit off, as I said above. Can't you read? Once I've done that, Win7 is then not too unpleasant to use. Even macOS is succumbing to this recent habit of fixing what isn't broken, with the revolting Dark Mode. And everyone is trying to use these minimalist icons that could mean anything at all.
In message <7awNE.118221$ snipped-for-privacy@usenetxs.com, "dennis@home" snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid writes
The big difference with W10 is that suddenly one can be faced with a major update that moves things around and makes biggish changes.
With XP and W7, major changes occurred in service packs. That way was much more manageable.
I did embrace W10 at first, and ran a test machine as an Insider for quite a while.
I've stopped checking because I have things set up as I want, but a couple of Firewire audio interfaces here, including an automated, flying faders, mixer/interface, certainly stopped working on a check with W10. As I've said, the main audio machines have remained on XP and Vista. I've not even bothered moving the latter machine to W7 because it works fine as it is, and I'm doing much less now even as a hobby.
I repeat that I want an Operating System, not a "Service", whatever that may be.
I was a Certified Novell Instructor and at the time saw the rapid erosion of the Netware being used commercially (mainly to NT / Windows Server) because Windows was 'much easier to install / manage'. ;-(
It was (as you say) probably also cheaper to maintain a Windows Server as there would likely to be more Windows people out there (even if it took more maintaining than Netware etc).
I knew of one place that kept a 'Linux geek' in the local Pub, only calling on him when required (by sending a taxi for him and dropping him back). ;-)
Nah, TNP knows everything about all linux software distributions.
He also probably knows that linux is a very small part of a distro but like most linux fanatics never acknowledges all the hard work put in by the software developers that did the 99% of the software.
Except that most Windows / OSX software is made by companies, often for sale and sometimes with a free (of cost) version (few people are interested in any other meaning of free).
Much Linux software is developed by people in sheds, mostly to be offered free of charge (and often the other free that mostly only Linux geeks are bothered about) and commercial buyers don't like that they rarely get any level of support.
Linux is often like buying a plain white packet of seeds that says on it 'Mixed Salad', perfectly fine if you are into that sort of thing and are looking for a hobby (rather than dinner). ;-)
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