Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.
Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Thursday October 22 2015, @09:45AM
I find that Siemens Step7/TIA, Rockwell Studio 5000, and Mitsubishi GX Developer (roughly 90% of the PLC's in the world) all run very nicely under VMware on a Debian box. Yeah, it's a pain having multiple vm's to support client version and native OS requirements, but it works just fine. Same goes for AutoCAD and ProE, although the overhead necessitates a pretty powerful workstation.