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Our home just gained a shiny new HP laptop, which was immediately upgraded to Windows 10.
Much of the last tweny-four hours has been consumed by two tasks: making it print to an HP printer networked to our router, and moving email from Windows Live Mail on an XP box to the same program on the W10 machine.
If I run into a Linux problem (or even Android) I can usually visit a forum or other resource and get an answer in a few minutes. With Windows I'm Googling madly and chasing many more dead ends than useful answers.
And yes, that not surprisingly includes Microsoft's own sites.
So Soylentils, what are your go-to places for good-quality Windows 10 information?
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The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
-- Fred Allen
(Score: 4, Funny) by Katastic on Saturday September 05 2015, @08:12PM
I spent almost two weeks of company time trying to diagnose why ONLY TWO salespeople's iPhones couldn't get their Exchange e-mail on their phones. They kept bitching and bitching, they called their "IT nephew" to try and give me advice. It turns out that a SPECIFIC iPhone with a SPECIFIC iOS version decides to shit all over everyone.
Microsoft's entire software stack is a gigantic pile of trash, and Apple's updates only make it worse.
All they care about is getting the software sold. If it works--even if it throws a thousand errors in the Event Log every day--nobody gives a shit until the next IT guy comes along (read: me) and has to clean up the mess.
I never used to hate Microsoft's products until I had to maintain them for a living. When I start my company, I'm going to ban them and write it into a stone tablet for everyone to see.
(Score: 2, Touché) by kazzie on Saturday September 05 2015, @08:49PM
When I start my company, I'm going to ban them and write it into a stone tablet for everyone to see.
Does the tablet run Windows 10?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @09:21PM
It runs Moses 1.0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 06 2015, @08:33AM
Stone tablet? The odds are pretty good. A brick tablet, on the other hand, would probably be Apple.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @08:55PM
So basically like Linux distros that have tons of errors in the log on a clean install.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday September 05 2015, @09:18PM
So basically like Linux distros
This is not the appropriate thread for a M$ shill to post tu quoque accusations. And you are offtopic, since, if you had read the Fine Summary you would know the issue is finding information on the errors, not that there are errors. So, try harder, or just give the OP your secret contact number to Redmond so the poor bastard can get some help.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @11:16PM
I think I saw another post on this printer made by the OP elsewhere yesterday.
God! I am SOOO Glad for Linux! [linuxmint.com]
If the 2 usernames are not the same person, that is a fantastic coincidence.
My question at this point is:
What task do you need to do that requires Redmond's spyware?
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @10:32PM
You mean like every version of windows, which after installing all the mandatory updates to fix all its problems also fills the even log with needless spam, so that when something does go wrong the log is virtually useless since you can't tell what is business as usual, and what is real problems. I would rather be homeless again, then maintain other peoples Microsoft products again.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by darkfeline on Saturday September 05 2015, @10:42PM
Linux exploits this chink in the defenses. Your computer notices a bootable disk in the floppy or CD-ROM drive, loads in some object code from that disk, and blindly begins to execute it. But this is not Microsoft or Apple code, this is Linux code, and so at this point your computer begins to behave very differently from what you are accustomed to. Cryptic messages began to scroll up the screen. If you had booted a commercial OS, you would, at this point, be seeing a "Welcome to MacOS" cartoon, or a screen filled with clouds in a blue sky, and a Windows logo. But under Linux you get a long telegram printed in stark white letters on a black screen. There is no "welcome!" message. Most of the telegram has the semi-inscrutable menace of graffiti tags.
The only parts of this that are readable, for normal people, are the error messages and warnings. And yet it's noteworthy that Linux doesn't stop, or crash, when it encounters an error; it spits out a pithy complaint, gives up on whatever processes were damaged, and keeps on rolling. This was decidedly not true of the early versions of Apple and Microsoft OSes, for the simple reason that an OS that is not capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time cannot possibly recover from errors. Looking for, and dealing with, errors requires a separate process running in parallel with the one that has erred. A kind of superego, if you will, that keeps an eye on all of the others, and jumps in when one goes astray. Now that MacOS and Windows can do more than one thing at a time they are much better at dealing with errors than they used to be, but they are not even close to Linux or other Unices in this respect; and their greater complexity has made them vulnerable to new types of errors.
In the Beginning was the Command Line [inria.fr]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by el_oscuro on Monday September 07 2015, @12:43AM
But this is not Microsoft or Apple code, this is Linux code, and so at this point your computer begins to behave very differently from what you are accustomed to. Cryptic messages began to scroll up the screen.
Unfortunately, for most distros, you are incorrect. Most these days have a crappy splash screen which I hate. I would much rather see those cryptic error messages so if there is a problem, I can see it and google the error message.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday September 05 2015, @09:01PM
When I start my company, I'm going to ban them and write it into a stone tablet for everyone to see.
Yeah, that usually works out well [independent.co.uk].
(Score: 3, Interesting) by LoRdTAW on Saturday September 05 2015, @10:41PM
All software sucks [cat-v.org]. It really does. We are at a point where so much overly complex shit has been shoveled on top of more overly complex shit that it's become nearly impossible to dig ourselves out.
Bottom line? If it works good enough then it's done.