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What is Your Operating System of Choice?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Tuesday April 22, @05:43PM (11 children)
I'm using Windows 10, because I have to run Mastercam and Solidworks. I will not use Windows 11. I don't see any good path forward for my use case.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday April 22, @07:44PM (4 children)
Mastercam and Solidworks have pretty garbage ratings on WINEHQ as well. I wonder how well they would work on ReactOS, if at all.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24, @05:34AM (2 children)
Well, stop using such vampiric software that ties you to the Dark Master in Redmond. Drive a steak through their hart, spinkle them with holey water, and bedeck them with a garland of garlic. After all these years, I am sick, and tired, of people claiming they are force to support a monopoly! Well, no shit, janrinok, that is how it stays a monopoly! Break the ties, Cross the streams, punish the proprietaries, and bring about the new world of free software. Or, die in the fire that will be Windows 12!! You have been warned.
(Score: 3, Touché) by mhajicek on Friday April 25, @12:28AM (1 child)
Ok, point me towards an actual professional level CADCAM software that runs on Linux, that can do what I do with Mastercam and Solidworks. I'll wait.
And before you tell me to learn to code and write it myself, look up how many man hours went into it. I don't have a spare few hundred lifetimes to write it myself, on the side, while running my machining business.
Maybe I can have an AI do it for me in a few years...
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday May 13, @01:36PM
If I was a gambling man, I would put a ton of money down on it not happening.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Monday May 12, @04:49AM
I'm considering Tiny 11 for if/when I finally have to leave Win 10 behind. I hardly knew ye! I was on 7 until mid 2020.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday April 24, @02:21PM (4 children)
I am wondering: only 2% chose Windows as their "OS of choice" but how many still use it as their "OS of necessity?"
I know my corporate laptop will only function properly with Windows, so I do technically use it once or twice a month when coerced to do so by my employer.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24, @04:48PM (2 children)
I am happy to say I haven't booted Windows since 2022, and that was only to do a video interview with some random proprietary video calling software. Cisco, I think. Even that was in a VM.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25, @06:31AM (1 child)
I have not used a Microsoft product since Win95!! I remember CeMeNt! Spend more time looking at Blue screens of Death than actually getting any work done. Microsoft should not have been included as an option on this poll. Cancel Bill!!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28, @06:25PM
Yeah, non-Windows users are spam, gottcha, soulless Micro$erf shill janrinok! Message received! No more biting the hand that feeds anti-virus software. Did you ever think that the real reason for the existence of Windows is to enable virii? Or that Windows is a virus, not an operating system? Enjoy your Co-pilot and Total Recall!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 29, @10:41AM
I replaced Windows 11 Home with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC on my work laptop, it's supported till 2027/2032: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021 [microsoft.com]
"Disadvantages" are: No Cortana. No Microsoft Store. Less Telemetry. Fewer ads. More expensive (compared to say Home Edition but not too different compared to other Enterprise Editions).
WORKSFORME YMMV
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25, @06:24AM
Pfft. Mastercam and Solidworks? Everyone knows real machinists write ISO 6983-1 by hand. Everything else gets you too far away from having a true and deep understanding of your work. Kids these days have no appreciation for the art or science of manufacturing! /s