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Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking
New submitter christhedj writes with a story at The Inquirer, according to which: Microsoft, having learned nothing from Apple and the U2 album, have started downloading Windows 10 as part of Patch Tuesday for Windows 7 and 8 users. For people on a 32GB flash drive tablet, that's a big chunk of space taken up with something that they didn't ask for. Microsoft admits to doing this, but users are not happy. Way to look needy, Microsoft.
I'll tell you upfront, very very few major game developers are considering Linux yet. They won't until the crowd is there and proves that people are willing to pay money for games. The probably is that your average Linux gamer is a cheapskate or a GNUStallinist who feels that everything should be 100% free and open source. The second issue is that Linux is really a fragmented market to the point where even basic testing and support on the exact same hardware can be difficult. Valve is working on making "consoles" that are setup in a standard way, but the vast majority of PC gamers don't want a console in any form. Is it possible, sure, but it's not likely.
You buy games, not versions of games on Steam. So if there is a Linux or Mac install of a game you bought on Windows, it automatically appears in your list on the other platforms. Surprisingly, Steam's cloud saves generally work cross platform as well, so you can start a game on Windows and then finish it on Linux, or play a round on the Mac and then go back to your Linux box.
I read the internet for the articles.
Am currently running a dual boot Win10 and Linux system. No problems so far. Even have my Dropbox folder shared between the two.
Depends on which Unreal engine. Older games on older engines could run on Linux even without official support, usually simply copying and renaming the binary.
If the Unreal engine were compiled for Linux, replacing the launchers would be relatively simple.
It eventually comes down to choice of rendering language. If you stuck to Directx for some reason, you'll be stuck with Windows (or Wine). The growing iOS, Android, Mac and Linux markets can't be reached. If you chose OpenGL, porting is simple.
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You're "supposed" to set the connection as "metered" which will prevent Windows from downloading any updates at all. (Or at least it's supposed to. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it turns out that it doesn't.)
Not surprisingly, while marking a connection as "metered" in Windows 8 is trivial (right click on the network and choose "set as metered"), it's nearly impossible to do it under Windows 10. You have to go to Settings, Network Connections, Advanced Options, and then there's a "metered" option hiding somewhere in those options.
Of course, if you're using Windows 7, you're screwed. The "metered" setting is a new Windows 8 feature, and can't be done in Windows 7.
2 of the 4 KBs are not be displayed :P so it is impossible to uninstall them...
Can anyone provide more info on this?
Is it true? The list of KBs I know to avoid are:
KB3022345 - Created a new Windows service called the Diagnostics Tracking service. (RETRACTED)
KB3068708 - Update to 3022345.
KB3075249 - Enhanced the User Account Control (UAC) feature to enable it to collect more information from the elevation prompts.
KB3080149 - Update to 3022345/3068708.
But it's true I tried to uninstall them and only saw 2 to uninstall and hide. I thought however that it was because some were updates/replacements of previous ones.
As I understand it you get a free licence locked to 1 machine. But the windows 7 licence I bought is for any machine (but I can only install/run one copy). So that would be a retrograde step.
SURELY NOT!!!!!
One time, years ago, I got a new laptop and deferred accepting the "security update" for over a month while I learned the details of my new laptop and new Win XP OS. When I did accept the security update I could no longer access the Internet from Linux. This was particularly strange since I was running Linux from a Knoppix Live CD, and I even confirmed that the CD had not changed (both by checking the md5 and by making another CD). What I eventually tracked down was that the "security update" had changed the EEPROM on my built-in NIC so that it wouldn't work properly under Linux any more (all modern NICs use EEPROM to store information including the MAC address). Windows bypassed what was done and it could still access the Internet.
As Windows is that only malware that successfully has been able to do damage to any of my computers that I couldn't undo, I no longer allow Windows to do the automatic updates. Some say that I'm foolish. This article indicates otherwise.
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When you have an SSD that boots Linux in less than 20 seconds, who the hell *cares* if it doesn't hibernate correctly.. I run Kubuntu 14.04 on a Dell Precision M4400 and haven't EVER hibernated it, as a cold boot is fast enough to not give a shit if hibernation works or doesn't work...
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Our housekeeper had a Win7 laptop which ran so-so. Win10 downloaded automatically and nagged for install every boot. She finally clicked OK. Laptop thrundled for an hour, rebooted, screen went black, never came back. Each attempt to boot turns the screen black. No recovery, no backup.
She got a Chromebook and couldn't be happier. Thank you Microsoft.
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The data set is pretty much every Humble Bundle that contains games for Windows and Linux (which is most game bundles).
Let's have a look at one currently running bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/w...
Average purchase: $2.82
Average Windows: $2.71
Average Mac: $3.25
Average Linux:$3.89
So Linux users are willing to pay 40% more than Windows users on a pay what you want scheme.
Just a data point, but my Ubuntu laptop suspends and resumes just fine. But my Windows laptop doesn't and frequently has to be rebooted when that happens.
IIRC my Powerbook used to have similar issues, I think it's just a hard problem for operating designers - who start with operating systems that don't support the feature - to retrofit onto existing systems. I'm kinda surprised Ubuntu does it without problems, but it does.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
I usually install "Optional" Windows updates as part of my preventive maintenance routine with my clients. I was taken off guard when I saw this suspicious looking folder. After a second of research I found it was the Windows 10 install files, which I never asked for (my clients always defer things like that to me).
Along with some other questionable optional Win7 updates as of late (like the one that tracks you akin to Win10), I'm wondering whether I need to research each individual update now before installing it. Fuck, Microsoft. Why do you have to make my job even more time consuming than it already is just keeping your damn OS running correctly?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I know this has been a problem with Linux on some laptops. I've experienced it, too. But I've been able to get it working on three different laptops (the number of laptops I've owned in my lifetime) with some effort. Yes, you may say, it should "just work" --- and that's right.
(Does it "just work" on Windows? I honestly don't know, I haven't tried.)
But it is not a fatal failing and can be made to work. Linux offers more than one method of hibernation, and actually, the biggest problem for me has been difficulty recovering the wireless networking after hibernation. But I've been able to work around that, too.