To read technical books and papers you need a large screen. 6 inches won't do. I've a 9.7 inches eink reader and it's much better for that kind of content. Not as good as real paper and ereaders of that size are uncommon and expensive but I wouldn't trade mine for anything.
Agree, vote with your dollars but I can only do this if phones with removable batteries continue to be made. Among the top Android manufacturers LG is the only one who continues to make flagships with removable batteries.
Using a widely used system like Android has obvious advantadges but not everything is good: You're at the mercy of the OS maker and thus your business depends a lot on another company.
Also, the smartwatch maket is not as mature as the smartphone's so there's a better chance of a new OS gaining a good share of the pie.
They do make continuous progress but they have few programmers and it's a lot of work to clone Windows down to the last API. So it will take a long time until it's somewhat mature and stable.
Also the current target is Windows 2003 server so anything requiring a newer version or 64 bits won't run.
So great work but still a long way to go
When it went free I started to worry. If you're not paying they're obviously going to use your data.
I hate how more and more services are going "data-only", meaning that you can't pay with money even if you want to. Windows 10 is one of the worst because is only free to some and it still spies you
...but we (more often than not) can't uninstall them without rooting our phones.
I'm tired of this crap. The user has less and less control over their devices. Mobiles OS don't let the user be root and now Ms is forcing their services and spying on users with Windows 10. I want to be in control of my devices but won't (officially) let me no matter the money I'm willing to pay
In the original submission the author says Windows 10 is finally a good UI. If he thinks that I don't really KDE to ever become a good UI:).
Anyway, KDE 5 has gone to some extent in the direction of Win 10 so I'm not sure why he doesn't like it.
Maybe I'm too old but I just can't understand why people think flat, with few colors, touch-oriented UIs are good for a desktop
The only walk back Microsoft did with Windows 10 was removing the full screen start "screen" for a start "menu". The rest of it is the same or more touch-ish than Win 8 and that's good if you use a touchscreen for desktop users not so much.
Of course it "works" but I find a classic interface (a la Win 7) much more suitable for keyb+mouse usage. Did it cost them so much to make a Win 7 UI an option?.
What are you noticing? I'm curious as to why a kernel update could have such a noticeable impact on performance these days. I was under the impression that the kernel didn't change big parts these days. Maybe it's the frequence governor mentioned in the summary?
I'm the only one who thinks that the correct response to sites which have too many/annoying/whatever ads is to just leave?
To this day I browse without any ad blocker (strange, I know) and I mostly visit sites which don't have too many ads.
But the problem is precisely that the mobile-like UI and apps, Cortana, the spying and all that crap are considered by Microsoft as essential features of Windows 10, and thus your chance of getting the version you describe is zero.
Don't fret, it's been said the setting will all migrate to the Settings (the mobile like app) in the future.
Me, I just find the mobile-like UIs out of place on a desktop.
As much as I like ReactOS it's still very far from being a viable replacement for Windows. Still lots of software doesn't work, not stable enough, many features missing...
They're really doing a great job given the few programmers they have but something the size of Windows needs hundreds of people working on it
It's a good time to be a PC player but I'm afraid of Microsoft. It's likely they will push developers to develop for UWP and try to get the games to be exclusive to Xbox and Windows 10 . They might also force the developers to sell games only through the Windows Store.
Also it seems Valve's not really pushing Linux gaming much.
Well, that's not completely true since there are many bad things about it that they're not even trying to hide:
It gathers tons of data about you
It tries to push lots of Windows services and software (Cortana, Bing, Windows Login, Windows Store)
It has a crappy, designed-for-touch UI
Upgrades are mandatory
The most important is the last point: Since upgrades are not optional they can slowly update Windows to make it more closed, to push their services even more intensely to show even more ads. To sum up, they can do whatever they want to your PC
I'd mod you up but I've already commented. This, exactly this. The previous versions you paid for them but they were just an OS: They managed your hardware and stayed out of the way. Not you've got tons of data gathering and lots of publicity of Ms services and programs (and of others). They've just turned Windows into Android and I hate it.
. At least Microsoft was smart enough to realize it was a mistake.
Not really. They did backtrack with the start screen by going back to a sort of start menu but...they've changed parts of the UI to a mobile like interface: Many of the default apps like Photos, Music. Half of the settings are now in the mobile-like Settings app and there's talk of completely removing the Control Panel and moving all settings to the app.
So no, they haven't really go back and in fact they're moving the UI to a touch/mobile style
I don't know to which extent Ms spyware is now embedded in Win7 but it still has several things by which I like it better than 10:
it has an UI that I like (and that's designed specifically for desktop use and not for touch)
it doesn't have mobile like apps (huge UI elements, lots of whitespace) apps as default (Photos, Music...)
it doesn't try to sell me/gather data with Ms services (Cortana with forced Bing integration, Windows Store, Ms accounts, OneDrive integrated in the OS...)
it no longer gets new features so I know it won't change to try to further push you into Ms' walled garden (which Win10 seems to be)
I don't know why you would be happy about them removing that. What they should've done is adding different themes to make everyone happy. In fact, in Windows 7 you had the classic theme if you didn't like Aero.
Now in 10 it's the flat theme for everyone whether you like or not
While I hate what Microsoft have done with Windows 10 most of their employees have part in it.
It's obvious that the spying features, the bundling of Ms services, etc. are features demanded by the higher ups. Those who implemented them where merely following orders
If you depend on Windows-only software you will have to use Win10 sooner or later if anything because the newer hardware won't work with 7/8 anymore.
And I say this as someone who really hates Win 10. I myself plan to move to Linux and only use Windows for games
I'm curious, did you use to make this many changes to previous versions of Windows or it's the first time you've had to make many changes to get a system like you like it?
They actually want to be Google. They've modified Windows to gather a lot of user data and to push many of their services (OneDrive, Cortana, Windows Store...) just like Android does. They of course also plan to do a lot of money out of it all, again just like Google.
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To read technical books and papers you need a large screen. 6 inches won't do. I've a 9.7 inches eink reader and it's much better for that kind of content. Not as good as real paper and ereaders of that size are uncommon and expensive but I wouldn't trade mine for anything.
Agree, vote with your dollars but I can only do this if phones with removable batteries continue to be made. Among the top Android manufacturers LG is the only one who continues to make flagships with removable batteries.
Using a widely used system like Android has obvious advantadges but not everything is good: You're at the mercy of the OS maker and thus your business depends a lot on another company.
Also, the smartwatch maket is not as mature as the smartphone's so there's a better chance of a new OS gaining a good share of the pie.
They do make continuous progress but they have few programmers and it's a lot of work to clone Windows down to the last API. So it will take a long time until it's somewhat mature and stable.
Also the current target is Windows 2003 server so anything requiring a newer version or 64 bits won't run.
So great work but still a long way to go
When it went free I started to worry. If you're not paying they're obviously going to use your data.
I hate how more and more services are going "data-only", meaning that you can't pay with money even if you want to. Windows 10 is one of the worst because is only free to some and it still spies you
...but we (more often than not) can't uninstall them without rooting our phones.
I'm tired of this crap. The user has less and less control over their devices. Mobiles OS don't let the user be root and now Ms is forcing their services and spying on users with Windows 10. I want to be in control of my devices but won't (officially) let me no matter the money I'm willing to pay
In the original submission the author says Windows 10 is finally a good UI. If he thinks that I don't really KDE to ever become a good UI :).
Anyway, KDE 5 has gone to some extent in the direction of Win 10 so I'm not sure why he doesn't like it.
Maybe I'm too old but I just can't understand why people think flat, with few colors, touch-oriented UIs are good for a desktop
The only walk back Microsoft did with Windows 10 was removing the full screen start "screen" for a start "menu". The rest of it is the same or more touch-ish than Win 8 and that's good if you use a touchscreen for desktop users not so much.
Of course it "works" but I find a classic interface (a la Win 7) much more suitable for keyb+mouse usage. Did it cost them so much to make a Win 7 UI an option?.
What are you noticing? I'm curious as to why a kernel update could have such a noticeable impact on performance these days. I was under the impression that the kernel didn't change big parts these days. Maybe it's the frequence governor mentioned in the summary?
I'm the only one who thinks that the correct response to sites which have too many/annoying/whatever ads is to just leave?
To this day I browse without any ad blocker (strange, I know) and I mostly visit sites which don't have too many ads.
But if you do it well you only have to rewrite the hardware specific portion which should be fairy small
But the problem is precisely that the mobile-like UI and apps, Cortana, the spying and all that crap are considered by Microsoft as essential features of Windows 10, and thus your chance of getting the version you describe is zero.
Don't fret, it's been said the setting will all migrate to the Settings (the mobile like app) in the future.
Me, I just find the mobile-like UIs out of place on a desktop.
Congrats on the comment, it seems as if you could read my mind. user hostile is the best description one can give of Win 10
As much as I like ReactOS it's still very far from being a viable replacement for Windows. Still lots of software doesn't work, not stable enough, many features missing...
They're really doing a great job given the few programmers they have but something the size of Windows needs hundreds of people working on it
It's a good time to be a PC player but I'm afraid of Microsoft. It's likely they will push developers to develop for UWP and try to get the games to be exclusive to Xbox and Windows 10 . They might also force the developers to sell games only through the Windows Store.
Also it seems Valve's not really pushing Linux gaming much.
The most important is the last point: Since upgrades are not optional they can slowly update Windows to make it more closed, to push their services even more intensely to show even more ads. To sum up, they can do whatever they want to your PC
I'd mod you up but I've already commented. This, exactly this. The previous versions you paid for them but they were just an OS: They managed your hardware and stayed out of the way. Not you've got tons of data gathering and lots of publicity of Ms services and programs (and of others). They've just turned Windows into Android and I hate it.
. At least Microsoft was smart enough to realize it was a mistake.
Not really. They did backtrack with the start screen by going back to a sort of start menu but...they've changed parts of the UI to a mobile like interface: Many of the default apps like Photos, Music. Half of the settings are now in the mobile-like Settings app and there's talk of completely removing the Control Panel and moving all settings to the app.
So no, they haven't really go back and in fact they're moving the UI to a touch/mobile style
I don't know why you would be happy about them removing that. What they should've done is adding different themes to make everyone happy. In fact, in Windows 7 you had the classic theme if you didn't like Aero.
Now in 10 it's the flat theme for everyone whether you like or not
While I hate what Microsoft have done with Windows 10 most of their employees have part in it.
It's obvious that the spying features, the bundling of Ms services, etc. are features demanded by the higher ups. Those who implemented them where merely following orders
If you depend on Windows-only software you will have to use Win10 sooner or later if anything because the newer hardware won't work with 7/8 anymore.
And I say this as someone who really hates Win 10. I myself plan to move to Linux and only use Windows for games
I'm curious, did you use to make this many changes to previous versions of Windows or it's the first time you've had to make many changes to get a system like you like it?
They actually want to be Google. They've modified Windows to gather a lot of user data and to push many of their services (OneDrive, Cortana, Windows Store...) just like Android does. They of course also plan to do a lot of money out of it all, again just like Google.