I had my first experience setting up Windows 10 the other day for a friend, I had been avoiding it all this time. Anyway the experience was horrible, first of all during the install Cortana starts talking to me, WTF? I don't like talking to AI's especially during setup when I didn't even turn Cortana on, so turn it off as soon as I can but it still seemed to be "listening" and picked up dialog from the TV going in the background and started selecting the wrong language setting because of the TV, what's up with that?
Also during the install it has a whole page full of privacy settings, asking me if it's OK to spy on me basically, I untick everything off course.
Next thing is I go to download Chrome using Edge. I think I got told about 2 or 3 times that I shouldn't be using Chrome because Edge is "better", that experience left a sour taste in my mouth. Also I mostly dislike Edge because I am a web developer and know just how bad IE was at web standards over the last decade, so no thanks, I am not using Edge.
Anyway, first of all the Bing search results say something along the lines that Edge is better on Windows 10 than Chrome and that I should continue using it, I ignore it and install it anyway. Then I start Chrome and it recommends me to go to settings so I can change the default browser.
I went to settings, it sat on 100% CPU for about 30 minutes, after FINALLY getting in there and changing the default browser it STILL tells me I shouldn't be changing the default browser because "Edge is better". I was quite annoyed at the whole process and constantly getting told by Microsoft not to install Chrome.
It is annoying yes, we have a Razer on one PC too and yes it updates frequently and needs the Internet, but Logitech isn't the best alternative either, they are utter junk these days... a company that used to be good but produce a lot of crap these days.
This probably isn't a good example, but those tiny laptop sized mice Logitech do, I burn through one per year roughly, they just randomly crap out and you get another one. I keep getting them because they are cheap and just for the TV but still.
For my desktop PC I had a Logitech G7, it died, they replaced it with a G9 because the G7's had a bad run apparently. But guess what, the G9 also died. I now have a Roccat.
Probably for a lot of us yes, but most of my family on Windows continue to run Winamp still today as they really like the view that shows you all the album thumbs and haven't found a player yet that does this (Banshee in Linux comes close, but it's a bit less flexible).
Notebooks aren't all bad with a docking station and external monitor(s), I just got a T550 laptop via work and love it, 16Gb RAM, core i7 5600u, ssd, my choice of Linux.
At work they gave me a docking station connected to 2x standard 22" full HD screens which is fine to develop on.
When I work from home I connect it to my 27" 2560x1440 Dell IPS (sort of like a wall of pixels) which has a built in KVM, I just close the lid and use it like a desktop PC.
I had a desktop PC prior to that, but do like the flexibility of the notebook and it's more than powerful enough with the SSD and RAM. I mostly work with containers (LXC, Docker, etc), and occasionally Vagrant.. depending on the project.
And lets not forget the Bulldozer bug, I have been putting up with bluescreens and freezing for years because Gigabyte failed to produce a BIOS update for something that had a fix from AMD also:
https://scalibq.wordpress.com/...
I have a new system now so not longer have this issue, but it surely was frustrating to get it blue screen several times a day.
I've recently switched from Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and KDE 5 took a while to get used to.
I don't care one bit for the global menus as that seems too Mac-like and doesn't appeal to me coming from a PC background.
However the biggest thing I am missing is the lack of public holidays in the calendar widget when you click on the clock, I used that a lot in KDE 4.
Nice, but is this codebase designed for Python 2 or something? I am seeing some from __future__ import statements in the code which I find a bit meh today.
Personally, I wouldn't release any new project that supported Python 2 anymore, and write straight Python 3 code.
Why are the flash instructions for Windows only? I have a few friends that get into drones, but they all use Linux, as do I. They tend to find it annoying that they have to keep an old Windows laptop around just to flash firmwares. I really hope it's also possible to flash under Linux.
Slow? seriously?
Really depends what you're doing with it, I have a BeagleBoard XM 1ghz single core, running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I use it as a server to run web apps written in Go, they absolutely fly on this little board. You just have to make sure you try not to hit the disk too much because it's just an SD card.
This little quad core board will be the perfect upgrade to the Beagleboard XM for running my Go webapps as I gain more cores and it's running @ 1.5ghz, also it supports an eMMC card which is going to be an improvement over the SD card when it comes to disk speed.
One of the things with the Raspberry Pi is that it was based on an older ARM chip that Ubuntu didn't support so you had to run Raspbian instead. I've held onto my BeagleBoard XM because it's a newer ARM v7 chip that can run Ubuntu 14.04 LTS unlike the Pi. I can cross compile my ARM binaries on my desktop for the ARM v7 target and run them straight on the BeagleBoard.
Hoping this new little ARM board is ARM v7 also but it probably is.
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I had my first experience setting up Windows 10 the other day for a friend, I had been avoiding it all this time. Anyway the experience was horrible, first of all during the install Cortana starts talking to me, WTF? I don't like talking to AI's especially during setup when I didn't even turn Cortana on, so turn it off as soon as I can but it still seemed to be "listening" and picked up dialog from the TV going in the background and started selecting the wrong language setting because of the TV, what's up with that? Also during the install it has a whole page full of privacy settings, asking me if it's OK to spy on me basically, I untick everything off course. Next thing is I go to download Chrome using Edge. I think I got told about 2 or 3 times that I shouldn't be using Chrome because Edge is "better", that experience left a sour taste in my mouth. Also I mostly dislike Edge because I am a web developer and know just how bad IE was at web standards over the last decade, so no thanks, I am not using Edge. Anyway, first of all the Bing search results say something along the lines that Edge is better on Windows 10 than Chrome and that I should continue using it, I ignore it and install it anyway. Then I start Chrome and it recommends me to go to settings so I can change the default browser. I went to settings, it sat on 100% CPU for about 30 minutes, after FINALLY getting in there and changing the default browser it STILL tells me I shouldn't be changing the default browser because "Edge is better". I was quite annoyed at the whole process and constantly getting told by Microsoft not to install Chrome.
It is annoying yes, we have a Razer on one PC too and yes it updates frequently and needs the Internet, but Logitech isn't the best alternative either, they are utter junk these days... a company that used to be good but produce a lot of crap these days. This probably isn't a good example, but those tiny laptop sized mice Logitech do, I burn through one per year roughly, they just randomly crap out and you get another one. I keep getting them because they are cheap and just for the TV but still. For my desktop PC I had a Logitech G7, it died, they replaced it with a G9 because the G7's had a bad run apparently. But guess what, the G9 also died. I now have a Roccat.
Probably for a lot of us yes, but most of my family on Windows continue to run Winamp still today as they really like the view that shows you all the album thumbs and haven't found a player yet that does this (Banshee in Linux comes close, but it's a bit less flexible).
Notebooks aren't all bad with a docking station and external monitor(s), I just got a T550 laptop via work and love it, 16Gb RAM, core i7 5600u, ssd, my choice of Linux. At work they gave me a docking station connected to 2x standard 22" full HD screens which is fine to develop on. When I work from home I connect it to my 27" 2560x1440 Dell IPS (sort of like a wall of pixels) which has a built in KVM, I just close the lid and use it like a desktop PC. I had a desktop PC prior to that, but do like the flexibility of the notebook and it's more than powerful enough with the SSD and RAM. I mostly work with containers (LXC, Docker, etc), and occasionally Vagrant.. depending on the project.
And lets not forget the Bulldozer bug, I have been putting up with bluescreens and freezing for years because Gigabyte failed to produce a BIOS update for something that had a fix from AMD also: https://scalibq.wordpress.com/... I have a new system now so not longer have this issue, but it surely was frustrating to get it blue screen several times a day.
I've recently switched from Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and KDE 5 took a while to get used to. I don't care one bit for the global menus as that seems too Mac-like and doesn't appeal to me coming from a PC background. However the biggest thing I am missing is the lack of public holidays in the calendar widget when you click on the clock, I used that a lot in KDE 4.
Nice, but is this codebase designed for Python 2 or something? I am seeing some from __future__ import statements in the code which I find a bit meh today. Personally, I wouldn't release any new project that supported Python 2 anymore, and write straight Python 3 code.
Why are the flash instructions for Windows only? I have a few friends that get into drones, but they all use Linux, as do I. They tend to find it annoying that they have to keep an old Windows laptop around just to flash firmwares. I really hope it's also possible to flash under Linux.
It means its still ARM based and thus it sucks!
Slow? seriously? Really depends what you're doing with it, I have a BeagleBoard XM 1ghz single core, running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I use it as a server to run web apps written in Go, they absolutely fly on this little board. You just have to make sure you try not to hit the disk too much because it's just an SD card. This little quad core board will be the perfect upgrade to the Beagleboard XM for running my Go webapps as I gain more cores and it's running @ 1.5ghz, also it supports an eMMC card which is going to be an improvement over the SD card when it comes to disk speed. One of the things with the Raspberry Pi is that it was based on an older ARM chip that Ubuntu didn't support so you had to run Raspbian instead. I've held onto my BeagleBoard XM because it's a newer ARM v7 chip that can run Ubuntu 14.04 LTS unlike the Pi. I can cross compile my ARM binaries on my desktop for the ARM v7 target and run them straight on the BeagleBoard. Hoping this new little ARM board is ARM v7 also but it probably is.
A friend of mine gets a really high steam level by going into every game and letting it sit idle on the cover screen of the game overnight.