My pixel has crashed once on the Google Assistant. Other than that, no major issues. I changed from iPhone because of the 1) headphone jack, 2) iTunes is a dreadful experience, and 3) Apple destroyed their music app.
Copying music became super easy with drag and drop from Linux and Windows, and the Music app works fine. What I hate about the Pixel or Android:
1) Google music app has no gapless playback? Really? 2016? 2) When connected to bluetooth, all audio needs to go over bluetooth. Apparently, the OS does not know to send voicemail over the car speakers. The iPhone did this flawlessly.
I still find imaging software the best tool for any Windows user. Just revert to an image before the issue, and 15 minutes later, it is though nothing happened.
I use no anti virus and have all my data on a separate partition. The image is of a clean installation with all my software.
No issues with Cinnamon or Mint 17.2. Everything works great, and I could not imagine using anything else right now. I have settled into Mint and Cinnamon since I like the interface and it is compatible with Ubuntu. Over the years, I have jumped around and tried different distros, but I have been with Mint now for years since they do everything right.
What makes TrueCrypt Convenient is that I can have an encrypted envelope that I can drop on a usb drive and then access it from Linux or Windows. I do not always want to encrypted a HDD or partition.
I uninstalled all of the Metro apps. Therefore my Start screen is only used as a launchpad for my icons. I have boot to desktop enabled, so I never see the Start screen unless I need to launch an app that is not on my desktop. Windows 8 can be customized to work how you like it. I chose to make mine just like Windows 7 with all the performance improvements.
Windows 8.1 can be customized to work just like Windows 7. 1) enable boot to desktop. 2) uninstall all Windows 8 apps 3) change file associations to desktop applications like Windows photo viewer 4) place shortcuts to frequently used programs on metro start screen that has NO tiles
I deleted my Yahoo account because of the static search bar and buttons that stays on every page and takes away from your viewable area of important things. Everyone on My Yahoo is complaining about the same bar as it really affects small screen devices and laptops. I completely gave up on Yahoo.
Why would they need a Windows 8 Workstation? Companies can standardize on free Start Menu programs like classic shell. From what I hear, major Computer vendors are installing Pokki for Windows 8 Start Menu since they can customize it.
Windows 8.1 brings back the start button. While it only takes you to the start screen, you can have it go to the all apps screen instead. The start screen is a full screen start menu. I removed all live tiles on mine, and pinned all programs that I launch on it.
They are not copying the interface. Solid colors use less energy than gradients and shadows since video devices have less to display. The flat look is not for aesthetics, but for longer battery life.
If your computer has Intel Anti-Theft, this will super cede the bios. No one will be able to use your computer in any way. They cannot boot to a usb or CD; they cannot access the bios. It will be a brick without the password or correct credentials from Intel.
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It took me forever to get it installed on my clean system due to likely high download demand. I thought it ran slower than Windows 8.0, and iTunes hung like crazy when opening. Other programs will likely need updates when this upgrade goes final. They added shutdown to the right click start button menu. I cannot understand why they NEVER thought about making a SHUTDOWN TILE in the first group of tiles. that would have saved them a bunch of early adopter complaints.
I have a free upgrade that I have not installed. What demographic am I? I am perfectly happy with Windows 7 since it has a start button. Windows 8 boot times are a cheat since it is a hibernation mode. Windows 8 is cheap so people can buy stuff from the Windows 8 store. Windows 8 offers no benefits for desktop computing.
Windows 8 desktop should have been Windows 7, and then they could have the Metro interface as an App. Invert the whole thing and they have no complaints.
I fully expect microsoft to release a patch after outrage of shoving this new interface down people's throats, but there are alternative interfaces out there. I played around with the Classicshell, and it by passes the start screen. However the start screen does flash for about 1 second as it loads.
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My pixel has crashed once on the Google Assistant. Other than that, no major issues. I changed from iPhone because of the 1) headphone jack, 2) iTunes is a dreadful experience, and 3) Apple destroyed their music app.
Copying music became super easy with drag and drop from Linux and Windows, and the Music app works fine. What I hate about the Pixel or Android:
1) Google music app has no gapless playback? Really? 2016?
2) When connected to bluetooth, all audio needs to go over bluetooth. Apparently, the OS does not know to send voicemail over the car speakers. The iPhone did this flawlessly.
I still find imaging software the best tool for any Windows user. Just revert to an image before the issue, and 15 minutes later, it is though nothing happened.
I use no anti virus and have all my data on a separate partition. The image is of a clean installation with all my software.
No issues with Cinnamon or Mint 17.2. Everything works great, and I could not imagine using anything else right now. I have settled into Mint and Cinnamon since I like the interface and it is compatible with Ubuntu. Over the years, I have jumped around and tried different distros, but I have been with Mint now for years since they do everything right.
I tape shows on my VCR. It still works, and I am the master of the fast forward button to avoid commercials.
I am not interested in that game for free. I am so glad I did not download it. I may be tempted if they offer that CnC collection.
What makes TrueCrypt Convenient is that I can have an encrypted envelope that I can drop on a usb drive and then access it from Linux or Windows. I do not always want to encrypted a HDD or partition.
Cinnamon is very good, and much more dependable than earlier versions. If you have not tried it in a while, it is recommended.
I uninstalled all of the Metro apps. Therefore my Start screen is only used as a launchpad for my icons. I have boot to desktop enabled, so I never see the Start screen unless I need to launch an app that is not on my desktop. Windows 8 can be customized to work how you like it. I chose to make mine just like Windows 7 with all the performance improvements.
NoScript users like myself are prepared to only allow certain scripts when going to a new site.
Windows 8.1 can be customized to work just like Windows 7. 1) enable boot to desktop. 2) uninstall all Windows 8 apps 3) change file associations to desktop applications like Windows photo viewer 4) place shortcuts to frequently used programs on metro start screen that has NO tiles
ALL DONE!
I deleted my Yahoo account because of the static search bar and buttons that stays on every page and takes away from your viewable area of important things. Everyone on My Yahoo is complaining about the same bar as it really affects small screen devices and laptops. I completely gave up on Yahoo.
A new company name: Microsoft Mobile.
Why would they need a Windows 8 Workstation? Companies can standardize on free Start Menu programs like classic shell. From what I hear, major Computer vendors are installing Pokki for Windows 8 Start Menu since they can customize it.
Windows 8.1 brings back the start button. While it only takes you to the start screen, you can have it go to the all apps screen instead. The start screen is a full screen start menu. I removed all live tiles on mine, and pinned all programs that I launch on it.
They are not copying the interface. Solid colors use less energy than gradients and shadows since video devices have less to display. The flat look is not for aesthetics, but for longer battery life.
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Hard Drives last more like 2-3 years for anything over 500GB. The warranties are now 2 years on internals, and 1 year on externals.
http://www.intel.com/go/anti-theft
If your computer has Intel Anti-Theft, this will super cede the bios. No one will be able to use your computer in any way. They cannot boot to a usb or CD; they cannot access the bios. It will be a brick without the password or correct credentials from Intel.
Why not just use MINT if you like Cinnamon?
right click on start button > DOS shell selection
It took me forever to get it installed on my clean system due to likely high download demand. I thought it ran slower than Windows 8.0, and iTunes hung like crazy when opening. Other programs will likely need updates when this upgrade goes final. They added shutdown to the right click start button menu. I cannot understand why they NEVER thought about making a SHUTDOWN TILE in the first group of tiles. that would have saved them a bunch of early adopter complaints.
I use noscript. I assume this will not affect third party tools unless I am missing something.
It will be available through the Windows Store which means that a Microsoft account is required.
I have a free upgrade that I have not installed. What demographic am I? I am perfectly happy with Windows 7 since it has a start button. Windows 8 boot times are a cheat since it is a hibernation mode. Windows 8 is cheap so people can buy stuff from the Windows 8 store. Windows 8 offers no benefits for desktop computing.
Windows 8 desktop should have been Windows 7, and then they could have the Metro interface as an App. Invert the whole thing and they have no complaints.
I fully expect microsoft to release a patch after outrage of shoving this new interface down people's throats, but there are alternative interfaces out there. I played around with the Classicshell, and it by passes the start screen. However the start screen does flash for about 1 second as it loads.