I use Windows 10 on my main computer. It's just an OS; my self-respect and masculinity (or lack thereof) aren't in any way linked to whatever software I've installed on my PC.
I don't know where you got the idea that the parent poster thinks new software is magically more stable than old software, as the poster didn't make any claims about the relative stability of Windows 10 and 7.
Btw, what exactly do you do in order to "keep MS accountable" on your machines? I'm not even sure what keeping MS accountable really means here. (Possibly because English isn't my first language and I'm not very familiar with that expression in this context.)
I don't see how the UI changes have anything to do with Mozilla "selling out". I quite like how Firefox looks right now but that doesn't mean I approve of Mozilla including Pocket, for example.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Pale Moon fork that includes Australis.:-)
How many people contribute absolutely nothing to their society? Picking up cans and bottles from the streets and recycling them is already a tiny contribution. Doing volunteer work for the Red Cross etc. is a much larger contribution. Donating blood contributes to society. Donating one's organs after death is a contribution to society.
I guess most people here know the difference. Many here also know that not everyone is careful with their shift key usage. You've probably seen quite a few people talk of millibits per second.
But how would you know if MS just included the telemetry updates in the cumulative IE update, for example? We're both placing tremendous trust in MS just by running their OSes.
I don't understand why anyone wouldn't remove the Get Office and Skype apps right away. I uninstalled them immediately after install and haven't seen any ads. Also Windows Update or Store or whatever has not reinstalled them. Seems reasonable to assume that not everyone (including citation-needer person) has problems with these ads.
I wouldn't mind getting paid by MS for writing this but I doubt that will happen.
They brought back just enough of the classic desktop to keep people from revolting,
I suppose you're talking about the start menu, and possibly multiple desktops too. Apart from those, there actually seems to be a lot of more of Moden UI stuff in 10 than in 8.1; for example the familiar Windows Calculator is a "Metro" program in 10 as far as I can tell. Windows Photo Viewer can only print, browsing/viewing images happens in the modern UI Photos application.
I suppose I'm missing something obvious here, but why is it important that Seamonkey is faster than Firefox (I'll take your word for it that it is faster)? Surely any browser would render content much faster than a dial-up connection can transfer data?
I assume dial-up means about 56 kbps at most, or more likely around 30kbps; though I'm not at all up-to-date in that department.
There are many, many wonderful desktop applications for all operating systems that are free (as in beer) and don't track the user or display advertisements. So it's not immediately obvious that "free" programs come with strings attached. I wonder why it's so different on mobile platforms; is it just easier to do tracking and ads there?
I haven't tried this myself, but others are saying you need root to do this. If that's the case I'd say it's a serious issue if this is something that an admin would normally do; a superuser going out of his way to lock a system will find a million ways to do it.
A dialog that pretty much only appears when (un)installing software is hardly obnoxious in my opinion. Security popups may well be ineffective for most people, but as a power user I know when UAC prompts should and shouldn't appear; getting a prompt when one shouldn't pop up is a useful warning sign.
I also have to wonder whether Linux or the FreeBSD kernel are actually technically superior. Unfortunately I suppose very few people are qualified to answer; a thorough comparison would be an interesting read.
I didn't notice any change in my keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures, thus no muscle memory retraining was needed. Maybe some icons changed shape or something like that, not a big deal for me.
Woohoo!...except that now VLC won't run at all, and you have to forcefully delete the plugins and reboot your system just to go back to the old version.
I think I learned about uBlock from someone's sig here. It accomplishes the same goal as Adblock Plus/Edge, but uses significantly less memory. A freshly launched Firefox instance with Adblock Plus (only one empty tab open) used slightly over 230MB of RAM; with uBlock that figure is down to around 100MB.
I too first started using Firefox when it was called Phoenix, but I disagree that Mozilla has failed. In my experience Firefox is fast and responsive. Resource-minimalness (is that even a word?) isn't an issue for me, as I don't think Firefox requires unreasonable amounts of disk space or RAM. Especially after switching to uBlock. I suppose RAM usage starts to matter more if you like to keep hundreds of tabs open; it's a valid concern but not relevant for me.
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I use Windows 10 on my main computer. It's just an OS; my self-respect and masculinity (or lack thereof) aren't in any way linked to whatever software I've installed on my PC.
I don't know where you got the idea that the parent poster thinks new software is magically more stable than old software, as the poster didn't make any claims about the relative stability of Windows 10 and 7.
Btw, what exactly do you do in order to "keep MS accountable" on your machines? I'm not even sure what keeping MS accountable really means here. (Possibly because English isn't my first language and I'm not very familiar with that expression in this context.)
I don't see how the UI changes have anything to do with Mozilla "selling out". I quite like how Firefox looks right now but that doesn't mean I approve of Mozilla including Pocket, for example.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Pale Moon fork that includes Australis. :-)
Something like Vimperator installed by default? Most users would probably find it confusing.
How many people contribute absolutely nothing to their society? Picking up cans and bottles from the streets and recycling them is already a tiny contribution. Doing volunteer work for the Red Cross etc. is a much larger contribution. Donating blood contributes to society. Donating one's organs after death is a contribution to society.
I closed Firefox, opened it again, with that post in one tab and this reply in another. 174,192K. I wonder why the difference is so big.
Viewing HTML5 video seems to make Firefox's memory usage grow fast and, more importantly, stay high even days after the video tabs have been closed.
Bittorrent.
I guess most people here know the difference. Many here also know that not everyone is careful with their shift key usage. You've probably seen quite a few people talk of millibits per second.
But how would you know if MS just included the telemetry updates in the cumulative IE update, for example? We're both placing tremendous trust in MS just by running their OSes.
I don't understand why anyone wouldn't remove the Get Office and Skype apps right away. I uninstalled them immediately after install and haven't seen any ads. Also Windows Update or Store or whatever has not reinstalled them. Seems reasonable to assume that not everyone (including citation-needer person) has problems with these ads.
I wouldn't mind getting paid by MS for writing this but I doubt that will happen.
Either quite a few people love him or many distros adopted systemd on a technical basis. Which option worries you more? :)
They brought back just enough of the classic desktop to keep people from revolting,
I suppose you're talking about the start menu, and possibly multiple desktops too. Apart from those, there actually seems to be a lot of more of Moden UI stuff in 10 than in 8.1; for example the familiar Windows Calculator is a "Metro" program in 10 as far as I can tell. Windows Photo Viewer can only print, browsing/viewing images happens in the modern UI Photos application.
I suppose I'm missing something obvious here, but why is it important that Seamonkey is faster than Firefox (I'll take your word for it that it is faster)? Surely any browser would render content much faster than a dial-up connection can transfer data?
I assume dial-up means about 56 kbps at most, or more likely around 30kbps; though I'm not at all up-to-date in that department.
It's an emergency, I'm being offended. Repression is now justified.
I'm kidding, but frankly when isn't there a state of emergency? There are wars on terror and drugs going on permanently, war seems to be an emergency.
I've seen many people do it so I'm wondering: is the strange capitalization part of the joke? I doubt one would write RSysLogD, for example.
There are many, many wonderful desktop applications for all operating systems that are free (as in beer) and don't track the user or display advertisements. So it's not immediately obvious that "free" programs come with strings attached. I wonder why it's so different on mobile platforms; is it just easier to do tracking and ads there?
I haven't tried this myself, but others are saying you need root to do this. If that's the case I'd say it's a serious issue if this is something that an admin would normally do; a superuser going out of his way to lock a system will find a million ways to do it.
I'm curious about this. What are those five steps?
I think right-clicking on an icon and selecting uninstall is intuitive to desktop users; it certainly was for me. And there's always Powershell :-)
I may be a loser, but at least I'm legitimately a loser!
(And there's plenty of proof of it too...)
A dialog that pretty much only appears when (un)installing software is hardly obnoxious in my opinion. Security popups may well be ineffective for most people, but as a power user I know when UAC prompts should and shouldn't appear; getting a prompt when one shouldn't pop up is a useful warning sign.
I also have to wonder whether Linux or the FreeBSD kernel are actually technically superior. Unfortunately I suppose very few people are qualified to answer; a thorough comparison would be an interesting read.
I didn't notice any change in my keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures, thus no muscle memory retraining was needed. Maybe some icons changed shape or something like that, not a big deal for me.
Woohoo! ...except that now VLC won't run at all, and you have to forcefully delete the plugins and reboot your system just to go back to the old version.
Why would you need to reboot?
Could you elaborate on the (legal) issues you have with submitting patches to GPL projects? How could one end up in trouble doing so?
I think I learned about uBlock from someone's sig here. It accomplishes the same goal as Adblock Plus/Edge, but uses significantly less memory. A freshly launched Firefox instance with Adblock Plus (only one empty tab open) used slightly over 230MB of RAM; with uBlock that figure is down to around 100MB.
I too first started using Firefox when it was called Phoenix, but I disagree that Mozilla has failed. In my experience Firefox is fast and responsive. Resource-minimalness (is that even a word?) isn't an issue for me, as I don't think Firefox requires unreasonable amounts of disk space or RAM. Especially after switching to uBlock. I suppose RAM usage starts to matter more if you like to keep hundreds of tabs open; it's a valid concern but not relevant for me.
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