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Exactly what I did a few months after Windows 8.0 was introduced. Linux for all my general computing needs and a Windows VM for games that won't work under Linux and the occasional photo editing session (I really dislike Gimp!!).
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In two long periods (6+ months each), I have had a machine sitting there with Linux read for use, with replacements for my essential Windows tools installed. But every time I tried to use the Linux tools, I was getting frustrated like h*ll. These "free and open" tools are made by people who never worked with them.
They have no idea about how you work when editing music; they have just worked their way down a checklist of functions they must implement to claim that nothing is missing in their tool. Except real usability.
Same with CD/DVD authoring (which was relevant at the time I tried to go Linux): The number of moves to do the familiar operations were much higher, and did not "feel right". But it had all the check marks in the list.
Document editing also had all the check marks. But it didn't have the operations where they felt natural. The help function was a (poor) joke. And it was more insistent on it being The Right Answer than Microsoft Edge is about being The Right Browser. (Well, that applies to the entire Linux crowd, although with varying intensity.)
At work, I have been required to use Linux based development environments. Coming home to VS has been felt as a relief.
All my major tools have much better implementations on the Windows side. With two machines side by side for long periods of time, I never "voluntarily" chose the Linux alternative. (I had to learn the Linux tools to judge them against the Windows ones; that does not count as "voluntary".) The Linux machine did have some tools that were not available on the Windows machine (to a large degree, today they are), so there were things I would have to do on Linux - if I had to do them at all. I did not.
I will give Linux a third opportunity the day that I find myself in need of some tool that is not available on Windows. Experience has taught me not to hold my breath. My guess is that I will be getting an ARM-based Windows machine before I get a Linux machine. At the time, there are no ARM alternatives suiting my needs, but lots will happen in that market in the next year or two.
Maybe, the day I get myself a desktop Windows ARM, I will also set up a file server common to my old machine and the new ARM. Chances are that the file server would be running Linux, which is perfectly fine. Linux is great for lots of backend server uses. As long as I can use tools on the Windows front ends created by people who have (at least) as much expertise in the application domain as in the latest C++ extensions.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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yes MS kind of sucks.
What Jsop said.
Has anyone ever been able to get thru and talk to MS? I mean in all seriousness.
Other comments in queue. For those that use Linux and find LibreOffice missing some things. Try WPS office. It solved many of the issues that I had with some microsoft integration for excel spreadsheets. WPS worked better than excel.
Seriously though. Linux is the way to go. If you are slight scared linux mint just works and seems like Windows alot.
Last point. IF you are going to run windows. You have to reboot your computer at least once a week or soo. Just has to be done.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Windows having all kinds of bugs and Microsoft not caring about them because too busy researching new ways to annoy users with ads - I can live with.
But Dell not installing lights for the NumLock and CapsLock keys is a crime against humanity.
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Happens a lot lately with our work laptops. They want to talk to the AD long before the VPN is available. Putting it into airplane mode before sleeping helps us.
Is there any nice security sw installed, like Trend Micro suite?
Never happens with my private W10Pro or W11Pro.
Swipe to unlock is there since ages. Swipe, double click or press a key.
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Microsoft doesn't really exist. They stopped being a cohesive company decades ago. This is why the Office team can come up with a "feature" and compromise the entire operating system with a security hole. Based on what I have seen of Windows 11, about 50% of the company simply lies about features. They do not give a flip about complaints.
Microsoft will not change until they are held liable. When that happens - hell will freeze over, pigs will be flying everywhere, and I have a few other things to say but I don't want to say them 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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This is the most entitled thing I have read in a long time.
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Got off that boat 4 years ago... Never looked back.
(except when using client's hardware)
Christian Lavigne
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I suggest you fix the problem by accidentally spilling the coffee on the keyboard. You will then buy a new laptop with Windows 11 pre-installed~ 
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So, it's microsoft's fault that you use a flaky old laptop with a bad keyboard and never reboot or update your software? Those bas+ards!
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Why SHOULD I "update" my software? It work(ed) well with the hardware and I paid for it in full. My needs have not changed. Sure, make new versions available with additional features or "trendy" UI changes. If your system is vulnerable to attack, let me know there are non-breaking fixes available. Don't force changes - especially ones that require new hardware - on me. And in this instance, don't create software that arbitrarily changes its behaviour in an undocumented way even without an explicit update having been applied. Is that really so unreasonable??
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I want a Windows that satisfies MY preferences and needs! To h**l with other users and requests - listen to me, Microsoft!
Maybe the solution is to switch to Linux. That is a place where everyone can have everything his (or her) way. Any developer has the moral right to make a user interface exactly the way (S)HE pleases. Make yet another (Too) Simple Something Protocol. Maybe even making ones own Linux distro!
With Linux, you can roll your own, ignoring all other requests and needs. That is a Developer's Heaven!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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No, I don't especially care how you unlock the lock screen. What irks me is that having worked one way on this machine for several years, at some arbitrary point, without explanation or instruction or explicit "update", Windows suddenly changes its behaviour.
Imagine you got in your car one day and, having turned the ignition switch and depressed the clutch, the engine refused to start - unlike every other time you had ever started your car. After much experimentation (there being NO instruction provided) you found you had to do that at the same time as turning the heating to full and indicating left.
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Edit: I found a temporary workaround by setting lib_ldf_mode = off in the platformio.ini for the project
Latest Windows update nuked everyone's PlatformIO software.
Now whenever you go to build a project and it scans for dependencies it takes a really long time, making builds untenable.
I know it's Microsoft's fault because it didn't happen until the update. I know it's Microsoft's fault because it happens on WSL and Windows but not on real Linux. Finally, I know it's Microsoft's fault because many people are reporting the same problem.
What the hell is wrong with people? When people write bad software it offends me. Doubly so when they impose that bad software on my machine, which they didn't pay for. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified yesterday.
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WSL leaks horribly, running docker with WSL means I have to end the service every couple of days as it eats CPU to the point of eventually making the laptop almost inoperable.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Nom, nom, nom.
These are good chips, what flavor are they?
Memory.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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here, have a hug.
There is a strong argument to be made for small deployable tactical nukes to be shipped, armed to Redmond.
Now, I need to remember where I was in my project because MS just rebooted my machines.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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modified yesterday.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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