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I've got an admittedly obscure use-case: testing driver installation, at least for Windows. For Windows 7 and to some extent 10, driver installation in a VM could succeed, but then fail when booting 'natively', or vice versa.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: testing driver installation
Gotcha. That's all you needed to write.
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The only thing worse than writing Windows device drivers is writing installation software for them. They document three ways to do it, and it's the fourth one that actually works.
For what it's worth, the Microsoft hardware department (creators of the 'DDK' (Device Driver Kit) or whatever it's called today), still occupies the #2 slot on my list of development-teams-put-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Which begs the obvious question, who occupies the #1 slot?
I've only had to use the DDK once in my life, back in the 95/NT days. The only part I remember is that it wasn't..."pleasant"...just to be polite about it.
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I usually go for Xubuntu/Lubuntu which have a slightly lower spec requirement but depends on what hardware you have and what you intend to use it for. For my really old computers (more than 20 years old) I tend to use either MS-DOS 7.1 or SliTaz (with or without GUI) but, at least, MS-DOS will not support an SSD. If all you want is web/mail/office then SliTaz/Xubuntu/Lubuntu should work fine on a 11 year old computer/laptop.
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It's a i7 with 32 Gb RAM. 
Not the newest, obviously, but we will not have to go all the way back to DOS.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Then any Ubuntu derivative will probably work best for you since you already used Ubuntu. Xubuntu/Lubuntu are lighter on resources. Kubuntu is more graphic heavy with more things implemented with GUI. Behind the GUI they are pretty much identical.
There are more OS based on debian/ubuntu like Mint but I never used them.
CodeWraith wrote: will not have to go all the way back to DOS
From what I read on news from Microsoft OS releases from latest years, some day, DOS may be the only Microsoft OS left running that does not complain about anything  
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I do have some really old boxes, but this one is not that old. It's a i7 with 32 Gb RAM. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I like Debian
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Quote: Time to install a new drive in my old box
"old box" Good grief! 11 Years old!? Mate you need a new box, not just a drive! My boxes rarely last 5 years before they join that great computer box heaven in the sky!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I have a computer graveyard of desktops, laptops, and printers. My wife accuses me of being a Hoarder. She may be right, but I'll never admit it to her. That would be setting a very bad precedent.
I still have a laptop running XP that I do my taxes on.
Ed
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Keiichi Okabe - Weight of the World (played on piano by Animenz)[^]
I'm still playing NieR Replicant and of course I bought the soundtrack.
I've been listening to the NieR Automata soundtrack as well though and I decided to order the NieR Automata Piano Collections (already have the soundtrack) with my NieR Replicant soundtrack.
This week, it finally arrived (package from Japan, can take a few weeks)!
The NieR Replicant soundtrack is great, but I've been listening to it for the past few weeks.
So I've been listening to the Piano Collections and this song is still great.
The English version of Weight of the World (sung by Emi Evans) was featured in the SOTW some years ago and Emi Evans was featured again two weeks ago with a NieR Replicant song.
No Emi Evans in this version, also not sure who this guy is, but he plays is magnificently!
Its not the Piano Collections version, but it's still SOTW for a great performance.
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David O'Neil wrote: Beautiful! Here's one I posted to a thread long ago: The Lounge - Night of Nights. There are many mixes of that song around, and you can follow the rabbit trail to items like Impossible Piano Song - Death Waltz (U.N. Owen Was Her?). They should keep you awake for a bit! 
Not much into this.
I prefer my (piano) music less midi and more human playable
You should look up "black midi" though, like this one In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg | Impossible Piano Remix | Black MIDI @Sir Spork - YouTube[^] (sh*t goes down at around 3:08 )
Although I can enjoy some good old retro soundtracks.
David O'Neil wrote: Here's a couple toe-tappers: Changeability of Strange Dream: Night Falls ~ Evening Star and CtC Yukari's Theme: Night Falls ~ Evening Star
This is pretty much the right direction, quite catchy too.
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TX6430 wrote: I got from YT also this great version NieR: Automata OST - The Weight of the World (Extended, All Versions) - YouTube
This one starts with the original English version, which was in the SOTW some years ago (back when I played the game).
Second one is the original Japanese version.
Third is the French version.
Fourth one is The End of YoRHa version, which starts in awesome retro style and features a choir (this one plays during the games' ending credits).
I'm missing about 8 minutes of music, so there's probably another version in there, but I must've missed it
All these versions are on the original soundtrack, which is overall awesome 
TX6430 wrote: the SOTW about VEXED had this interesting consequence that my physical album with "Culling Culture" arrived today
Hell yeah!
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... not sure it's worth the money ...
It looks like Win 10, but with bits hidden to annoy me.
As you add items to the taskbar in Win10, it shrinks the spacing until they need to "overflow", then it "pages" them, and you get a very visible "up down" indicator to show you where they are.
WIn 11? Nope, they just vanish, with nothing to tell you where they are at all.
Since I keep my taskbar for "running apps" and those I use a lot having half of them vanish for no good reason so a "chat" button can be added is somewhat annoying ... dump the chat, task view, and widgets and I get back the blood glucose monitor and Teams.
Stupid.
"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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Silly boy, you're mis-using the system. You're only supposed to run Hotmail, Insta and Tiktok. (I would add GTA but I suspect you're already doing that )
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Stop using the Taskbar. Use the old Quick Launch toolbar. I use it on every install of Windows I have
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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OriginalGriff wrote: WIn 11? Nope, they just vanish, with nothing to tell you where they are at all.
Sound like the Office Team.
So, everything is now owned by "marketing".
I can keep up with promising the world and providing a vacuum.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Do they still allow you to pin application shortcuts to the taskbar?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes - and mine were transferred from Win10 - but if you have too many, they disappear off the right end. Win 10 did that as well, but it added a "up / down" arrow thing so you knew and could find them.
Plus the task bar isn't really centered" - its centered in the space that is left when the normal crap at the right hand side is displayed. If I had OCD, that would freak me out. As it is, it just looks wrong and "niggles" at me.
The the positive side, the "active" indicator under task bar icons is a lot easier to see, and the virtual keyboard in table mode is better in that voice dictation works pretty good - it was typing out some cop show Herself was watching last night in roughly real time with tolerable accuracy. I wouldn't use it for coding, but to annoy people on a train it'd be perfect!
"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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 - None of my Start pins made it through the upgrade, which seems lazy. Re-pinning them didn't take a lot of work, but it was annoying.
- Speaking of pins, I don't know if I like the new 'wrapped list' format for the pinned apps or not. My Windows 10 Start had several groups, arranged more-or-less functionally.
- Amazingly, my VPN settings were maintained and still work correctly. Previous Microsoft Updates have broken these more than once.
- A lot of the functional UI changes, especially in the Settings app, really appeal to me. I have significant visual issues, and the changes make it easier to work with. Navigation seems much more consistent.
- I don't care for the constantly shifting background color in the Settings app, File Explorer, etc. There also doesn't seem to be any way to change the 'watery-custard' color used in the window caption and ribbon.
- Why the hate Microsoft? I prefer the classic Windows Solitaire, which was last included with Windows XP I believe. There's a version out there that's been updated for installation on Windows 7 and 10. Both Windows 10 and 11 updates aggressively look for it and uninstall it whenever it's found.
Software Zen: delete this;
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