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Windows 10 - a troubling sign of the future of software as a service

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Solitaire

One of my few pleasures, that alone will stop me upgrading.
 
You can keep playing without paying by ignoring ads. People have been doing this on all platforms for years. If you upgrade (or don't upgrade) your operating system based on a bundled game, there's something wrong with you.
 
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DaveOl said:
I'll stick with Windows 7 until it is no longer supported. My experience with Vista showed me not to upgrade until you have to.
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Absolutely. That's why I still run Windows 3.1 on all my machines. I feel an operating system should never change or evolve. I read that there were some problems twenty years ago with Win95, so I never bit into that turkey!

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This board really is full of old men lol.

Here you go- Solitaire for free, along with some other pertinent resources.

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When everyone thought of MS as Evil, and they gave stuff away in return.

So, it now does what the Android environment does (and , I assume, iOS, I have no idea about that). I mean the whole point of Win 10 is for Microsoft to 'catch up' to Google and Apple after all. Why would it surprise you for MS to copy their very successful business models?

But the truth is, when I play solitaire, it is on my phone or my tablet anyway. This won't affect me at all. Most of the stuff MS 'gave' away wasn't very good and didn't get supported anyway.
 
Glen Barrington said:
When everyone thought of MS as Evil, and they gave stuff away in return.

So, it now does what the Android environment does (and , I assume, iOS, I have no idea about that). I mean the whole point of Win 10 is for Microsoft to 'catch up' to Google and Apple after all. Why would it surprise you for MS to copy their very successful business models?

But the truth is, when I play solitaire, it is on my phone or my tablet anyway. This won't affect me at all. Most of the stuff MS 'gave' away wasn't very good and didn't get supported anyway.

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Yes. :(

To me that means obsolescence of perfectly working hardware. :(

I look at my Powermac G4, which still turns on and works.

But I don't use it because there are no up-to-date web browsers written for it and the OS I am using. So it just collects dust in my basement. I've been thinking of running a flavour of Linux on it. But even that will only take me so far.

And my daughter with her iPhone 4s and although it still works, wanting to get a "newer" phone.

I don't really know if I want to stay on this merry-go-round! LOL.

At least with cameras, as long as they kick out a JPG file, they can still be used, even if they are far past their "best before" date. LOL.

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I don't know anything about the Mac environment, I didn't even know there were Linux distros for Mac gear, we never hear anything about that. But if Linux gets you a couple of extra years out of an old box, that's all to the good! An extra 2 - 5 years of use for an old device is money in the bank, in my eyes. You can always recycle a non productive machine later rather than sooner.

Plus you'll get to explore some of those Open source photographic titles that were originally developed for Linux but you suspect the conversion to Mac or Windows was less than perfect.

Personally, I'm wondering if I convert my 5 year old HP, win 7 AIO to WIN 10 or not. maybe it would e better to go with Linux for it and buy a new Win 10 machine when the time comes.

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Glen Barrington said:
I don't know anything about the Mac environment, I didn't even know there were Linux distros for Mac gear, we never hear anything about that. But if Linux gets you a couple of extra years out of an old box, that's all to the good! An extra 2 - 5 years of use for an old device is money in the bank, in my eyes. You can always recycle a non productive machine later rather than sooner.
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That's what I'm thinking.

I don't play games on it, so as long as I can surf the web . . . it'll be useful to me.
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Plus you'll get to explore some of those Open source photographic titles that were originally developed for Linux but you suspect the conversion to Mac or Windows was less than perfect.
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I've been looking closely at that.

Darktable = Lightroom alternative?

Gimp = Photoshop alternative?

Inkscape = Illustrator alternative?

Scribus = Indesign alternative?

What I'd really like to see is Adobe software released on Linux so I could maybe get out of the cycle of OS updates that obsolete my hardware so fast.

For example, I've got what I consider a fairly recent Apple laptop (Intel processors in it.) But I can't run the latest OS so I can't even install Adobe Software on it.

And my PC is still running XP! :O

So even before I can run Adobe Software, I have to obsolete a computer that works just fine. :(

But from casual surfing, I've read that Adobe hasn't released their software to Linux because the different distributions would require different programming. :(

I'd be happy if Adobe just picked a flavour of Linux and said we are only releasing Adobe software on this version of Linux. I'd clear off my machine and run it. Or . . . if Adobe released their own flavour of Linux just to run their software.

Or, for that matter, Google Chrome! :)

My daughter had access to a Google Chromebook last year in school and it did everything she needed it to do for school. I'm thinking of picking up a Google Chromebook for her with its free Office software alternatives.
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Personally, I'm wondering if I convert my 5 year old HP, win 7 AIO to WIN 10 or not. maybe it would e better to go with Linux for it and buy a new Win 10 machine when the time comes.
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Yeah.

Decisions. Decisions.

LOL.

Take care & Happy Shooting!

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LOL... Windows is a virus... I'm surprised most Windows users haven't worked that out yet.
 
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