Didn't Susanne agree with me by saying you don't need to compile shit on either platforms? In fact I'd say rat lied about suggesting that you have to compile everything on Linux.
You'd only do that because you want to compile a normal web browser. Not because you have to.
Exactly. No one's forcing you to get the 'git' version.
Only if you were poor. The rest of us used SunPC Accelerator and SunPCi cards. I think SunPC could only handle a 80286 without the hardware anyway.
Could Microsoft find a way to move legacy support into "modules" that are preinstalled be default, but over time become optional or a paid feature? That would help solve some of the issues even if there was a slight performance overhead
Yep, One high impact outage can lose so much outage can lose billions. MS has little viable competition in their primary market but if they started patching out features on a whim that could change pretty damn fast. Businesses don't care about benefits to software quality as unfortunate as it may be. Not unless its their core product. If your inconvenience means Walmart can run business normally for 1 more week its an easy choice for Microsoft.
They do this to an extent, look up "Turn Windows Features On and Off". They are simply conservative with these decisions. The features tend to be protocols that have been replaced and have security vulnerabilities. If there isn't a suitable replacement and it isn't losing them money then they aren't going to try and retire it. There is little benefit to them to try and encourage the retirement of these features because they can largely ignore them. Retiring them takes resources, and will piss off certain customers. Its important to remember that there are many small businesses making terrible decisions, and those small businesses will throw a fit if something stops working. Lots of small businesses hire the owners son whose main technical skill is gaming to manage their networks. Many businesses will insist on keeping around a 20+ year old server that hasn't gotten security patches in 10 years because they definitely need to have immediate access to an old invoice for 15 years ago. MS has to accommodate these people because it is a part of the business model. I'd love for them to be more aggressive and save these morons from their mistakes, but it wouldn't be profitable for them.
The need for massive legacy support has hampered Microsoft's every attempt to innovate the personal computer device, such as smartphones, tablets, and possibly the hololens
I hope windows 11 is finished by 2032 because LTSC IoT support runs out then.
When even your OS is stuck in Early Access hell forever now
I've never paid for a Windows license. That's what stickers on the side of machines at your place of business, or other people's places of business, are for.
What's "free support money?" You can still pay for extended support if you want to keep getting updates.
Based on the checkmark I'm guessing this is a OneDrive managed folder and somehow the files aren't really here but are only on OneDrive?
Did you change your default app for opening pictures? Sometimes third party apps seem to break thumbnails
Nope, and you can't.
It's been a long time since I've done it (it was back when Windows Vista was relevant) but isn't there a way to have bootmgr give an option for Linux? I used to prefer that for a variety of reasons.
