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by mappu
3666 days ago
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>Don't want to derail with Windows 10 arguments, but for me, that's a total deal breaker at this time. I'll bite. What's holding you back? Ever since 7 / 8.1 got telemetry backported in, they're on equal footing with 10 from a privacy standpoint. I guess you could cherry-pick out which windows updates you want to install, but that's frankly unsustainable. You may as well get the new WDDM, the new DirectX 12, the new virtual desktop support, the new command prompt, and all of that. >if I find out Windows 10 can handle LF-formatted text in Notepad, I'll have to check and see if Hell froze over :P It doesn't, and it hasn't :P Love your work by the way. bsnes/higan is a significant contribution to the human race. |
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I primarily run FreeBSD. But when I run Windows, it's a fresh SP1 install with updates disabled. I am not worried about the safety of it. I have a firewall, behind a router, and I don't install much of anything. I just use Windows for chatting and browsing online, watching streaming media services, etc. If something were to become compromised, I'd just wipe the drive with nothing of value lost or stolen in the process. I have another Windows box that doesn't even have internet access that is solely used to build and release Windows ports of my software.
Telemetry is part of it. I also find the interface ugly as sin (duller than Windows 3.1), don't like how bloated it's becoming (Metro tiles, Cortana, etc), don't like how difficult it is to disable updates, etc.
To be honest, if I had my way, I'd be on Windows XP (classic mode) still for what I use Windows for. The main draw to 7 was that XP's 64-bit drivers were mostly garbage or just plain unavailable; and I have lots of RAM and like the speed boost for 64-bit software too much.
> Love your work by the way.
Thank you very much! But ...
> bsnes/higan is a significant contribution to the human race.
I don't know about all that o_O'
At the end of the day, it's just video games.