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Use Linux. Problem solved. Of course, if you have special needs (games, proprietary Windows-only software, etc.), you might have to run Windows. My advice woul

Use Linux. Problem solved. Of course, if you have special needs (games, proprietary Windows-only software, etc.), you might have to run Windows. My advice would be to simply use an Enterprise version of Windows 7, which doesn't "upgrade" you automatically, and work on moving away from any Microsoft platforms as quickly as possible.

EpicEng 10y ago
>problem solved And perhaps many new problems introduced (as you point out), so... no, not really.
- zxcvcxz 10y ago
  Linux is a viable option for many people. A good portion of people literally only use a web browser. Just saw a whole school switch to ChromeOS.
- LnxPrgr3 10y ago
  Recently had a project with a C++-on-Linux deliverable. I developed on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the most recent LTS at the time. Someone else tested on 16.04 LTS, which came out between me finishing development and him testing. Code compiled and failed to link until we built libcurlpp from source. In short, Ubuntu's been shipping a broken libcurlpp for something like a year. Further research tells me that's not the only package affected, and GCC 5 has generally made life entertaining. I'm also running 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi, and oh boy is that fun! An even less tested architecture! * Chromium segfaults on startup, and appears to have been doing so for about a year. Ubuntu continues to package completely broken updates occasionally. * Most audio from Firefox goes through what I've been calling the noisy Satan filter. * Initially, all programs segfaulted in ld.so when running in GDB. Currently, it spits out a couple errors and continues. * nm-applet reliably segfaults a few minutes after starting. * For some unknown reason, wlan0 has 7 global IPv6 addresses and counting. But at least it doesn't update without asking. I suppose there's that! Edit: Not that I think what Microsoft is doing is OK. Just think "just use Linux" often causes more problems than it solves, especially for people who just want Word and Facebook to work.
  - zxcvcxz 10y ago
    Still not as bad as development on Windows though.
poopsintub 10y ago
Switching to an entirely different OS is the solution for a bunch of users who are complaining about the difference between Windows 7/8 and 10?

EpicEng 10y ago

>problem solved And perhaps many new problems introduced (as you point out), so... no, not really.

zxcvcxz 10y ago
Linux is a viable option for many people. A good portion of people literally only use a web browser. Just saw a whole school switch to ChromeOS.
LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Recently had a project with a C++-on-Linux deliverable. I developed on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the most recent LTS at the time. Someone else tested on 16.04 LTS, which came out between me finishing development and him testing. Code compiled and failed to link until we built libcurlpp from source. In short, Ubuntu's been shipping a broken libcurlpp for something like a year. Further research tells me that's not the only package affected, and GCC 5 has generally made life entertaining. I'm also running 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi, and oh boy is that fun! An even less tested architecture! * Chromium segfaults on startup, and appears to have been doing so for about a year. Ubuntu continues to package completely broken updates occasionally. * Most audio from Firefox goes through what I've been calling the noisy Satan filter. * Initially, all programs segfaulted in ld.so when running in GDB. Currently, it spits out a couple errors and continues. * nm-applet reliably segfaults a few minutes after starting. * For some unknown reason, wlan0 has 7 global IPv6 addresses and counting. But at least it doesn't update without asking. I suppose there's that! Edit: Not that I think what Microsoft is doing is OK. Just think "just use Linux" often causes more problems than it solves, especially for people who just want Word and Facebook to work.
- zxcvcxz 10y ago
  Still not as bad as development on Windows though.

poopsintub 10y ago

Switching to an entirely different OS is the solution for a bunch of users who are complaining about the difference between Windows 7/8 and 10?