> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 
> > If you are a "luck" person and you run Windooz10, then you find that this
> > multi gadget protocol is broken since ~ 1 year ... hail progress!
> > 
> 
> don't know why corp is doing windows - I think it is pure burning of
> money ... I got one v10 few months ago and it is still laying on my desk
> unused. 
> But I have no idea how this is working with cameras there. The corp is
> paying for it to stay there on the desk and do some work. It is doing it
> more or less good on its own. I alaways have to repeat myself what Linuz
> Torvald said about it - something like a very good company, but the problem
> is they make crappy software.
> So ... times go by and some things never change - amazing.
> 
> > At least on *nix you can fix stuff like this, even when redhat tries hard
> > to break it.
> 
> Well for the Windows, you have the windows admin - a person that should be
> admired for the skill to support "crappy software" :) and keep the universe
> in balance :)
> Honestly ... no idea how those guys have the patience. I had to factory
> restore one PC lately for a friend, because it got unusable after 6y of
> use ... I think it took 8h or more to install all the updates or at least
> to try to ... with numerous reboots in between. I have not done this for
> years and it was impressive experience. In the mean time I could do a lot
> of work on the linux PC that was installed 15y ago. Amazing!
> 
> regards
> 
> 
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Cheers Doc & deloptes, well observed, well said.

Several mates went out of business supporting Vista,
Now, a few more are close to closing because of win10.

All I get at the shop are people bring in there machines to have data 
recovered after win8/10 died during an update (not so much win7).

I don't know how MS stays in business.

The os on this laptop, that I'm writing this email on, will be retired soon 
for Alistair Izzard's big daddy roll of PCLOS 64bit. Thank you very much Ali 
and to all.

The OS is Ark Linux 2008. It's more than 10 years old and it has served me 
well, great infact. It took 7 years to find a replacement.

Any linux, even a bad one, is always better than the best windows edition (or 
OSX but not to the same shocking degree).


Kate

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