Not again, Microsoft!
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@ingolftopf I used to run AIX at work and Unix at home. I have had a go at many of the other Unix derivatives before finally capitulating and moving to Windows. It was a matter of keeping peace at home and friends and neighbours happy. At that time I realized media-mind had completely usurped observation and reason. Experienced-based knowledge is no match for a thirty second video clip. The reason Coors Light, MacDonald's and Windows are so popular has nothing to do with quality.
I use the Oxford English Dictionary on Windows. There is no equivalent, free or otherwise. It includes the entire twenty volume set and provides quotes for hundreds of years. That allows for an understanding of what people were actually saying rather than what it would mean today.
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@BoonAppledore said in Not again, Microsoft!:
I used to run AIX at work and Unix at home
Really? Which Unix? Vax/Dec? SCO? Sun?
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hmmmm....
SCO through it's many iterations up to its demise.
Sun should have been the OS of choice; it was terrific. Had they not focused their marketing dollars on maligning Microsoft, they could hold the position Windows does today.
DEC was pretty much dead and Xerox had really great technology and simply dreadful marketing.
There is a trend in all of this.
So yes...really.
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@BoonAppledore said in Not again, Microsoft!:
Vivaldi and other non-Microsoft products simply won't install
Are you only able to install programs from the Microsoft store? That sounds like the annoying configuration that shipped with a few laptops called S Mode.
If that is the problem, then you can switch out of it easily by following these instructions for Windows 10 or 11.
S Mode was meant as a competitor to the Chromebook concept, but, understandably, most users were annoyed by it. They also used to make you buy a Windows license if you used the computer in S Mode for too long, but it looks like they abandoned that approach (thankfully).
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@BoonAppledore As Nomadic said, turn of S mode. I got a Surface Go a few days ago, and I love it! It's the most portable laptop I've ever used. I hope this experience doesn't turn you off to your Surface, you might find that you love it.
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@nomadic Seems like they never learned their lesson properly from the disastrous botched Windows 8 launch... forcing the masses into something new, unfamiliar, & probably undesirable while hiding the proven & commonly accepted/expected features away from their loyal user base. LOL
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@dude99 Then going to the opposite extreme, and crippling Windows as a tablet system. Going from one unhealthy extreme to another.
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@nomadic It’s been so long since I purchased a laptop or a fully assembled computer of any kind I was unaware of ‘S’. When things weren’t working as expected, a little research exposed that creative irritation. Of all things Microsoft that might need to be developed further, irritating ‘features’ are not among them.
It allowed TextMagic and Bitdefender to be installed without delay...so it’s selective. I’ll keep chipping away at this and fighting with windmills (Quixote, not electric) wherever I can in mainstream media.
Thank you
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@Eggcorn It's a grand machine for sure. The problem I'm facing now is prying it out of my wife's hands.
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@Eggcorn said in Not again, Microsoft!:
I got a Surface Go a few days ago, and I love it! It's the most potable laptop I've ever used.
I don't know, I think I might prefer to drink a beer and play on the laptop instead...
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