Continuing on this tangent topic ...

I need MS Windows for some specific applications and compatibility with some clients. I keep my MS Windows instances isolated (quarantined) and don't allow it access to my other computer resources. MS WIN 7 works fine for me for this need and haven't upgraded to MS WIN 10 and like hitest plan to say with WIN 7 for now.

I've bought and set up new computers for clients with MS WIN 10 installed. I've also used it several hours weekly on a relative's computer (Chrome (incl movies) & MS Office) since August. From a "home user" perspective it seems as stable as MS WIN 7. I have no experience with it in a commercial Enterprise environment.

My simple overall impression is that MS WIN 10 is perhaps close to the final step in users just borrowing/renting their computer and letting Microsoft handle ALL of the details and most of the decisions.

MS WIN 10 seems to work okay but with MS WIN 10 I'm NOT in charge and I know almost nothing about what's happening behind the scenes. But I've never been an MS Windows sysadmin, just a user that learned enough to make things work. I've not read anything about MS WIN 10, I've just used it.

Letting Microsoft be in charge is probably a good situation for the vast majority of home PC users. It works, it's convenient, and they don't have to worry about the details. Close to using services provided online instead of from a local computer. With technology most people (non technology geeks) seem to prefer convenience and "good enough" quality/performance/security.

These are just some personal observations and and weak opinions with my recent limited use of MS WIN 10. Don't get excited.

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All you folks using Winblowz for taxes, watching Adult Swim and such should KNOW that my wife and I use nothing but Slackware to do exactly the same thing. The sooner you throw that rotten conformo-crutch AWAY FOR GOOD, the better off you will be. Google is your friend folks.

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So what US tax software is available for Linux?

The login to FIOS from Adult Swim in Linux doesn't work. Believe me, I've tried.

How was your upgrade experience from 7 to 10? Any gotchas to be aware of? Just curious.

I don't remember anything horrifying, so that must mean that it was so bad that I have suppressed all memory of it.

Actually, it was straightforward and painless.

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Oh FFS! Enough about Windows already!

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We're having a friendly conversation. I don't have problem with the posts about Windows. But, back on topic I guess. Beta 2 is looking very polished. We are closer to release.

Nice to finally have Hexchat and the latest Pidgin.

Yay, I'm in the changelog ^.^

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That's the reason I didn't do it... "Free" from Microsoft is utterly suspicious...

I didn't go in depth, but it seems they "cloudified" a lot of user data, which is just impossible for me, I can't understand this trend...

Also watch for the EULA, they can get ANY of your personal data and do whatever they want with it even publishing it...

I stick with 8. I can work with it, no problem, and anyway I'm always sshed on a Slackbox, or have some VM running so I don't really need to upgrade for that. And yes Game and game dev, but again nowadays machines are "powerfull enough" no to be forced to change your PC every years, which I find a good thing as it improves "stability" of the workstation.

Slackware related: YEAH another ++beta in place, I'm mirroring it right now.

The latest MPlayer is now on all six supported versions of Slackware! Slackware 13.0 as well as the others now has a more current version of MPlayer than Ubuntu 14.04! MPlayer is good at supporting older systems, even better than Firefox (except for the RHEL 5 modified Firefox).

Great to see Beta 2 is out now, thanks PV and team! In a note of warning however to PV: my wife is going to allow Slackware 14.2 to be installed on her computer (currently running Windows 7) so this release has to be rock solid or I am in some considerable trouble .

And a big 'thanks' again for all the work going in to the upcoming release...

When Nexon Corp. redevelops their MMOs for Linux/BSD, instead of Windows, I am always going to have Windows, plus my boss(wife) prefers Windows herself, so I'm kinda stuck.

As for Beta2... Will be grabbing it soon.

I was looking through the new coreutils ChangeLog and this elicited a chortle:

I'm imagining some company employee reporting that bug, and Eggert responding "you know, it would sure help debug that if you provided us with a 32768-core machine to test on" :-D

Congrats. Speaking as a minimal wm user it's good to see that gtk icon issue finally fixed in the stock install, but I'm still going to have to use a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 anyway because the /usr/share version still uses that god awful looking GTK+ theme rather than Adwaita.


Oh well. If that's the only thing to complain about, 14.2 will be a corker.