Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work

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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Definitely been there myself. I've slowly been removing Microsoft from my life since around 2010. At this point, I run Windows in a VM when I have to do so, for work... which sounds very similar to this guy. And like him, I will still occasionally end up having 45 minutes or so of my life robbed by Microsoft over some trivial task that should be extremely fast and easy.

[–]notafed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I do the same. I have windows 10 in a VM for anything that I need for school, like the VPN. (aside: why can't Palo Alto release a conversion tool so that I can get the certificates from the windows VPN client to use with the linux VPN client?)

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Conversion tool- like you have a .cer file but need a .pem file or something?

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The certificates are embedded in the installer which is prepared by the customer for their users. My school only provides the windows and mac installers.

[–]Myocarditis-Man 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Windows will never die. Microsoft could literally put unskippable, unstoppable commercials (with audio) for Pepsi and video games on desktops of the masses tomorrow, and users still would not switch away from that relationship. Eventually Microsoft will, too. If you want to see what the Windows desktop will look like in ten years, look at Xbox now.

~ Posted by a Linux user.

[–]package 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with the overall sentiment but this dude's issues sound like he's running everything off of HDDs, with his boot HDD in the process of failing.

[–]notafed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Good grief. Why is dual-booting into windows to test software like that instead of running a virtual machine instance?

[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This. I'd never let dirty Windows touch my bare naked hardware again.

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have some legacy systems that have specific hardware requirements that don't permit them to operate under a VM, but those are like win2k and dos systems.

[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We have one of those. Mostly for super old inventory apps, just for parallel duplicity of one longstanding customer. We keep it behind its own dedicated firebox, because its infected with some kind of worm and has been for years. No security or inspection software seems to work on the platform anymore and the box is crap, so it don't seem worth more effort.

I think I blinked and all 32-bit/x86 support disappeared all at once.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Windows is busy scanning all the computers on your network with it's "convenience" networking additions, collecting that and all your info it, then sending that to its servers for "telemetry" collection. Just like most software anymore (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Ubuntu, etc).

Windows pioneered the concept of telemetry spying on you with excessive update checks. Each check is a ping to their servers.