Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.tal.de!news.wtal.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: felix_unger Newsgroups: aus.computers Subject: Re: Windows 10? Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 21:00:49 +1000 Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vpC95YcUm0HMqvax8xVPOQoD66oYwVASM3HpvjgVEMC2ZhdxMV Cancel-Lock: sha1:nJJOx8XeLBjP/pOYcHluD2g3Yzw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: aioe.org aus.computers:46689 On 13-June-2015 7:02 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > Max wrote: >> "Computer Nerd Kev" wrote in message >> news:mlfsc1$86s$1@speranza.aioe.org... >>> Max wrote: >>>> You don't get any updates with XP which includes security updates. How >>>> can >>>> you be happy with that? >>> Easy, I don't care. GIMME YOUR WORST, WORLD! >>> >>> Actually it's even worse than you think - I'm running the original XP, no >>> Service Packs. I never updated anything, except perhaps what was required >>> for the DirectX version I need (and I maxed that out years ago anyway, >>> attempts with later versions crash the installation wizard). >> Any reason why you have to use XP and not Win 7 or 8 ? > Well I haven't got a copy of anything later than XP, though of course that's > because I never cared to buy one (and I consider Windows far over-priced in > the current market anyway, though this free upgrade thing sort of confuses > how you assess that). > > I've ended up being given, or buying for next to nothing, most versions of > Windows from 3.1 to XP over the years (including later service packs for XP, > as far as I'm concerned they're 90% bloat). I'm pretty sure by the time there > are things I truely need 7+ for (and I expect that to be many years) I'll > have a copy gained for nothing or next to it (the installed system limit will > probably get me, but I'll deal with that when time comes), and hopefully > Linux will do the missing task anyway (either directly, or using Wine) and I > still won't have to install 7+. > > I have installed 7, and configured it on machines that didn't > belong to me. As far as I'm concerned the interface takes the more annoying > bits of the one in XP and amplifies them significantly, and XP already drove > me to change core parts of its interface. I hate to think of the interface in > 8 or 10, though I'm sure I'll have to eventually. > > Oh, and I haven't upgraded my XP PC either, it's about 13 years old (it was a > good one back then though). I've got piles of newer machines, but why > configure a new one when the existing one is perfect for my purposes? Plus > it's more compatible with the old stuff I often play around with. > > Also, I'm posting from a 19 year old PC running Linux, so just write me off > as crazy. > OK! :) -- rgds, Pete ------- "When tolerance becomes a one-way street it leads to cultural suicide" -Col. Allen West http://thereligionofpeace.com https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/ http://pamelageller.com/ coming to a street near you!.. http://ausnet.info/islam/lakemba.html Brigitte Gabriel's answer to 'peaceful' moslems.. http://tinyurl.com/brigitteGab "No need for concern. Only 5-10% of muslims are extremists. In 1940 only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How did that turn out?" "ISIS's actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith" -Barack Obama, idiotic President of the USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=56&v=QxzOVSMUrGM