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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
| Subject | Re: Windows rant |
| References | <vvbeje$1f97o$2@dont-email.me> <m7tk3aF77rvU1@mid.individual.net> <EJoSP.3666$bRfb.2599@fx16.iad> |
| Message-ID | <3HsSP.783$lK62.316@fx13.iad> (permalink) |
| Date | 2025-05-06 18:38 +0000 |
On 2025-05-06, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> I have one low-end windows laptop, now eight years old, that I
> turn on in April to run turbotax. Takes about a week to become
> usable while catching up on updates. During updates, it is basically
> unusable with 100% disk activity and apparently MS never heard of
> I/O priority management.
And then there are the friends of ours who are not only running
Windows, they have Norton on their machine. 100% disk activity
forever. At least my wife has a Mac.
Paraphrasing Ted Nelson in _Computer Lib_
(he was talking about IBM at the time):
Microsoft is not a necessary evil.
Microsoft is not necessary.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey
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Re: Windows rant Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2025-07-15 16:54 +0000
Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-06 05:13 +0000
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Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-06 18:38 +0000
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Re: Windows rant Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-08 11:50 +0000
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