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Re: Say farewell to Steam

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Say farewell to Steam
Date 2018-08-18 11:07 -0700
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On 8/18/18 4:52 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> Melzzzzz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On 2018-08-18, DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/17/2018 5:10 PM, owl wrote:
>>>> DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 8/17/2018 11:27 AM, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On last job I had Mac to develop for Linux. On new job, they moved me to Windows
>>>>>> project so I use Windows and VS ;p
>>>>>> I was received as Linux/C++ expert ;)
>>>>>> Don't worry, when I finish Windows project I will do Linux again ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> So you're /almost/ a Linux advocate.
>>>>>
>>>>> Congrats - there are only about 3 in the whole world.
>>>>
>>>> Why aren't you running Windows 10?
>>>
>>> President Trump said not to.
>>
>> I use Windows 10 at work, with 16GB of RAM on an i7 it runs fine.
>> With expo view and bash it is almost like Linux.
> 
> I'm stuck on Windows 10 at work now.  Was running Linux primarily, on a dual
> boot machine, using an alternate engineering network because the corporation
> used Cisco crapware to make sure you were running only Windows with certain
> anti-doofus crapware running when attached to their network.  If not, your
> machine is sequestered on a limited-access VLAN.
> 
> But I left the wired NIC to the main corporate network connected, and one
> day I found that corporate crapware had wrecked my Grub partition
> (presumably via the Intel Management Engine), so it would boot only to
> Windows.  So I threw my hands up, and now run Linux in a VM at work.
> 
> As for Windows 10, it may be the encryption and all the anti-doofus crapware
> running on that laptop, but it is DOG SLOW.  And this is on a machine with
> NVMe SSDs and 32 Gb RAM!
> 
> At least the virtual desktops are usable (if still not as nice as Linux's),
> and I found out how to support one wallpaper per monitor and enabled
> autoraise/autofocus on the crappy Windows desktop manager.
> 
> And Word and Excel have a few annoying bugs in them.  I'm not a
> happy camper.  Even the VM itself is faster and smoother than its host.

Curious what Word and Excel bugs you mean?

> At least I can use Libreoffice.  And VLC, which handles Internet music
> streams that Windows Media Player cannot grok.
> 


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Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-17 13:37 +0000
  Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-17 14:40 +0000
    Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 07:48 -0700
      Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-17 14:54 +0000
        Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 08:01 -0700
          Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-17 15:27 +0000
            Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 08:35 -0700
              Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-17 16:25 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 09:29 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-17 16:56 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 10:05 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-17 12:19 -0500
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 10:23 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-17 13:07 -0500
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 11:23 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 11:44 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-17 13:04 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-17 12:56 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 13:32 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 11:27 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-17 13:05 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-17 12:55 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-17 12:55 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 10:40 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-17 23:27 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 17:11 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 10:33 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-18 12:47 -0700
            Re: Say farewell to Steam DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-08-17 14:05 -0400
              Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-17 18:06 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-08-17 20:56 -0400
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-18 13:21 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 06:45 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2018-08-18 07:43 -0400
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 05:26 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-18 13:43 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-18 13:47 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-18 14:04 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-18 11:12 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 11:29 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-08-18 12:15 -0400
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 09:39 -0700
              Re: Say farewell to Steam owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-08-17 21:10 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 14:35 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-08-17 20:49 -0400
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-18 01:13 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 19:00 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-17 19:40 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 20:18 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2018-08-18 07:52 -0400
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 05:42 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-08-18 08:47 -0400
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 06:14 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-18 13:46 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-18 13:49 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-18 14:08 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Chuck Chop <"butwaitthere is more"@ginsu.org> - 2018-08-18 10:17 -0400
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-18 14:26 +0000
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 08:52 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-18 11:13 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-18 11:07 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 18:14 -0700
                Re: Say farewell to Steam Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-08-17 19:41 -0700
        Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 08:05 -0700
    Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-17 16:12 +0000
      Re: Say farewell to Steam Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-08-17 16:28 +0000
        Re: Say farewell to Steam Andrzej Matuch <a.m@vt.ca> - 2018-08-17 16:42 +0000
        Re: Say farewell to Steam Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 10:24 -0700

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