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Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all

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On 2018-10-25, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> RonB wrote:
>
>>Wow, Microsoft really screwed the pooch on the October upgrade didn't they? 
>>No wonder "Hadron" suddenly has a new interest in Linux. He's looking for a 
>>lifeboat.
>>
>>~~
>>More problems surface with the buggy Windows 10 October 2018 Update
>>
>>As you know by now, Microsoft was forced to put the Windows 10 October 2018 
>>Update on ice following reports that it was deleting user files. What made 
>>the problem even worse was Insiders had reported that issue to Microsoft 
>>months ago, but the software giant failed to address it.
>>
>>While the feature update is back in testing, non-Insiders have been 
>>discovering additional problems with it. First up, if you use the built-in 
>>zip tool to extract a file to a folder where a version of that file already 
>>exists (even if it has different data), nothing will actually happen.
>>
>>What should happen is Windows spots there’s a file of the same name, shows 
>>you a warning asking if you’d like to overwrite the existing file, and if 
>>you do, overwrite it. But the warning message is missing, and so what 
>>happens is Windows spots there’s a file of the same name, doesn’t display 
>>the question, doesn’t copy the file, but doesn’t tell you it hasn’t done 
>>this either.
>>
>>Oh, and naturally this was a bug that Insiders reported to Microsoft a while 
>>ago, but which wasn’t fixed during testing.
>>
>>In addition to the file deletion howler, display audio issues, bad audio 
>>drivers, problems with Edge and Store apps, and the above zip problem, users 
>>are also reporting that certain Unicode characters -- for example the black 
>>and white star symbols (Unicode 2605 and 2606 respectively) -- are failing 
>>to display in many apps.
>>
>>While most of these issues aren’t major, and should be easily fixable, the 
>>fact they have made their way through the Insider testing process, even 
>>after being reported to Microsoft, does bring into question once again 
>>whether rushing out two feature updates a year is really such a good idea.
>>~~
>>https://tinyurl.com/y7t6ye7r
>>
>>"Easily fixable." You mean like some kind of magic rite to talk to your 
>>deleted files? What's really amazing is that testers informed Microcrap of 
>>these problems and they went ahead with the "upgrade" anyhow. Talk about a 
>>hobbyware company.
>>
>>Micrsoft should rename themselves "Quality Control Ain't Us." 
>>
>>Oh, and notice that Windows updates cause driver issues ... hmmm ... it 
>>seems like someone here has mentioned that before... who could that be ... 
>>oh, it was me, that's right. 
>>
>>I don't have time required for the grueling process of fixing this Windows 
>>crap.
>
> You are really pissing-off the "true Linux advocate", RonB!
>
> Did you see his lame, impotent, *lie* of a response?  Most people
> would be ashamed to post such a weak "rebuttal", but not "Hadron".

Actually I didn't see any response from "proletariat" on any of those 
Windows inferiority posts. "proletariat" must have reverted to a nym (or 
email address) that I've already killfiled. So maybe it WAS him who went 
ballastic last night. 

Ah well, I'm about done reading his crap anyhow.

-- 
The more I see of Windows, the more I like Linux.

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Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 03:26 +0000
  Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-24 20:47 -0700
  RonB should call himself "Bright I am NOT." Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-24 21:15 -0700
    Re: RonB should call himself "Bright I am NOT." Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-24 21:34 -0700
  Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 11:14 +0200
    Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 02:48 -0700
  Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-10-25 06:50 -0700
  Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-25 08:50 -0500
    Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 16:55 +0000
      Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-25 12:05 -0500
        Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 17:09 +0000
        Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-10-26 07:16 -0700
      Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 12:11 -0700
      Re: Gee, it's a wonder Windows 10 works at all Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-10-25 16:06 -0700

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