Posted on 07/17/2021 12:29:57 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Yes, it will get consistently slower and slower over time with each update. No matter how many anti-virus scans. No matter what you delete. It gets slower to the point of frustration and you say "ENOUGH", I'll try Linux. And I did.
How?
Cygwin64 ?
Cygwin is good stuff. I always install that on all my Windows desktops.
CGYWIN_HOME = xxxxx
PATH = “whatever;%CGYWIN_HOME%/bin;whatever2”
“The Windows experience is consistent, no matter the device.”
They say that is if it’s a good thing.
“They say that is if it’s a good thing”
Gazillion thumbs up.
Why would I want to do that? I can just use Linux for 99.999% of everything I need. When I need windows, I either restart this laptop to win7pro or use the tablet with win7pro as a scantool and for auto repair info software. I can create and edit any file type that Office can, including pdf files. Win7pro is never allowed to connect to a network or the web and I have updates completely turned off. Runs like the day I installed it. Decent but way slower than Kubuntu.
I do a fair amount of personal data analysis for my investing decisions. As a programmer I use the SQL Server database engine to store a bunch of intraday prices and closing prices. I made a C# app to collect the data throughout the day. And another couple of C# apps to analyze the data and get SMA's, EMA's, and a couple of homemade scores for each investment relative to its history. Some of that is using views and stored procedures within TSQL (and some in the high level apps in C#). Even if I took the time to replicate some of that in MySQL it'd be slower than Biden reading from a teleprompter.
And now if you make one wrong comment on social media, Microsoft can permanently revoke your Windows 365 access...
Umm no. You’re not running it on Linux, you’re running it on Azure. You’ll be CONNECTING to it from Linux. But not running it there. And yes Azure has a multitude of ways to connect up. Remote Desktop being the easiest. Funny to me there’s so much buzz all of a sudden. Been running Windows machines on Azure for years. They just rebranded it with the new announcement.
You can put a SQL server on your Azure VM. They also have a SQL Azure thing, but I understand it’s got a few oddities so it’s not just like running SQL on a box.
Couldn’t you already do that with VirtualBox?
Widows takes an hour plus to update and Linux takes a minute or 2
Ha... I’ve actually had Photoshop running (through WINE) on my Linux PC before. Was a pain to get it working, but it worked just fine :)
You can run Win on Linux through VBox (there are others, but I haven’t used them before) without having to reboot. Win actually boots/runs FASTER on Linux in VBOX than if you actually rebooted (and ran) to Windows.
There is a reason I can’t use a Linux desktop? That’s news to me.
I keep one Windows machine around to run those applications that have never been ported to Linux. I am in the process of finally going to Win 10. It seems to me that every new version of this stuff gets flakier and flakier. I really wonder if they are not purposely doing this to make people use their web based applications so they can keep an eye on what you are doing.
"Couldn’t you already do that with VirtualBox?"
I’m not at all fond of cloud computing with Microsoft or Amazon controlling the cloud.
Eh. It is what it is. It serves a purpose.
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