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Title: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by Oldfeller on 03/03/16 at 10:09:51 Microsoft, having announced they will begin deleting any driver or software that conflicts with the Microsoft standard bits and pieces has now REPEATEDLY scrapped my utility softwares and my AMD Catalyst Driver for my video card. They are killing stuff in my Linux Directory as well as in my Windows directory and are replacing it with Microsoft brand bits and pieces that do not do NEARLY the same level of good functionality. When your monitor doesn't work well and your printer doesn't work well you are supposed to get all pissed off about it and GO BUY A BRAND NEW WIN 10 PC. >:( AIN'T HAPPENING, MS ....... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by springman on 03/03/16 at 11:39:02 Wow, had me worried there. I thought you meant they were shooting at people in cars. ;D Good thing I have a motorcycle. ;D |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by LANCER on 03/04/16 at 07:41:27 4645475C5B5258545B350 wrote:
Don't laugh ... that is next ! 8-) |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by old.indian on 03/04/16 at 07:49:17 303D323F392E6E6B5C0 wrote:
Don't laugh ... that is next ! 8-)[/quote] Not "Next"!!! Long standing practice around this neck of the woods.... :o |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by springman on 03/04/16 at 08:46:08 I guess that means don't go cruising around central New Mexico. ;D |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by old.indian on 03/04/16 at 10:47:02 2023213A3D343E323D530 wrote:
YEP!!!! Tex-Ass chicken rustlers will be required to show passports and visas to enter...Oklahoma and Louisiana are enacting similar laws as I understand it.... 8-) |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by Art Webb on 03/05/16 at 07:40:06 And here I was thinking of a trip to Carlsbad caverns one fine day Oh well, we got caverns here in Texas, too |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by justin_o_guy2 on 03/05/16 at 08:27:31 Ain't America grand? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by jcstokes on 03/05/16 at 19:15:18 OF, I got a larger "window" saying "Get Windows Ten, please wait". I turned it off before waiting, |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by bobert_FSO on 03/05/16 at 20:36:51 Well, I've got one laptop that Windows can no longer mess with, although it was running Windows Vista and is not eligible for a Win 10 upgrade. I had been dual-booting Vista and Ubuntu for a long time, and hadn't booted back into Vista for a few months. I was running 32-bit Ubuntu and the Chrome browser was complaining that support for 32-bit Chrome would be ending. I backed up my /home directory to a usb external drive using the built-in deja-dup application. I also booted into Windows and backed up my data files in the Windows partition using an old program called Karen's Replicator. I did a fresh install of 64-bit Ubuntu from a bootable usb stick, using the entire disk for Ubuntu. Goodbye Windows partition. I then used deja-dup to restore my home directory. The install and restore was done within an hour. I reinstalled the Chrome (not Chromium) browser, updated LibreOffice to v5 and reinstalled the Wine Windows emulator and a game that I like to play that runs under Wine. All my date files and app settings came back with the /home restore, thanks to Linux keeping all my data, user config files and settings in my /home directory. Two hours later, I had my complete system installed and data files restored. If I was rebuilding using Windows, I would have still been sitting in patch update hell for many more hours. As I need any document, picture and media files that were on my Windows partition, I will simply copy them across from the backup on my external drive. Easy-peasy, since linux can read Windows file systems. Granted, this is not my main computer. It is used mostly for Web browsing and some games and document creation while sitting in front of the TV. However, it can do everything I need it for. |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by old_rider on 03/06/16 at 07:32:12 I was using my little vista 14" laptop to experiment with Linux 15 and 16 and could do a lot of things needed for just browsing, picture viewing, and document storage. I hadn't tried any programs for video editing or office documentation, before I got a boot error... got mad and dumped the whole thing... come to find out, I think it was a hard drive error and not Linux, because a month later the drive crashed. Well, I reinstalled my vista (took two days) and am using it now for my wireless D-Link security system (only 3 cameras at the moment). I am wondering if wine would run the D-cam software, since it is already loaded on the windows side, I might be able to just "link" it. I believe I did a drag and drop on a couple of games I was playing doing that process (its been about 8 months so my memory fails). I do believe I had to use firefox browser because of the 32 bit non-support thing. I am thinking of doing the dual boot thing again so I guess I will find out :) |
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Title: Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Post by bobert_FSO on 03/06/16 at 11:40:38 I'm nowhere near a Wine expert, so I can't tell you what works under Wine and what doesn't. I know Apple itunes has issues. That's one reason I'm keeping a Windows box around, so I can back up my iphone to a local computer. I generally use Firefox instead of Chrome. The dropping of support for 32-bit Chrome was just a good excuse to rebuild the laptop as a Linux-only device. |
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