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8 was absolutely useless, 8.1 was a patchwork that made it barely usable but no reason to use, since you could just jump from 7 to 10 skipping over that nightmare. Double skipping is the best. Even triple skipping.
That's my point. The security lies in the user's hands. If you click on crap and open things you shouldn't you can still get infected by exploits even if you run every update 10 seconds after it is released.
Not so much ports any more things have moved to application ID’s more than ports, where it’s not enough to say OH I’m going to let 443 go out, you would say I am letting ssl communication go out on the default port which is 443. But then you couldn’t have RDP try to use 443 as an outgoing connection as the port might match but the application signature doesn’t. Or if you wanted to allow web browsing to an interface on port 8081 you would define both web-browsing as the application signature and override the default port of 80 with 8081 so it would need to be the correct traffic type on the port to trigger the rule. You can then dial that in by locking that traffic down to a user group from a particular ip range if you want. So say Maintenance users from the devices in their office can hit that rule.
Some do. I got a Lenovo 2in1 touchscreen win11 tablet with detachable keyboard for $100 brand new. Stop assuming and check past deals like I said
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But, he'd said that you could buy/build a "better" machine for less than $100. Your $100 dollar tablet is not better than any of the PC I have in my house. Heck, the power supplies in my desktops all cost $100 or more.Some do. I got a Lenovo 2in1 touchscreen win11 tablet with detachable keyboard for $100 brand new. Stop assuming and check past deals like I said
That was in reference to machines that weren't compatible with win11, not your personal gamer rigs. No moving the goalposts. You were wrong.
That depends on your hardware and config an any-any-any-any-any-Deny as rule 1 is becoming more popular for business devices. Home ones not so much.
Even though I use Linux Mint, I setup my UI to look mostly like Windows 7 because that's peak productivity for me. I would imagine some people would feel the same having their UI changed for no good reason. It would also not hurt Microsoft to give users the ability to have an option to setup Windows 11 to look like Windows 10 and Windows 7. I would even go as far as Windows XP since a lot of people did like that setup a lot.
With every new iteration of Windows, we get new problems to deal with and those are examples I can think of with Windows 10 which also happen to effect Windows 11. I myself would not recommend someone with hardware old enough to not be officially supported on Windows 11 to install it. In a work place environment just continue to use Windows 10 and restrict what users can do on their machines. A home user can install Linux and still do all the same office apps as you would on Windows, even Office 365 since you can use it in a web browser.
So good that Microsoft hasn't fixed any of the problems introduced in Windows 10. At this point, they obviously won't since the hardware is technically unsupported through TPM2.0.
My sound card worked fine in Windows 10 until version 1709. At which point when I'd resume my PC from sleep it would just BSOD. This is a known issue that a lot of people had crazy ideas how to fix it but never worked for me.
Would you believe that my Asus Xonar wasn't my first choice for a sound card? I used to run Creative Sound Blaster Z in my PC but again a Windows 10 update started issues. At first I would lose sound when I resume from sleep, but at some point the front headphone jack just stopped working. I then popped in a SB0880 and while that didn't lose sound it also had the front headphone jack stop working. I don't think Windows 10 was responsible for the loss of front headphones but I never revisited those cards. The Asus Xonar was put in because I was sick of dealing with issues with outdated Creative drivers for Windows 10. I may pull out my Creative Sound Blaster Z again since that sounded the best to me, and now that I run Linux I probably won't have stability issues. I could use the onboard Realtek that 99.9% of motherboards come with but I can hear the difference. Especially with Creatives software equalizer which allows me to fine tune the sound exactly how I like it. This is something I miss with using Linux since the only equalizer I have is EasyEffects and it doesn't sound anywhere near as good.
No OS is unsusceptible to viruses and malware but the way Windows handles it compared to Android and Linux, is just stupid. Users are stupid and will do stupid things, but this is why getting all your software from a repository system is better. I don't advocate to go the route of Apple iOS where you can't side anything, but Microsoft should try to push to allow users to get common applications from their store. The problem is their app store sucks. I still use chocolatey for Windows for this reason, because it's quick and easy. Even on Ubuntu and Mint you can get software without needing to do much. The other problem with Windows is how they elevate privileges. On Linux and Android it's rare that you need to give root and should be done with caution but on Windows it's done freely because it's done often. Most Android devices don't have root, which is why infections are rare. I just end up disabling UAC to remove the constant prompts on Windows. Even Steam on Windows needs admin privileges all the time while on Linux it doesn't ever ask for root. You'd think that should have been changed by now. Windows security is so bad that Microsoft uses Linux for their servers. They obviously need to do a better job fixes vulnerabilities.
Not quite the same for Win 11. I've still got a working machine that started with Windows 7 and has been able to upgrade to 8.0, 8.1 and 10. It doesn't however meet the upgrade requirements for Win 11. I know I can install Win 11 if I use the available hacks. Heck if it would upgrade without the hacks, it would be running Win 11.
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Don’t do ports, do applications.
I didn't read it that way since he was responding to a comment that said the 'hardware requirements' where part of the slow uptake to Windows 11. When I sent my comment about the $100 cost he showed a tablet that had a 6500U processor which doesn't show up on the Microsoft list of Windows 11 compatible processors. Is Microsofts documentation wrong? Does the 6500U meet the requirements?
Hmm I was able to get most win Vista / 7 apps to install on win 10
That’s where Untangle comes in if your going that route, or Opnsense.
You need some CPU behind it, it’s thread heavy, so it’s not something you can throw an old 4/4 at and expect good results from.
The people I have using Apples don’t need performance, they just need the battery life. Don’t need big power for Excel, Outlook, Acrobat, and a PowerPoint or 3.
When you are bouncing from meeting room to meeting room, having to carry a charging brick is just one more thing taking up space. Then you are setting up and you're the asshole with a cord stretching across the room saying "Hey watch out for the cord". It just looks bad, and no matter how it plays out you are the guy in the room that looks unprofessional and unprepared.
Man, you must love planned obsolesence.
I can't really say Apple goes obsolete any faster than any of the PC laptop options, sure you can't upgrade memory or storage which is an annoyance but the hardware tends to last as long as the others.
Those are contradictory statements, it is getting obsolete faster exatcly because you can't upgrade them. And if it does have a problem they'll offer to replace the mainboard for twice what the computer is worth at that point. And to add insult to injury you can't even take out the storage in case of HW failure to save your data.
Backups are not excuses for apple's horrible anti-consumer practices. Even though I have backups how much easier it is to just slap the drive into another MB and continue working as if nothing has happened?
It’s anti consumer because you can’t replace them. It would be planned obsolescence if the MTBF is shorter than the expected lifespan.
Planned obsolesecence doesn't just mean designed to fail. It also means rendered obsolete, it's in the name. You can have a working device that is rendered obsolete because you can't add more storage to it, or by not allowing you to install the latest OS version on it. Which is exactly what MS does with Windows 11, making perfectly usable computers obsolete on a technicality.
The competition is not price gouging to the extent of apple. And with other maufacturers you often have the chance to have it repaired or even fix it yourself. Apple on the other hand is actively seeking to block all third party repair and access to parts.
We had someone claim they install Windows 11 on Core2Duo's while there's no way you're getting Mac OSX Ventura working on a Core2Duo based Mac. I should know because I own a few of them and installed Linux to keep them up to date. In that same time period, Apple has already switched to yet another CPU architecture, so good luck getting software support from Apple because at some point they will drop x86 just like they dropped PowerPC.
AMD and Intel have been doing 8 hours of battery for a while now. If you're just watching YouTube constantly then 10 hours is possible on AMD based laptops.
Why would visual quality matter to Word and YouTube is my question? You'd think it would be photo and video editing that would care about visual quality.
I would think Louis Rossmann might disagree with you on that. Especially since you could at least remove the SSD with all your data on it, and transplant it to another machine where you can safely restore your data, or just continue working as if nothing happened.
You can literally have Time Machine back up every hour, 24 hours a day with a drive connected or any other backup software you want to use. So yes, you can have extremely current backups on either platform. I wasn't disagreeing that their current System-On-A-Chip hardware kind of sucks, but your comment about backups is irrelevant as everyone should have backups.
Yes. That battery life is possible on Windows laptops with the performance turned way down. The benefit of Apple's chips is you pretty much get most (if not all) of the performance whether you are plugged in or not. When you unplug these Windows laptops, the performance drops dramatically. But I guess that bit of information isn't helpful for your point.