Adobe Flash Player is the new Java
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Good point about added software. I forgot how they try and piggyback some McAfee product with the download(Also by default). And don't get me started about the stub installer. What a POS. And to make the full installer so hard to find, geez.
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I love how every new piece of malware, every new hack, every new major software or internet vulnerability is normally follow up with the phrase "only affects windows systems".
Usually, this is the case.
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Did you see the ShellShock news??? :D
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Nope - Whats the new shellshock news?
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That reminds me of getting emails with "Britney_Naked.jpeg.exe". Omg! Click it!
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You mean I wasn't supposed to open that?
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@Phishfry:
The more i deal with Flash the less i like it. On my current WindowsXP daily box I have Flash Player-Mozilla set to alert but not download automatically. I set all my Flash Player settings to None in the control panel for cookies or sharing or camera and yet even after a manual upgrade it nukes the settings and resumes its snooping. This is not an accident but by design. I really have reached a point where it is becoming quite unappealing to a point to where i may shun it. Many of my computer clients bellyached after i ripped Java off there machine too…I can't play my games anymore!!BAHH
http://www.wikihow.com/Upgrade-Adobe-Flash-Player-on-Linux-Mint
Wait.
You complain about Java yet use XP? What?
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Well - At least you aren't being nagged with windows xp updates anymore…. So, thats good right? haha
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What about this interesting business parallel:
Takata Airbags are being forced to recall "faulty"airbags from year 2000 model automobiles.
While Microsoft can unilaterally declare Windows XP -end of life-.
My Windows box didn't have an expiration date on it when i bought it. But King Bill declares it and poof.
Bet Takata wish they could declare their old products EOL.
Just how ling should we expect an airback packed with explosives to last as intended?
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@Phishfry:
What about this interesting business parallel:
Takata Airbags are being forced to recall "faulty"airbags from year 2000 model automobiles.
While Microsoft can unilaterally declare Windows XP -end of life-.
My Windows box didn't have an expiration date on it when i bought it. But King Bill declares it and poof.
Bet Takata wish they could declare their old products EOL.
Just how ling should we expect an airback packed with explosives to last as intended?
I know where your going with this but it's a bad comparison.. Automakers have to adhere to safety regulations while MS produces software. Compare to other software companies, MS at least supported XP for a very very long time (13 years or so). I'm glad to see it go, long live Windows 7, lol…
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By "long" I assume you mean January 14, 2020 ?
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something like that… Its funny, I work for a pretty big corporation and we were still using Windows XP for desktop computer up till about a month before the deadline...
3 factors pushed for the change:
1: being the end of MS support/updates which leads into
2: PCI
3: We had to update our softphone client and the new version didn't run on XPNumber 3 was the main reason tho =D
I still see ATMs running XP
I try to skip ever other version of Windows
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I have little use for windows other to to placate people who use it because "its the standard", which is a condition microsoft works hard to perpetuate.
Just switch my oldest soon to Linux mint and he is happy as can be.
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I have little use for windows other to to placate people who use it because "its the standard", which is a condition microsoft works hard to perpetuate.
Just switch my oldest soon to Linux mint and he is happy as can be.
I do find your post ironic.
You dont like people that use Windows because it is the standard.
Yet you FORCE your son to Linux.I dont know; Maybe you should let him make his own choice.
There are plenty of free legal ways to get Windows.
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I have little use for windows other to to placate people who use it because "its the standard", which is a condition microsoft works hard to perpetuate.
Just switch my oldest soon to Linux mint and he is happy as can be.
There are plenty of free legal ways to get Windows.
free legal ways? there are none. (re-using OEM stickers isn't legal.)
Windows is a commercial product and hasn't been for free EVER.
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I have little use for windows other to to placate people who use it because "its the standard", which is a condition microsoft works hard to perpetuate.
Just switch my oldest soon to Linux mint and he is happy as can be.
I do find your post ironic.
You dont like people that use Windows because it is the standard.
Yet you FORCE your son to Linux.I dont know; Maybe you should let him make his own choice.
There are plenty of free legal ways to get Windows.
Well - I said we switched him - I didn't say against his will.
He made the choice on his own when his windows machine became infected despite the AV running on it.My younger son is also asking to have his switched to linux mint also.
They like the boot time and the responsiveness.
I don't generally have to force them to do anything.
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I have no problem with others using Windows, just one simple rule: Do not ask me for help with it.
I'm not so happy using Windows myself, keep hitting bugs that drive me insane. Just hit a glitch where Win 7 wouldn't create a system restore DVD set. Kept failing with error messages that led to error messages that led to technet articles not related to my issue. Wasted hours before I kicked myself for trying to fix an MS issue on MS sites and Googled up the answer in less than ten minutes. Who'd of thought that not having the C: partition active flag set would cause the Windows system image creation program to die horribly?
Grandkids are happy with their used laptops now loaded with OpenSuse and the Education add-ons. Kids are happy the grandkids have indestructible software to play with and grandpa deals with updates to new releases every year or so.
Mom, now 90, wanted Windows removed from her computer after her last virus issue passed on from another family member. She is also on OpenSuse and happy using the Chrome browser for most everything she does. Only complaint I get is that she thinks one of the card games is cheating.
Wife is happy on Linux for the most part, uses a Chromebook for browsing from her comfy chair as she finds her Dell laptop too heavy, hot and short of battery life.
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I'm convinced that 99.9% of all non-gamer adults would be happier on Linux.
Most adults need a bullet proof, reliable OS and a good web browser.
I look at windows as a gaming platform, not a productivity platform.
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I look at windows as a gaming platform, not a productivity platform.
Tell that to the corporate world!
I like both linux and windows… I tend to use windows 90% because I'm lazy and it works for what I need. At work I'm mostly rdp in windows servers or putty. There a few tools that I have to use that are only for windows... Funny tho, its basically a terminal emulator but has a bunch of export/import functions that are built in and its only for windows :-(We had a bunch of execs that have mac but still have to use parallels or a windows vdi to work...
Everyone complains about viruses with windows... if linux was mainstream, I bet it would have more viruses then windows.
