State of the OS: Windows 10 Edition
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Can you even still get to that screen? I'd love to see what BS numbers microsoft comes up with this time.
You can trigger the 'test' by command line IIRC.
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But does it give you the numbers or show the pretty graphics?!?!
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If you look in the right place.
Run ->
shell:Games.If you don't get the number run
winsat formalas an elevated user first.
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NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Filed under: Maybe I think I'm starting to regret using LTSB-N as my daily driver...
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The N edition? Yeah, that's different.
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Yeah. Reference upthread I guess.
I was sold on the "It'srockCementTitanium-Beryllium-Bicarbonate stable and doesn't bug you about updates!"I've been sorely mislead...
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Who is "all of us"?
You're being signularlist. We speak in plural.
The dev team at Inedo; our laptops aren't that great, but they work fine for what we need.
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our laptops aren't that great, but they work fine for what we need.
How does Discourse run on them?
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I assume very carefully.
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That's what "what.thedailywtf.com" is for!
Like we're going to have ruby and whatever the fuck else discourse uses infect our pristine desktops.
We have like five things installed: VS2015, SQL2014, Office, Pidgin, and probably something else. I think I also have SnagIt installed. I mean, what else do you need? I think I spent more time uninstalling Windows Modern Apps than installing stuff.
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I think I spent more time uninstalling Windows Modern Apps than installing stuff.
Doing It Wrong™.
Fire up Powershell as an elevated user.
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
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It's completely accurately portrayed afaik. It doesn't have features, and they won't change for ten years.
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It doesn't have features, and they won't change for ten years.
So it's like Windows 10: Linux Edition?
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Yeah, especially in the 'If you install this, you're an idiot' regard.
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Yeah, especially in the 'If you install this, you're
an idiotan infathomable guru of unknown (and unknowable) incredibleness ' regard.FTFY
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Yes, I can tell you enjoy it from your comments above about how well it's going for you.
Seriously though, this thing is for things that are almost servers.
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How often do your servers crash? I think I'd get better of all the above of I switched to the server edition (well, maybe excel WEI, but that's just a fun little number).
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Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Whaaaaat..... oooooh that's nice. I will write that down on a PostIt note and hopefully not lose it. That's probably the most important command i'll need going forward with Windows.
Is it possible to remove the Windows Store, and all other traces of Modern Rubbish?
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Is it possible to remove the Windows Store, and all other traces of Modern Rubbish?
Not sure if it gets rid of the Store, but pretty every other preinstalled app.
It does get rid of Edge on Win 10 though, if that matters (it didn't to me).
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It does get rid of Edge on Win 10 though, if that matters (it didn't to me).
All the better. I'm glad their building a new browser and all, but I don't have time to be their alpha testers. I'll wait until it's at least a beta of something.
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at least a beta
Never gonna get there. It's the Edge of development!
Filed under: Maybe they'll have a 5-feet-from-the-Edge browser someday
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The day I log into my OPERATING SYSTEM with a remote account, is the day I have given up.
IMO local accounts suck for personal use. I want all my stuff to be synced automagically like with Chromebooks. Logging into my Microsoft account is the first step toward that.
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It turns out, the boot time on the "Calculator App" is measurable in seconds.
Here's a nickel, kid, buy a faster computer. On my comp, when I run it from the taskbar search, it shows up instantly, although there is that "splash screen" that lasts almost a second.
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local accounts suck
Agreed. I've been messing around with Active Directory for a while now, and can't get roaming profiles to work worth anything...
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I loved that screen! It always said 5.9 on everything everywhere!
Slow-ass POS you had. On 8, they upped the cap to 7.9.
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I feel sad now, my illusion of supremacy has been broken: None of my machines ever got past 5.9 either, and I just assumed that it was because it never went any higher...
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None of my machines ever got past 5.9 either, and I just assumed that it was because it never went any higher
IIRC, Vista was capped at 3.9, 7 raised it to 5.9, and 8 to 7.9. That might not be exactly right. Since they deprecated it in 8.1, they didn't raise the cap again. I ran the shell:games thing mentioned above, and got 7.9, so they didn't raise it for Windows 10, either.
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Apparently Windows 8 raised it to 9.9.
The WinSAT Comprehensive uses the Windows Experience Index scale of 1.0 to 9.9. The WEI scale in Windows® 8 is higher than that use in the earlier version (1.0 to 7.9) because of improvements to system hardware.
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I clicked "Learn more about these scores" and was presented with a Bing search for
how to get help in windows 10.
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At least something happened for you. Nothing happened when I did it (Maybe because Edge isn't my default browser)?
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Yeaaaah .... ever since they introduced that window snapping thing, I have disabled it with extreme prejudice on every new install of Windows since then. It irritates me more than anything else. If I want windows resized or moved around, I will do it myself thankyouverymuch >_<
O.o
Window snapping is probably one of the nicest things since sliced bread!
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My one wish though is that you should be able to resize all the snapped windows at once by dragging the center point. AFAIK that's not possible yet.
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I wish you could snap any window's edge to any other window's edge. Like at least 3 major Linux desktop environments have been doing for years.
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All the better. I'm glad their building a new browser and all, but I don't have time to be their alpha testers. I'll wait until it's at least a beta of something.
... sez the guy who picked Discourse
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It was a beta when we moved. Technically
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The dev team at Inedo; our laptops aren't that great, but they work fine for what we need.
Except getting to your calculator, you mean?
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Worked just fine until they nerfed it!
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IMO local accounts suck for personal use. I want all my stuff to be synced automagically like with Chromebooks. Logging into my Microsoft account is the first step toward that.
That is what Box Sync/Dropbox are for. I sync the files I want to sync. As for settings of the OS, etc -- what on EARTH would I need to be syncing? o_O
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O.o
Window snapping is probably one of the nicest things since sliced bread!
Going to have to agree to disagree on that one.
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what on EARTH would I need to be syncing? o_O
Apparently things like Internet Explorer Favorites, Desktop Background Picture, Favorite Color, Social Security Number, Wifi Password, Name of First Pet, Name of Favorite Grade School Teacher, Child Account passwords and settings...
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Apparently things like Internet Explorer Favorites, Desktop Background Picture, Favorite Color, Social Security Number, Wifi Password, Name of First Pet, Name of Favorite Grade School Teacher, Child Account passwords and settings...
Internet Explorer? Seriously? Yeah, no. I use FF as my primary, and Chrome as a backup, both have their own independant syncing of bookmarks. Which, frankly, I don't have turned on. I have bookmarks on my work computer that I use for work, and I have bookmarks on my home computers which are for home-work, and never the two shall mix. I do have the bookmarks themselves backed up via dropbox, though.
I fail to see any reason, at all, why I would want or care to have computers I own syncing their colors, desktop pictures, or other nonsense. I usually just strip all that crap out anyway, set the theme to the default (plain) theme, and never touch it again for the life of the computer.
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It's fine, and you can Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V on the command line, which is enough for me to recommend it to every developer.
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It's fine, and you can Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V on the command line, which is enough for me to recommend it to every developer.
Hasn't powershell/ISE had copy+paste since like 2006/7?
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[something somthing quotefail something something Ctrl+C/V]
command line, which is enough for me to recommend it to every developer.But not only that, Alt+F4 now works on console windows as well!
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So, Microsoft has said that Windows 10 is the "last version of Windows", which I guess is supposed to mean that it will always be called Windows 10 forever and they'll just keep patching and updating it.
What made me think of this was this recent post on Raymond Chen's blog where a person complained:
"The Windows API lies about what version of Windows you're running, to
cater for some old, poorly written applications. That means the
documented method of finding out what version of Windows you're on
-does not work- because it returns an incorrect value."To which Raymond replied:
"But why do you need to find out what version of Windows you're on? You should be doing feature detection, not version detection."Is it realistic to say "do feature detection, not version detection"? It seems like there are going to be, potentially, huge support issues in the future if Windows has been changed substantially but is still sold as "Windows 10".
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Is it realistic to say "do feature detection, not version detection"?
IMHO, no. I recall a topic earlier this month speaking about how Windows Graphics APIs also lie about what the graphics cards are capable of.I guess we're going to a model of "Try it, if it breaks, notate that you tried and try something else".
