In which I accidentally Windows 10
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@blakeyrat are you saying @RaceProUK is like a Reliant Robin? And Robert Goddard is more like a Mazda RX8?
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Because everyone told him it was a dumbstupid idea.
Right, so it wasn't that the idea was half-baked but that it was perceived as such. That makes more sense.
@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Of course, if people had actually read up on the guy, they'd know that.
Of course if you'd explained that rather than turning the rage dial to blakey...
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@Jaloopa said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
are you saying @RaceProUK is like a Reliant Robin?
Can I be one of these instead?
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@RaceProUK Would this do:
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@RaceProUK how about this?
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@Jaloopa I do like Italian cars, but more this sort of Italian car:
I think I'll stick with being a Mini.
Edit: Yes, I've seen a 488GTB in real life. It was silver. And fucking gorgeous
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@powerlord said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@accalia said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
personally i just don't get what all the hate about windows 10 is.... is this another moving of the cheese issue?
I only know 2 people (myself included) who did a Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade. Of those, 2 out of 2 Windows 10 installs had the Windows 10 Start menu (and all other Windows 10 apps) stop working within 45 days.
You'll have to excuse me if I refuse to use an OS with a 100% failure rate (of the computers I've looked at) in a major OS feature for upgrade installs.
In my case, it was the opposite way. I upgraded from W7 to W10 and within 45 days after the upgrade, my Start Menu started working again!
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@Parody said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
My favorite recent
randomunnecessary Windows 10 change is putting the new notifications button where the clock's been since Windows 95.WTF dude. It's in the exact same place.
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@marczellm The Notification Area is in the same place, but the Notifications button is new in Windows 10
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@RaceProUK The clock is in the same place though.
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@loopback0 said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@RaceProUK The clock is in the same place though.
Not in the fast-ring builds. The notification is now below the clock (on a side view). Or to the right on a bottom view.
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@dcon said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
fast-ring builds
So you're using what is effectively a pre-release version of Win10?
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@marczellm For folks using Insider Fast ring builds they changed the order a couple updates back.
My preference would be to have it hide in the Notifications Area with the other occasionally useful but usually not icons. As-is, I expect I'll finally just turn it off on my actual devices when the Anniversary build is released to the world. Or maybe not, who knows? ::
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@dcon said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
fast-ring builds
So you're using what is effectively a pre-release version of Win10?
Yes. Not on my main machine though! Couple VMs and one physical machine. Can't do Centennial testing otherwise...
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@Parody said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
they changed the order
Someone told me you could drag notification things around now, can you drag the newfound icon away from the clock?
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@Tsaukpaetra You can't drag the clock, the notification centre icon, nor the on-screen keyboard button. But you can drag Network Status and Volume.
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@dcon said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
The notification is now below the clock (on a side view). Or to the right on a bottom view.
Can it not be moved?
EDIT:
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
You can't drag the clock, the notification centre icon, nor the on-screen keyboard button.
Oh wow, that is BS. Why MS, why would you entice us with a picture of a steak and instead give us bacon-flavored dog treats?
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@Tsaukpaetra Dogs don't know it's not bacon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4JS4M-DHs
Stupid fucking dogs.
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@blakeyrat said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Stupid fucking dogs.
My bitch would have words with you, but then again she can't talk....
Edit: Also, what she does in her time is her own business!
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@Tsaukpaetra On open-source-shit KDE, I can move the clock to whatever position I want.
Same with the start-button, system-tray, etc.Freedom is good
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@TimeBandit said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
I can move the clock to whatever position I want.
Or even put it all alone in its own bar, for example (for some reason, that's how it's set up. One bar at the top with a clock and a button to log off. The open applications and launcher button are on the bottom)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Why MS, why would you entice us with a picture of a steak and instead give us bacon-flavored dog treats?
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@accalia I can sum up 99% of all Windows hate ever. It's one of two things:
- The OS always gets the blame because it's an easy target, even when ten seconds will prove its innocence
- People hate change because raisins
- All these items are 1
- It is a hipster thing.
- An almost sure sign to know shallow genius assholes
P.S. why quoting you changed the numbering to all 1's?
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@TimeBandit said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@Tsaukpaetra On open-source-shit KDE, I can move the clock to whatever position I want.
Except when you cannot, for some GNU crappy software bug that is not tested, like font size getting big and crashing the system or something
Same with the start-button, system-tray, etc.
Yes. I like to tinker with my OS which is why I like to install Fedora at home. As much as Linux kernel is solid, everything else sucks.
Freedom is good
It is, I agree. But you cannot be free if you are not lonely.
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@dse said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
It is, I agree. But you cannot be free if you are not lonely.
You can to some extent.
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@Parody I trust you used the insider feedback feature to express your dissatisfaction then? So maybe it does not come to the release channel?
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@blakeyrat Damn, I see MST3K mastered Saturday Night Live's "art" of taking a funny skit and running it twice as long as it should be.
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@Parody said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
My preference would be to have it hide in the Notifications Area with the other occasionally useful but usually not icons
What? And not get bombarded with "How likely are you to recommend this build to your friends?" and "hey, Windows Defender didn't find any malware!" toasters? Surely you jest.
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@FrostCat said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Damn, I see MST3K mastered Saturday Night Live's "art" of taking a funny skit and running it twice as long as it should be.
That's the only clip I could find, the entire gag actually stretches across all the host segment of that episode, and that's just one random host segment in the middle.
When this aired, literally the only thing you had to do to make people in your office laugh was say "that Urkel last night!" So you need some pop cultural awareness, too.
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@marczellm said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@Parody I trust you used the insider feedback feature to express your dissatisfaction then? So maybe it does not come to the release channel?
I did a while ago, for whatever it's worth. I think I'm 0 for Infinity between my own feedback and the pile of things I've upvoted, so I don't think it's going to change anything. :P
The one I'd really like to see for folks on a tablet is an option to keep the Taskbar on a narrow edge as you change orientation, but 2 upvotes isn't exactly a landslide. (They disabled letting us set it programmatically back in Windows Vista; you can sort of do it by killing Explorer, rewriting settings in the Registry, and restarting Explorer but that's not nice or pretty.)
Sorry, I've got an Insider question notification wanting my attention. Be right back.
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@FrostCat said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
hey, Windows Defender didn't find any malware
I never get that. Does that mean I have malware?
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@Jaloopa said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
I never get that. Does that mean I have malware?
It's new to recent Fast Ring builds.
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My roommate's computer decided to
self-destructupdate itself to Windows 10 yesterday. Not surprisingly, he wasn't happy that it did so without an explicit confirmation. And he's not even a computer geek! He just wants to read his email, surf the Web, and play Civ.Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
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Just got a text from my mother. "My computer spontaneously started upgrading to Windows 10 this morning. I shut it off before it could restart."
Hopefully powering it off mid-update didn't destroy the OS...
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@mott555 I recommend clean install regardless of whether the system is functional now or not.
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@Gąska said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@mott555 I recommend clean install of Windows 7 regardless of whether the system is functional now or not.
FTFY
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@mott555 said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
I shut it off before it could restart.
I'm taking this to mean "Before it said it was restarting to continue installation", because if she did that, then that probably literally just invited Windows to start doing its thing, and the moment she turns it back on she'll be greeted with a wonderful black screen with a big circle on it.
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@TimeBandit said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@Gąska said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@mott555 I recommend clean install of Windows 7 regardless of whether the system is functional now or not.
FTFY
Whatever sinks your boat. After... (scrolls up)... 7 months with Windows 10, I'm fairly content. TBH, snap-to-edge-between-screens is the feature that will never make me go back to W7 on desktop (as opposed to laptop).
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@Gąska said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
snap-to-edge-between-screens
You can do that?!? Where have I been to have missed it?
... Oh that's right, my only >1 monitor machine is still on Windows 7...
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@Gąska said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
TBH, snap-to-edge-between-screens is the feature that will never make me go back to W7 on desktop (as opposed to laptop).
Virtual desktop, and now this. Glad MS is finally catching up on KDE
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@Tsaukpaetra windows key+left? this isn't a new feature. It was probably in Vista.
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@Magus Windows 7, actually.
Aero Snap is nice to have even without a Windows key.
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@Parody Point is, it works great on multimonitor. You dont need 8-10 for that...
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@Magus said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
windows key+left? this isn't a new feature. It was probably in Vista.
It was implied you could snap windows between two monitors. + would let you snap, yes, but this isn't doable with the mouse (the more common method of discovery), unless you count Dragging a window to the absolute edge, letting it snap, then dragging it back (being careful not to unsnap it in the process).
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@Tsaukpaetra The windows key shortcuts are really useful. Win+X in 7 is particularly helpful, for instance.
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@Magus said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Win+X in 7
... That did nothing on my Windows 7 Pro computer.
Then again, Mobility Center isn't really helpful all that much on a desktop computer...
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@Magus said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@Tsaukpaetra windows key+left?
Ah, right. Now, what is the shortcut for quarters?
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@Gąska that was only added in 10, but from the half screen position you can do win+up or win + down