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Percy
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Message 2 of 48 (771492)
10-26-2015 1:11 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by NosyNed
10-26-2015 1:00 PM


I hope to move to Windows 10 when it is relatively painless and I can see advantages for me in some of the features. For me, to move a new Windows OS is usually a one to two week full time process involving:
  • Reinstalling everything, like Apache, MySQL, PHP, CygWin (Linux emulator), etc.
  • Moving data, like Outlook mailboxes, MySQL databases, etc.
  • Finding ways to make the new OS behave in the way I like. A couple simple examples are swapping caps/ctrl-lock and X-Mouse behavior.
I've heard that reinstalling all your applications may no longer be a requirement with Windows 10, which possibly means I may not have to move all my data, either, which would be an incredible boon given past experience. The moves from Windows 95 to Windows XP, and then from Windows XP to Windows 7, were both excruciatingly painful.
I'm currently on Windows 7.
--Percy
Edited by Percy, : Grammar.

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Message 30 of 48 (865885)
11-01-2019 6:18 PM


Concerning the user interface: I miss XP.
--Percy

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Message 47 of 48 (912587)
09-13-2023 10:02 AM
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09-13-2023 9:37 AM


Re: Windows 10 updates being very slow???
I'm on Mac but haven't updated my machine, not even for minor things, since March because Apple never tells you which updates include a reboot. I'm in the middle of a development cycle with a complex environment (PHP, ReactJS, NodeJS, MUI, MySQL, nginx). I have 120 windows open, about 30% are browser windows, and about 200 browser window tabs, and well over a hundred Emacs buffers. If my machine reboots I would have to reconstruct my environment, a lengthy task.
This is a unique situation for me. In the past I've always been developing in linear languages, a programming style I'm already very familiar with, but in this cycle I'm using ReactJS/NodeJS. I am not yet intuitive writing code that is event-driven. Many browser tabs are open on pages about info/aspects/issues with ReactJS, NodeJS or MUI.
After my next reboot it'll probably be a day before I'm able to resume developing, and it would be days before everything was back to normal.
And so I continue on with my Mac that hasn't rebooted in over half a year. I will likely do an update shortly after I release to the server and have all the new code securely source controlled.
--Percy

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