Live tiles for windows 1011/6/2022 I’m blocked from getting at the Windows UWP/Apps folder even with Administrative login(Local Only) and I have to take possession of the folder and its contents to even look at what’s there. I’ve just purchased a new laptop that’s running WindHome and actually shipped with Windand really that’s one darn Nanny sort of existence under Windows 10 and I’m treated like the hopeless child in that arrangement. And that’s been rather easy to get Linux Mint 19.3 installed in a dual boot configuration and pick and choose what gets updated and no Nanny Redmond looking over my shoulder ready to stop me from managing my own computers how I see fit to manage them. So now that Probook is getting Linux Mint 19.3 installed along side of the Windows 7 Pro partition and Linux has better continuous Graphics Driver/Graphics API support for older hardware like the Intel Ivy Bridge CPU/Integrated graphics and the AMD Radeon 7650m discrete mobile GPU that’s came with that laptop as well.Īnd the opensource community’s Linux Hardware Driver and Graphics API support is always ongoing with no EOL for support on that older hardware unlike Windows and MacOS. I was thinking about installing Windows 8(Upgraded to 8.1) on the Probook but it appears that Linux is maybe the better option as both 7/8.1 have not been getting any OpenGL API/Graphics driver attention from MS/OEMs and Blender 3D 2.8 is requiring some newer OpenGL API level support than any 7/8.1 install would allow. I’m getting ready to get Linux Mint 19.3 dual booting with that laptop’s 7/Pro as well. I’ve got 3 out of 4 of my Windows 7 laptops dual booting with Linux Mint 19.3 and keeping 7 around for offline usage and one other Windows 7(Pro) laptop that shipped with 7/Pro but was actually licensed for 8 Pro and that’s an HP Probook. It’s almost as though computing is now entirely productised and driven by and for product strategies and strategies about the strategies and how to drive users in to those strategies. Every software application like Adobe PDF reader now relentlessly forces whatever latest cloud “strategy” they have on you every time you open the app. When all it does is frustrate and drive away. One can’t even open a blog now without being hammered by pop overs vying to “capture” you. Various product and differentiation “strategies” that these companies then literally force on to users and then force them in to using with euphemisms like “capture” and “funnel”. My theory is there has been a focus on product strategy driven design rather than user focussed design. Even Linux fell victim to this minimalist obsession. Android only recently relented from its blinding whitewashed ugly minimalism. It’s not just Microsoft it’s most platforms. What I would like to know is how all these poor design decisions across many platforms over the last five or so years came about.
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