Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions

On Fri, 31 May 2024 09:55:49 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

 
Imagine turning off (or never enabling) the services that you don't
find useful and can be a significant drain.  I always disable Windows
updates, indexing services, and would never have a "voice AI" on a
computer.  Linux does not have anything like as much of this kind of
nonsense on normal desktops (though I believe Ubuntu had some nasty
automatic search systems for a while).  The only one I can think of
is "updatedb" for the "locate" command.  While "locate" can sometimes
be useful, trawling the filesystem can be very time-consuming if it
is large.  But it's easy to tune updatedb to cover only the bits you
need.
 

Most of the things that you mentioned above are not easy to achieve on
Home Editions of Windows beyond 7.
Some of them are not easy to achieve even on Pro edition.
That's a major reason for me to remain on 7 for as long as I can.