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

On 31/05/2024 12:45, Michael S wrote:

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.

I've never used any home edition of Windows, so I will take your word for it.

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.
 

I have many reasons for staying with Windows 7, but I'll add that one to the list.  (There are some things in Windows 11 that I would like to have, but not enough to change over.)