Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs

On 2025-01-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/19/25 10:53 PM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-01-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/19/25 2:22 AM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-01-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/18/25 4:08 PM, DFS wrote:

On 1/18/2025 1:07 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
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I reject the Win platform as a dead end.

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Windows will long outlive you and all the other doomsday cola advocates.

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Explain how to keep up with demands on hardware without replacing
motherboard every three years.  "Don't upgrade to Win12" only supports
my point.

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Total absurd bullshit.
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You have NEVER needed to upgrade/replace your mobo every 3 years for a
new version of Windows.
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As I've requested several times, make sure to keep your current hardware
around so I can rub your Linuxy face in it when Win13 installs and runs
just fine on it.

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I have to agree with you here. There was pressure to buy new hardware
every two or three years back in the 90s, but hardware nowadays easily
goes a decade with the original operating system on it. However, Windows
in that time will become unbearably slow for most users since they
usually have no idea how to maintain it. Linux, for its part, will be
just as fast ten years down the line as it was on day one.

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And considerably faster if you replace the hard drive with an SSD. My old
computers are "living" proof of that.

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I can't even imagine using a computer with a hard disk nowadays. I guess
it takes severe retardation, like the one Larry Pietraskiewicz is
suffering from, to see benefits to using one.

 
Hard drives work pretty well for backing up files when used in USB
enclosures. That's basically all I use them for now.

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Perhaps, but I wouldn't even trust them for that. The WD laptop hard
disk I got to replace the one that came with my Sony laptop died within
eight months. The one it replaced lasted a year. I bought an external
2TB Seagate hard disk from Walmart and I just found out that it died
too, about two years after purchase. The only hard disk I can think of
that lasted a while is the one in my parents' Mac Mini which is still
kicking after more than a decade. The technology is just not as sturdy
as it once was.

I guess I'm still using technology that "once was," as I haven't any major
hard drive problems since the mid 90s.

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