Comments on: I have grown to dread computer updates

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:45:30 +0000

I also highly recommend Classic Shell. It is a must-have for every Windows installation now.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 03:12:03 +0000

Neo: “I’m touchy about computers.”

I’m in that club myself. Many very tech savvy people on here. Lots of knowledge that I will never have. Sadly.

I was forcibly moved from Windows 7 to 10. Took me a while, but I’ve learned to use it. Not that my needs are that great. Follow the blogosphere, maintain my investment portfolio, e-mail using Outlook Express, photos, and Office for Word.

Right now I’m a happy camper.

By: NeoConScum

NeoConScum — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:24:04 +0000

Neo: I’m entirely with you on the Yahoo Updates Crap. I HATE all the f***ing “improvements”.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:09:36 +0000

Here’s the Mac post: http://neoneocon.com/2009/11/04/machate/

I couldn’t find it using the blog’s search so I wrote this in Goggle:

site:neoneocon.com “mac”

A good tip, in case you didn’t know it. If I’d read the post at the time I’d have probably written an impassioned defence of the Mac. I don’t care so much any more. Whatever works.

Incidentally, I am writing this on the new iPad Pro. Very expensive, but maybe the best computer I’ve ever owned.

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:36:27 +0000

I run Fedora, which is a cutting edge linux distro with a new release about 2x a year. Sometimes things break, sometimes third party software, mostly gnome addons, is not compatible with the upgrade, so on an so forth, but I know that is the nature of running cutting edge software. The upgrades themselves go smoothly and I like using the latest compiler versions and such just so I can test things. I'm one of the maintainers of the NumPy package and find that helpful. My needs are simple, however: compilers, editors, git, and a web browser.

By: I R A Darth Aggie

I R A Darth Aggie — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:15:37 +0000

I see windows classic shell mentioned. I put that on our windows 10 installs.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:02:30 +0000

I can’t stand Macs either, unfortunately. Used one for 4 years and never got to like it, although I was assured I would.

I wrote a post about it a while back. Don’t have time to locate it at the moment.

I’m touchy about computers.

By: Kae Arby

Kae Arby — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:43:04 +0000

When I was real little, I remember our family’s first TV. It took a loooong time (to a four year old, it probably took a minute) to warm up. In the mid 70s we had a TV that would warm up in less than 30 second and the audio played immediately. By the late 80s/early 90s, TVs and computer monitors would warm up and display their pictures within a few seconds, to almost immediately. Today, with these new LCD monitors and TVs, it takes anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute and a half for the blasted things to boot up.

Progress.
KRB

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:39:51 +0000

On the hardware side, see an article from this week pointing out that the design.construction of some new computers makes these computers impossible to fix (see https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3012121/ifixit-slams-microsofts-surface-laptop-as-a-glue-filled-monstrosity).

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:46:31 +0000

I would add that OpenOffice/LibreOffice are free.

And they are quite powerful. The word processor contains more than the basics of a page layout program (think Quark) and a document processor (think FrameMaker).