Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...

Julian, wrote:
Anyone took the leap and upgraded to Win10 yet? Curious if Edge is as good as the hype.

literally installing it as I type…so if you don't hear from me in a few days… you will know it went bad

Sidehatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Anyone took the leap and upgraded to Win10 yet? Curious if Edge is as good as the hype.

literally installing it as I type…so if you don't hear from me in a few days… you will know it went bad

No so bad so far
Edge is slick….although doesn't do much for the 930 forum site :)

I am a little bummed there is no LastPass support for the Edge
other than that the upgrade was easy as pie and went flawless

You do need to budget some time, I have an SSD and still took 90 mins and then another 20 when I started opening aps and such

Like that time way back when Smackie proclaimed Tangible Media dead, desktop OS's are dead….

[posted from my Chromebook]

On the television service provider front, I'm back in the market as I'm moving and leaving U-Verse and have the choice between going back to DirecTV or Comcast.

Right now I'm leaning towards DirecTV for TV and Comcast for Internet.  I watch too much recorded sports to cut the cable, but I'm not ruling it out yet.

vansmack wrote:
Like that time way back when Smackie proclaimed Tangible Media dead, desktop OS's are dead….

vansmack wrote:[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

Sidehatch wrote:

vansmack wrote:[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

I would consider a chrome book when they make a really expensive VIP one. It seems like a computer for the poor.

Julian, wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:

vansmack wrote:[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

I would consider a chrome book when they make a really expensive VIP one. It seems like a computer for the poor.

Exactly, that's why I don't believe VS on this one

Sidehatch wrote:

vansmack wrote:[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

Why not?  I have a the Toshiba Chromebook and it's the only laptop I have….

I'm looking forward to the Toshiba Chromebook 3.

Julian, wrote:
I would consider a chrome book when they make a really expensive VIP one.

https://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/

Starting at $999.99? Ugh. Can the gurus behind the Prada smartphone get the band back together and knock the Prada Chromebook LeMont out over the weekend? Diamond encrusted trackpad, y'all.

Sidehatch wrote:
Exactly, that's why I don't believe VS on this one

Just look at the analytics.   IT reports to me now, and at our workplace, it's 82% browser, 10% Word, and 8 percent Excel.  We are a Google Campus, so as more people wean off of MS Office products and into Google Apps, those last two are going to disappear.

For my Chromebook at home, I use office365 for the rare occasion I can't get something accomplished in Google Docs/Sheets. 

The only desktop program I still need, I run Virtually - Lightroom in a VMWare enviroment.  And we already know Adobe is taking that to the cloud. 

What's left that consumers will need a Desktop OS for?

vansmack wrote:What's left that consumers will need a Desktop OS for?

honestly not much other than headaches :)

Some businesses can't be just browser based
but doing things via Citrix or VDI is where most people will be going
I'm surprised it's taken so long
All you really need is a keyboard, a mouse (with two button's goddammit!) a Monitor and a network connection
possibly a good video card, but they will start building that into the monitors I suspect

you noticed that Microsoft is giving Win10 away for free…
great way to get mass adoption

(Cloning this from the ransom thread)

Have any of you checked out Windows 10 yet?  What do you think?  As far as speed it seems really great but the look and feel is pretty damn nasty.  They took away the ability to set the theme (I think that is the term du jour) to anything but fluffy and glitzy with terrible color choices.  The default task bar color is black with (get his) black text and there really is no way to change that without making the entire UI look very harsh and unappealing.  The main thing I do not like is the way they modified the start menu.  There is no way to pin an app to the actual start menu itself other than to add those horrible bulky tiles.  Then the 'all apps' section is sorted and differently and grouped by first letter.  The simple clean list of apps and folders was MUCH easier to use.  They really screwed up the entire start menu.  A big miss.

The UI of Windows 10 kind of looks like a bad Mac clone.  Not that this in and of itself is a bad thing, it just gives me that impression.  They did of course give the entire UI an entirely flat look and feel.  Which makes everything blend and run together.  The title bar (I am not sure if that is the correct term) where the min/max, restore, and close buttons are had been redesigned and is (IMHO) much worse.  First it takes up about three times the amount of space it did before.  Then the close button is this terrible glaring burnt orange color.

If you are into bells and whistles you will love Windows 10.  LOTS of those.  I personally find most of them totally useless.  Be aware, one of the things that is in the user agreement of Windows 10 is that you agree that MS can copy and save every document, image, media file, browsing history, web search, and location that you search form and do with it whatever they want at any time.  You can turn most of that off but it is very cumbersome and you cannot (afaik) disable it completely.

Windows 10 is basically Windows 8.2+.  It you loved Win8 you will adore Win10.  If not, stay with your old OS.

This didn't take long!

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/windows-10-may-share-wi-164057617.html

Sidehatch wrote:

vansmack wrote:What's left that consumers will need a Desktop OS for?

honestly not much other than headaches :)

Some businesses can't be just browser based
but doing things via Citrix or VDI is where most people will be going
I'm surprised it's taken so long
All you really need is a keyboard, a mouse (with two button's goddammit!) a Monitor and a network connection
possibly a good video card, but they will start building that into the monitors I suspect

you noticed that Microsoft is giving Win10 away for free…
great way to get mass adoption

the day the citrix receiver finally worked on my chromebook was a top 10 day at my current job

vansmack wrote:We are a Google Campus,

what exactly does that mean and why on earth would they being using MS office at all if that is the case?

I really don't like google apps for complex things, simple doc and spread sheets yes

Julian, wrote:
We discuss win10 over in the Smackie thread. What was your thoughts on Edge?

So far I like edge, but no plug-ins is my first irritation
I use lastpass for pw management and can't now, which may make me not use Edge that much
I don't ever like browsers caching of PW's

but it's quick and slick.  I like how little footprint it has as far as screen space

I got a prompt saying Windows 10 was available for my laptop, but I'm scared to switch everything over to it. I also keep getting tons of updates. I think I got 2 or 3 over last week. Is there anywhere I can try it out before I update? I HATE Windows 9, but I never really got to tinker with it very much. My co-worker has it on her laptop and she's technologically inept, but whenever she asked me for help I found it to be a headache to get any sort of simple task done. Isn't 10 sort of an update on 9? Or maybe she has 8…

I believe my laptop is still back in the Windows 7 era. I've had it for about 5 or 6 years at this point.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote: I HATE Windows 9

no such product

not a big leap from win 8, but does bring the 'start menu' back for those that heat the Metro UI

and you will always get new updates all the time, just the way of computing is in this era

Sidehatch wrote:

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote: I HATE Windows 9

no such product

not a big leap from win 8, but does bring the 'start menu' back for those that heat the Metro UI

and you will always get new updates all the time, just the way of computing is in this era

Yeah, my mistake, as I did some Googling I realized that. Few things I'm not liking is apparently it launched with bugs and there is not DVD playback? I use my laptop as my DVD player and hook it up via my HDMI port to my TV. They're also sending out a big 1 gig update to handle all the bugs that went out with the launch? And it eating your bandwidth nooooo!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/02/windows-10-vs-windows-8-vs-windows-7-whats-the-difference/