Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes

Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by abakker on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:45PM (#16708527)

I have a CNC machine that I control from windows. Windows 10 forced a hard shutdown for updates while I was running a job the other day. No notion that the software was running an active program, no observation that active processing and I/O was underway. I HATE windows. It seems to have more irrational and user hostile defaults than any other system. I'm sure that if I were better about it I could craft an image that worked better, and I could disable stupid things, but in a workshop I never want cortana. If I had wanted it, I'd be playing Halo...

Windows 7 was fine, but the spammy feature bloat is so frustrating.

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by swiley on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:29PM (#16709003)

If you're going to bother making an image you might as well just learn buildroot and switch to linux.

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by abakker on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:17PM (#16709529)

I am tied to Mach3 at the moment, which only runs on windows. I've thought about LinuxCNC before, but there seem to be issues supporting my machine. Otherwise, yeah, I would happily be running Linux.

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