Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh...
by nickjj on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:45AM
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> The rest of the list is mostly: I don't believe/agree with you.
All of what I mentioned is documented on my site and in a lot of cases I've recorded and published unedited videos of my WSL (v1) / Docker based dev environment.
You are free to believe what you want, but I'm not lying. If it were not as good as a claimed I wouldn't be using it for full time development / video creation.
Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh...
by nipinium on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:53AM
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> I've used chocolataey (ugh)
use scoop instead.
Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh...
by GordonS on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:05AM
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Chocolatey had so much promise, but it just doesn't deliver. At least in my experience, software tends to be outdated, and the packaging often of dubious quality. There are also multiple packages available for a lot of software, so you don't know which one to choose. Oh, and the Chocolatey website is pretty awful too.
I do like scoop, but of course the selection available is much smaller than Chocolatey, at least for now.
Come to think of it, it's kind of strange that Microsoft never created a packaging system for Windows (aside from the Store; I mean for non-UWP apps).
I keep thinking about the eventual replacement for my MacBook Pro. Every time I hear something like this, every time I see MS's open source contributions, etc. I keep thinking about Windows as a replacement.
At the top of the list of reasons why that's unlikely to happen is shit like these dark patterns to enforce invasive telemetry. I don't care how good WSL is, I don't want to be spied on or coerced into allowing spyware to run.
The rest of the list is mostly: I don't believe/agree with you. I've used chocolataey (ugh), and I don't want to do all of my development in a VM. I recently set up a Win 7 VM to get a small C# library built. Turns out it was easier to build it on my Mac and copy it over.
Other than bullshit telemetry and forced updates
Let me stop you right there. I'm not going to consider anything with forced spyware and forced updates. Until those are fixed I don't care about the rest.