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The WinRAR GUI also provides some neat features I haven't seen before, or at least not presented easily. I needed to delete a particular file from a bunch of archives (ZIPs) that was in some of them, but not in others and I didn't know which archives had it. WinRAR can search multiple archives within the archives for a specific file or extension, shows the output in the file pane and I was able to delete them all in one hit. Very niche feature, guaranteed not to appear in Windows when support is added. I'm a slave for heavy functionality software - it's bloat until you need it.

Yay I'm in the 0.3%

For anyone who complains that they are free alternatives such as Qalculate for plotting purposes, the value in having the Windows 10 calculator support plotting is that it makes it ubiquitous on fully-updated Windows 10 systems, available without any additional software installations that may or may not be allowed in a corporate environment.

You can still have success in the tech field for sure... but now you're going to have to work extra hard for it unfortunately. The consequence of your felony is such that you need to stand out even more from any potential competition, more so than if you had a clean record. But hey, the only direction you can go now is up.

"No-brainer" depends on who you ask. It seems like a good idea and the tech seems solid... but Zstandard is made by a guy at Facebook and seems to be owned by Facebook as well, since it's hosted on their github: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

On the other hand, according to https://facebook.github.io/zstd it seems that zstd is part of the Linux kernel now, so if you're all-in with Linux then it can't really be any worse. Personally the Facebook angle doesn't bother me all that much because privacy has been completely lost now (and anyone who honestly thinks they can defeat the might of all these corporations and governments is deluding themselves), so I'm all for the change. The code is open after all.

I think it's worth giving drive letters some credit. It makes it very easy to mentally designate a drive, whereas people can get confused about the concept of UNIX-style mount points since people don't mentally distinguish between a regular directory and a mount point (they'll look both the same).

Also Windows has had the ability to mount a drive at an arbitrary location for a while now (so not just a drive letter), but as far as I'm aware it requires the command line to do so.

Visit your local library. I guarantee you they'll be running Windows and you can just do the test there.

Linux may have taken over the world but its percentages are still crappy in the desktop side of things. If you're gonna make the choice to use a minority desktop OS, you have to be prepared to deal with the fact we're still living in a Windows world and things like this can and will happen from time to time.

A typical person won't "lack technical wherewithal to circumvent these difficulties" because even the poorest folks are using Windows in one form or another. It's mostly the tech-heads who choose Linux, and they made their bed.

The file association bug is actually present in 1803 as well, not just 1809. A cumulative update some months ago introduced the bug and subsequent updates never fixed it, and somehow it got integrated into the ISO for 1809 so you'll be fucked on a fresh install. A fresh install of 1803 will be fine... so long as you assign all extensions before updating to the latest build.

It's a complete clusterfuck and makes me wonder why I'm so lazy and incapable of moving to Linux.