Posts by Jrx1216

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Re: What happens when

They tell you you shouldn't have been running it on an unsupported system to begin with...

I'll be honest here, and this may be a spicy take, we needed this. Minimum specs for Windows haven't went up since the Vista era. Either folks need to stop complaining that Windows is a bloated mess of an OS, or they need to stop complaining that it's not going to work on their 386 anymore. You can't have it both ways. If you want it to move forward, it needs to let go of some of the ancient BS it's still dragging along, if you want it to be frozen in time, then don't expect it to be new and exciting.

But for Microsoft's /real/ customers, enterprises, we haven't had a major leap in functionality since Vista, because we haven't had a minimum-spec jump since then. And at the dayjob, we threw out almost everything that doesn't support 11 already, and the few machines we have floating around with unsupported 6/7th gen CPUs need replaced by next year when 10 goes EOL anyway. This isn't a change for the consumer, it's for the enterprise. And the changes aren't particularly unreasonable (so far) in that space.

As someone who uses 5 different major OSs/Kernels at least weekly (MacOS, Windows 10/11, a few flavours of Linux, Haiku (BeOS), and FreeBSD) I'm fully on-board with this. It's giving the other guys a chance to show consumers there are other (non-Microsoft, and non-MacOS) options out there that are actually usable for 95% of what they do on Windows (or more if they only use a browser) and most of them are FREE!

At the same time, as someone who supports a Windows environment at work, I'm /also for it there too/! It allows us to have better security, and guarantee that every system in the fleet will support newer software that the business decides we need, and we can more easily and confidently say "yes this will work on any system that we support"

Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate

Re: Binning the HFS and starting again

I would still want a package manager to handle updates/etc, but I do still /really/ think we need to rethink some of the basics at some point, and I've gotta say, using the organization of the file system itself seems very advantageous to me, and doesn't seem all that far off from the way things have been going anyway with containers and flatpaks, etc.

Microsoft brings World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles back to China

Re: Beatings will continue until morale improves

Because even after all of that, it's still profitable.

Especially when you're the size of Microsoft/Apple/Google/etc., and the current economic climate in the US is "number go up at all costs" you have to take every opportunity like that, or you risk the investors suing you out of existence.

Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

Re: Ignore the SMB/homelabber at your peril...

> If you are using the hypervisor to run a home lab then the actual platform is largely irrelevant,

I'd disagree. I'm much more likely to suggest deploying a platform I'm already familiar with at work than a competing platform, and I'd imagine there are many in the same boat as me. I cancelled my VMUG advantage membership and switched off of VMWare a week or so after the broadcom announcement, and I'm very glad I did... I just wish I'd given some of the non-proxmox options more of a chance before switching to it entirely for my lab :)

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

Fair warning, I'm American. That said, I drink my Taylors Assam team a few times a week, no sugar, no salt, no milk, nothing but boiling water from the top of the commercial coffee machine in the break room and the tea bag. At home, I drink a decaf breakfast blend from Taylors.

I'll also have some yorkshire gold on occasion, but since finding Taylors Assam blend, I don't nearly as often.

As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix

Yep... I jumped ship as soon as the acquisition was announced. Knew it wasn't worth investing any more time on something that would be irrelevant winin 6 months of the deal going through.

Haven't tried Nutanix myself, but I've got some industry contacts working for them now, and have heard a lot of good things.

For the moment, I'm generally suggesting the open source options for hypervisors unless you're an all-in Microsoft shop, in which case Azure HCI is the obvious move. The big open source players have support options now that are reasonably priced, and are all basically either Xen (XCP-NG) or Linux KVM (everything else). Xen scales well enough that it works for Amazon, so it's probably good enough for whatever size you're at too. KVM seems to be more open-ended, but there's open management options to choose from at basically every sub-hyperscaler size you might want, and if you're a hyperscaler, you probably already have a custom KVM management interface ;)

Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as separate edition

Re: Good thing too

I'd generally agree with you... I'm surprised that (before I got to it, anyway) your post had more downvotes than upvotes.

I'm wondering if anyone downvoting this has a legitimate use-case for x86-32 in 2023/beyond that they'd be willing to enlighten me with? I'm not trying to poke fun or upset anyone, I'm genuinely curious what situations this is still useful for.

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in future release

Re: It's an abomination, but...

I've always been of the opinion that anything that can't be accomplished with Excel's built-in conditional formatting and formulas should not be handled in Excel. If you need an actual scripting engine to handle your data, that needs to be a proper database or program that's been properly developed and tested.

Sure, plenty of businesses are doing this wrong, and would have issues if we flipped that feature off, but because humans are terrible at things, they likely already have glaring issues and are blissfully ignorant of them. Almost every company I've seen go through an /actual/ thorough financial audit has failed in at least 1 aspect due to an improperly formatted excel file. It needs to stop.