* Posts by bradavon

5 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Oct 2011

Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10

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You can install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. Just requires a registry key to be changed.

You get Windows Updates too.

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How is Windows 11 a buggy mess?

The complaints have been due to Start Menu elements being removed, not it being buggy.

It isn't.

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The same happened with Windows XP when Windows 98 was still in support.

The same happened with Windows 7 when Windows XP was in support.

And the same certainly happened with Windows 10 when Windows 7 was still in support.

Of course Windows 10 has more usage, it's not out of support for nearly 2 years.

Computers are expensive for most people.

Future Firefox to slurp updates silently

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Chrome isn't open source, Chromium is. That you do have access to the source code, Chrome you do not.

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I hope Firefox make sure this service approach is optional. I hated UAC in Vista but in Windows 7 it makes entire sense and I'm all for the odd (and it is odd) UAC prompt.

If Mozilla really must follow Chrome's (and now Spotify) approach, for Christ sake install into AppData. It's certainly better than installing a service of all things!

Given how often Firefox is actually updated, are UAC prompts really that annoying? Are the "masses" really annoyed at how often often Firefox is now updated? I seriously doubt it. So a Firefox prompt appears once or twice every 6 weeks (taking into account point updates). So what?