Posts by memory_leak

Linux on Windows 10: Will penguin treats in Creators Update be enough to lure you?

Windows is good OS from the technical standpoint, there is no doubt about that. Unfortunately there are ethical as well as private/personal concerns that make Windows simply not a viable alternative for me. I do have it installed, and I do boot into Windows from time to time, but it's mostly to do my consulting work for customers that use exclusively Windows. Personally Linux is my OS of choice for all private and home use. Unless Windows goes fully open source, it will never be an alternative. I don't exclude that will someday happen, but I am neither sure it will.

For me there is no reason to use Bash on Windows either. In those rare cases I develop on window and am not forced to use MS tools (I do office and automation development), I am fine with msys and windows ports of linux applications. For the most part all my hobby/private development is done under Linux and there really is not reason to do development on windows in my eyes.

It's like comparing a Ferrari to Volvo. Sure a Ferrari might be flashy (I wouldn't say better), but a Volvo is nice too and does the jobb required just as well.

This week's top token gesture: Google Chrome chokes energy-hungry background tabs

Linux + Firefox with ad-blocker here, for life :-). Chrome is installed as a fallback if Firefox gets trouble with a page or two, but I didn't fire it up single time yet.

Unfortunately Gmail and Google (search engine) as well as Youtube are ubiqutious at the moment. yes I know there are other sevices that offer similar, but unfortunately entire world seems to be on Youtube at the moment, so there is really no other compelling alternative.

Gmail and Google Search are simply superior to other services, so obviously I am still guilty of exchanging my peronal information and privacy for a service with the data mining giant, but most of my traces of the Internet are just in form of a memory leak, so at least it's more or less anonymous on personal level.

Microsoft delivers secure China-only cut of Windows 10

You could use a virtual box on from within your linux to run windows if you realy need it so you can controll traffic in and out from the windows ;-). Lets face it, in most cases, we just need (unfortunately) windows hardware drivers and one or another application still exclusive to windows.

You mean, here is manual on how to open your users firewall so you can spy on them?