Msg: Re: still running in Windows 10

BAD MOVE !! The more you learn, the worse it gets. MANY dealbreakers here !!

You've probably been reading about this yourself, but links available on request.

Apple may wind up getting tons of business from this ! And it has me looking at Linux distros again: Kubuntu, Rafaella. Unfortunately, this all seems to remain a hard-core techie backwater. If someone ever came up with a truly Win-like, immediately accessible UI, they would just **kill.** As it is, you have persistent dumbness like always booting up in **microscopic** display (I'm talking about the Live CDs or DVDs, rather than post-install to a HDD, where you can presumably change this behavior), rather than some lowest-common-denominator 1024 x 768 and then inquiring if you'd like a different res ? It shouldn't take 10 minutes + of hunting around, just to get some controls you are able to read ! Near-term, productive functionality does not get a whole lot better from there.

Jordan

From: Jon P
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 3:48 PM
Subject: still running in Windows 10

There's still a command prompt in 32-bit WIndows 10.

I have upgraded (so to speak) a computer from Windows 8.1, 32-bit, and I clicked on editor.exe in C:\XY. Our little program simply ran--but in a tiny window, 8-point type, which had to be changed in Properties or Defaults (I don't know which one worked).

However, it runs better and in a larger window under VDosXY, the gift that keeps on giving.

If anyone else is going to try Windows 10, be advised that it is a privacy disaster. Obviously none of us would use the Express install. But even after a custom installation (and refusing to Personalize, which lets MS record every keystroke), you need to go into Settings/General and Settings/Privacy and turn off a dozen things that Windows 10 automatically opens . Or just stay with 8.1.

Jon Pareles