Ubuntu on Windows 10

[GT182]

I was told by one of the MS tech guys at the MS store in our Mall that windows 10 is the last OS build they will do. Maybe that's the reason for MS and Linux working together more than before.

He was serious, and a couple others standing there with him agreed. If you have a MS store near you, go in and ask if MS is working on Windows 11.

[Rockin Robbins]

One of the complaints of programmers about Windows 10 has been that changes to Windows 10 have been draconian, large scale changes that break software, not updates in the traditional sense of the word.

When they deleted and renamed plugged their telemetry modules back in under a new name that was typical of the shenanigans Microsoft has been up to. Their idea is that version numbers are no longer necessary since you have no choice but to upgrade your operating system whatever they choose to do with it, no matter what vital programs you depend on for your business' survival. Yes, on the enterprise versions you can postpone updates. But they WILL HAPPEN and without some serious hacking you cannot avoid that.

So the plan is that Windows will change, just as it always has. But what they are not doing any more is version numbers. Changes to Windows yes, version numbers no.

So the techies at the MS store were like the guys at the Geek Squad. How many times have I fixed computers after Geek Squad screwed them up totally? Many. The techies are parroting Microsoft propaganda by rote and without actually studying the material to see what it really means.

Even if a new Windows 10 crew takes a shine to the KDE GUI and replaces the entire GUI with a "specially modified" (that means crippled and poorly understood) KDE GUI, it will still be called Windows 10. Yes there will be a hidden build number that will be difficult to dig out without Belarc Security Advisor, and it will tell you which version of Windows 10 you have. For instance the newest Insider version of Windows 10 is release 14316. The release number replaces the version number as a tool to let you know what species of Windows 10 you have.

It's all a game, meaning very, very little. Windows will continue to change in unpredictable ways that we will like or else. The bought and paid for Windows journalists will continue to crow how Windows is the best ever. People's standards of what they accept as an operating system will degrade and degrade as resistance is supposed to be futile. The trend to leave 3D, a fantastic advance in graphics from about 2005 and return to flat 2D with all sharp corners and a small choice of garish ugly colors presages the revolutionary advance to MS-DOS 3.3 for the future! No rules. Every program decides how it will operate completely independently! Thick manuals must be nearly memorized to begin to operate any program. The manuals describe how the program SHOULD work, but your job is to find out by trial and terror how it REALLY works.

We'll be back to 1990 and the wonderful days of dBase III+. It will be hailed as a wonderful innovation. Oh, did I mention that you'll get to choose from 16 different colors? Bring back CGA!