Windows 10

[Frank MetaMusil]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

This is interesting, Microsoft is bringing the full Unix bash command shell into Windows 10, running natively

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11...ux-ubuntu-bash

And apparently anything that runs on Ubuntu will run in Windows 10, no emulators or VM's needed

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/...ndows.html?m=1

Effing finally. Hopefully it's not 2.6 or some swiss cheese version unless you pay.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Corrections:The article you've quoted is specifically talking about the limitations of Rise of the Tomb Raider through the Windows Store.

Important points from the article that were, for some reason, omitted from the post here:
1. SLI and CrossFire are supported if the game supports it. (RotTR didn't for whatever reason.)
2. Always On VSync is being fixed, per Mike Ybarra.

Yeah, looks like they're going to fix the V-sync, G-sync, and fullscreen(?) in May sometime.

Still going to lockdown on mods. Probably nothing but developer sanctioned ones? Not what I'd like to see from a store where they want me to spend money. The "malicious code" justification is kinda lame.

http://www.pcgamer.com/microsofts-uw...s-but-not-all/

This idea that things can kind of run amok on the machine, and put, I’m going to say, malicious code—not saying mods are malicious, but it’s hard to differentiate."

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil

Effing finally. Hopefully it's not 2.6 or some swiss cheese version unless you pay.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/...ndows.html?m=1

[psyang]

Originally Posted by keratosis

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/...ndows.html?m=1

Wow. I can't count how many times I've wanted sed, awk, find, and grep in Windows. Or head and tail. I've used Cygwin in the past, but it was a hassle, especially on client machines where I can't just install what I want.

Powershell was a step in the right direction, but who likes typing commands that are 20 characters long and mixed case?

At least I've let go of emacs' hold on me, though I may try it again for old times sake.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by psyang

Wow. I can't count how many times I've wanted sed, awk, find, and grep in Windows. Or head and tail. I've used Cygwin in the past, but it was a hassle, especially on client machines where I can't just install what I want.

Powershell was a step in the right direction, but who likes typing commands that are 20 characters long and mixed case?

At least I've let go of emacs' hold on me, though I may try it again for old times sake.

PowerShell isn't "mixed case". The cmdlets are formatted that way when you auto-complete them using [Tab] or when you see them documented because it's easier for people to read and understand them properly. But Get-CsUser -Identity 'Joe' and get-csuser -identity 'joe' will return the same results.

[psyang]

Wow, I guess that shows how often I've had to use power shell.

[Inglewood Jack]

PowerShell also has all kinds of syntax shortcuts, aliases and tricks such that you can make a command as verbose or as cryptic as you like. I want to love PS and master it so badly, but after years of fits and starts, I just can't assimilate it the same way as other languages. not sure what it is, but I still can almost never type out a command without either googling an example or looking at my previous code.

[Aegypticus]

I like how Windows 10 has the option to set a pin for login instead of a password, and I've been using one. The thing that's driving me absolutely crazy is that it doesn't remember to turn on numlock when I start my computer. It's apparently supposed to remember what state you prefer, but mine seems to just do whatever the hell it wants. It's about 50/50 whether it turns it on or not. I even applied a registry tweak that was supposed to set it to always on when you start up, but no dice.

Just wanted to throw that gear grinder out there. Maybe someone has a solution.

[Fuzz]

Check in your BIOS, some of them have a config setting for it.

Powershell ...ugh as a part time system admin I have no patience for it. I've thought about learning it a few times, but it just seams overly complex for a CLI. I'm sure it's powerful, but I'll never know because it scares me off.

[Aegypticus]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Check in your BIOS, some of them have a config setting for it.

Yep, did that too. It's set properly.

[Fuzz]

Call Microsoft and ask for your money back

[Aegypticus]

Heh, well, I guess if that's my biggest complaint about Windows 10 so far I'm in good shape. I waited until last month to install it on my main computer because of all the problems I've heard about, but so far, it's been great for me.

My only other (minor) problems have been with poor support from 3rd parties. My Xonar DSX sound card still doesn't have updated drivers for Windows 10, which causes Skype to have issues when I try to shut down. While I like the card, I'm strongly considering pulling the card and going back to onboard sound.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Powershell ...ugh as a part time system admin I have no patience for it. I've thought about learning it a few times, but it just seams overly complex for a CLI. I'm sure it's powerful, but I'll never know because it scares me off.

If you do full time operations, learning PowerShell is a must. You can save yourself so much time and effort if you can effectively automate your tasks, from user provisioning/deprovisioning, maintenance, and other repetitive or otherwise time-consuming tasks. There are sometimes means of doing tasks like that with .cmd or .vbs, but on the whole, PS is a far more scalable approach.

A student I taught once told me PowerShell allows him to be a complete slacker at work, because he's scripted most of his daily tasks. Yet he gets credit for it.

[photon]

Hopefully this'll make life easier for developers (well non-MS developers), many things that are harder to do on Windows, or require manual effort, this could make it way easier.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by Aegypticus

I like how Windows 10 has the option to set a pin for login instead of a password, and I've been using one. The thing that's driving me absolutely crazy is that it doesn't remember to turn on numlock when I start my computer. It's apparently supposed to remember what state you prefer, but mine seems to just do whatever the hell it wants. It's about 50/50 whether it turns it on or not. I even applied a registry tweak that was supposed to set it to always on when you start up, but no dice.

Just wanted to throw that gear grinder out there. Maybe someone has a solution.

I've just made it a habit to press the NumLock button when I get to the lock screen before I get to enter the pin.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

If you do full time operations, learning PowerShell is a must. You can save yourself so much time and effort if you can effectively automate your tasks, from user provisioning/deprovisioning, maintenance, and other repetitive or otherwise time-consuming tasks. There are sometimes means of doing tasks like that with .cmd or .vbs, but on the whole, PS is a far more scalable approach.

A student I taught once told me PowerShell allows him to be a complete slacker at work, because he's scripted most of his daily tasks. Yet he gets credit for it.

I only manage an office of 10 people, so I'd probably spend more time building scripts and learning that I'd ever save. Though I do love scripting stuff to save time! Excel macros FTW. I've saved hundreds of man-hours at my office with a few days spent making these things. Co-workers are always in awe watching them churn through data. I'm in awe that my crappy hacked code actually works. Any programmer would probably have a conniption looking at it. But it gets the job done.

[TorqueDog]

Aegypticus, your NumLock On Boot must be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI. Give that a try. I have to go and configure my PC for it as well, now that I'm using PIN auth.

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I only manage an office of 10 people, so I'd probably spend more time building scripts and learning that I'd ever save. Though I do love scripting stuff to save time! Excel macros FTW. I've saved hundreds of man-hours at my office with a few days spent making these things. Co-workers are always in awe watching them churn through data. I'm in awe that my crappy hacked code actually works. Any programmer would probably have a conniption looking at it. But it gets the job done.

Excel macros are essentially Visual Basic code, which can be pretty damn powerful in its own right. I know what you mean though, I'm not exactly a model coder myself.

[Mike F]

I picked up a Surface Pro 4 today, after my Pro 3 literally crashed. It's my first chance to experience Windows Hello facial recognition, which is really impressive. Regardless of whether I'm wearing glasses or a hat, it barely skips a beat during start-up, recognizing my face and bypassing the usual log-in steps.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Mike F

I picked up a Surface Pro 4 today, after my Pro 3 literally crashed. It's my first chance to experience Windows Hello facial recognition, which is really impressive. Regardless of whether I'm wearing glasses or a hat, it barely skips a beat during start-up, recognizing my face and bypassing the usual log-in steps.

Which one did you buy? I'm seriously considering buying one of these as my old laptop is basically done and I don't want to replace it with another laptop. This seems like the perfect solution. Just that price tag though.....

[Mike F]

I bought the i5, 256GB harddrive, 8GB RAM.

The most intensive thing I do is run Photoshop CC, and it handles that (including projects with dozens of layers) without any difficulty. Word processing, Netflix and other video playback, Excel and the like, are all a breeze.

Don't get one if you want to do serious PC gaming, though, or any editing and exporting of large video files.

And if anyone does get one, immediately download Chrome (or maybe another browser) as Microsoft Edge does an unbelievably poor job of recognizing touch input. Trying to navigate Calgarypuck in Edge is maddening.