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[jaylach]

I never said otherwise; their windows10/11 gui fixes are generally recognize as being 'good' and that is how they make most of their money. Their game market i believe is a lot smaller - though in truth it has been a long time since i look at their financial. While a private company i believe that brad had released some break down of revenue if not recently then in the past.

I must have misunderstood one of your posts. When you said BS and yucked up I thought you meant it in relation to Stardock apps.

 

[anewbie]

I must have misunderstood one of your posts. When you said BS and yucked up I thought you meant it in relation to Stardock apps.

It was directed at MS for making bullshit changes for the sake of change. Hey Joe this is a new os so we need a new gui. Sure no problem what do you think will make it better. Doesn't matter much just change something so we can call it new and improved.

 

[jaylach]

It was directed at MS for making bullshit changes for the sake of change. Hey Joe this is a new os so we need a new gui. Sure no problem what do you think will make it better. Doesn't matter much just change something so we can call it new and improved.

Got it. I just misunderstood your post.

Just curious... What do you consider the 2 bes operating systems ever put out my MS? I say Win 2000 and 7.

 

[anewbie]

Got it. I just misunderstood your post.

Just curious... What do you consider the 2 bes operating systems ever put out my MS? I say Win 2000 and 7.

never used 2000; but by far for my usage windows 7 was the best. All down hill from there.

 

[jaylach]

never used 2000; but by far for my usage windows 7 was the best. All down hill from there.

Windows 2000 was the first NT OS put by MS and all Windows versions since have used the NT kernel.

I do and don't agree that things have gone downhill since Win 7. I think there have been advances made to Windows but I would totally agree that the GUI has gone bad which is a large reason why I use so many tweaks to bring the GUI back to what I want. MS wants to make a desktop system into a smart phone as to appearance. Can I blame them for that? No I can't as a smartphone, to many, is today's computer. That does not mean that I have to abide by what they want. Hence all my tweaks. LOL! You have seen images of my desktop and start menu in Win 11. It is +MY+ system and I will do what is needed to make how I want even if that requires third party software such as Start11. I'm 71 as of last Wednesday and stuck in my ways.

 

[MaloK]

Windows XP was the very best before 7, it's still running a lot of things today... 2k is the one I learned about active directory on, did the whole mcp, mcse and mcsa.. lolll...

And after 7 the improvements are not really toward practicality...

 

[MattW]

I grew up on Vista, and I can't remember much being about it. I do miss the old Dell tower with the dual core Pentium. We only got rid of that in 2017.

 

[jaylach]

Windows XP was the very best before 7, it's still running a lot of things today... 2k is the one I learned about active directory on, did the whole mcp, mcse and mcsa.. lolll...

And after 7 the improvements are not really toward practicality...

In my opinion XP was fine but not as good as 2000. I WILL admit that XP had a more user friendly GUI but that just means it was easier to use, not the better OS.

I grew up on Vista, and I can't remember much being about it. I do miss the old Dell tower with the dual core Pentium. We only got rid of that in 2017.

LOL! When I was going through old spin drives to find the ones I was going to clone my old Win 10 install I actually found a 40GB with Win 8.1 installed and it still boots fine.

I had no real issue with Vista except that it was overly resource hungry. At the time Vista insisted that you needed at least a 2 GHz. CPU and 2 GB RAM. Yet I ran it just fine on a 1GHz CPU and 1GB RAM after trimming things out that I didn't need.

Actually it is often the case that the video card is more important than the CPU especially when doing games and/or video processing. I remember when I ran Vista I had an ATI Rage Fury video card which, at the time, was considered top level. LOL! Who here is old enough to remember S-Video output? Anyway I came across a demo for a war type game that required a 2GHz. CPU to run. Decided to try it anyway even though my CPU was only 1 GHz.. I didn't care for the game but it ran just fine. The high level video was the real factor.

I have decided that for business stuff the CPU is probably a big influence as to performance but, if gaming or video editing, the GPU is much more important.

 

[MaloK]

I grew up on Vista, and I can't remember much being about it. I do miss the old Dell tower with the dual core Pentium. We only got rid of that in 2017.

Kids are buying these "Old" Dells today and turning them in Franken Clusterfuc*s able to use up to hundreds of cores to splice a job over 10GIG networks.

Others connects 16x 22Tb HDD's on a dead laptop with a M.2 Sata adapter.... A pile of disk with external power.

Many goes with cheap enterprise servers... And make Data centers.

Create Fully ZFS level compliant copy on replace... Able to sustain the worst power outage... Without needing to re silver anything... just a scrub once in a while...

And it's escalating... Some kidz are really blowing it... in esthetics and imagination.

From a 7 video card Accelerated Ai to HDD's holding in a Dish stand...

I'm following that crap !!! 1000%

 

[jaylach]

Since I've posted that I like my main system to be pretty here is a video of my current dual desktops at idle. Ya, I obviously also like accent lighting as seen by the bluish lighting on the wall. The video is in a ,mov format. I really need to dig through the camera settings to see if I can change the default format. Still, .mov, will work in most players if all video codex are installed. I also have MANY other videos that I can use for the wallpaper. Since it is the base for my entertainment center I just like pretty

https://jaylach.com/downloads/desktops.mov

 

[jaylach]

Question on a new build...

I have never done a R.A.I.D array but am considering doing so when I do the build with 2 1TB NVME M.2 drives striped. This would mean that I would need to add a 2TB NVME M.2 drive to do my clone backups.

I've already searched and found that, yes, you can clone a striped array to a single drive as long as the single drive is large enough to hold the array so no issue there.

My real question is how much performance increase would I see doing a striped array on my system drive? With the front runner as to the motherboard I'm probably going to use it would be a hardware array, not software. I'm sure that boot time would be better but I wonder if I would really see a performance increase once in Windows as to everyday usage.

 

[seangee]

For RAID 0 performance gains will be negligible. It may actually prove slower in the real world. With no fault tolerance or redundancy there is little point on a modern system unless you are still using slow mechanical drives. You won't notice any difference.
If you are determined to RAID with 2 disks RAID1 is probably the better option. You still won't notice any performance difference but will always have 2 usable disks - so at least you'll have redundancy

 

[jaylach]

For RAID 0 performance gains will be negligible. It may actually prove slower in the real world. With no fault tolerance or redundancy there is little point on a modern system unless you are still using slow mechanical drives. You won't notice any difference.
If you are determined to RAID with 2 disks RAID1 is probably the better option. You still won't notice any performance difference but will always have 2 usable disks - so at least you'll have redundancy

Thanks for the advice.

Mirrored RAID I won't do even though, in a way, I do so manually. I think of a Mirror as an automatic clone. What I have against it is that if an infection gets through it affects both drives leaving you without a working backup. Of course it is good in case of a drive failure but I get that anyway dining manual clones.

 

[anewbie]

If you use zfs you will have bit protection in case of bad blocks or whatever. Tid bit we wrote a software raid which would repair data as it sent it over the internet Kind of neat when we discover bit errors in the interface that was corrupting data.

 

[jaylach]

If you use zfs you will have bit protection in case of bad blocks or whatever. Tid bit we wrote a software raid which would repair data as it sent it over the internet Kind of neat when we discover bit errors in the interface that was corrupting data.

LOL! I have to admit that I have no idea as to what you just said but then I shut down my business in 2009 and have, since, not really kept up.

To add to my last post about not liking a Mirror array when I co a manual clone I then use Disk Management to take the clone drive off-line and put it back on-line when doing a new clone. Probably not total protection for the clone drive but another security layer.