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New computer. Doing new computer things, like decrapifying it.
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February 25th, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure. 😀
February 25th, 2015 at 11:40 pm
I’ll second Ratus. Always wipe whatever the default OEM junk is with a fresh install of straight up, 100% Windows.
Of course, if you used Mac OS or Linux, this would not be necessary 🙂
February 26th, 2015 at 9:03 am
PC decrapifier. Nifty little too to automate all that, and if it misses anything, well, it asks you to review it’s work and check the bix next to anything it should remove, near the end of its process.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:51 am
I agree with Ratus and Sebastian. Nuke from orbit. Mac is a good consumer option, but Linux offerings are pretty good. You can always run a VM for Windows.
I delay buying computers just because I hate the process of reforming them new out of the box. I’m like a plumber with broken toilets – I hate doing it unless someone pays me. It’s gotten that bad.
February 26th, 2015 at 11:04 am
I wiped it. Mac and linux are cool and all except that my computer needs to actually be compatible with other systems and, you know, productive.
February 26th, 2015 at 12:56 pm
Ouch.
Office runs on OXS, but we have requirements to use Windows-only apps for some of our clients. In those cases we run a Windows VM in VMWare Fusion. I actually prefer it over a Windows machine.
Through no direction from above, all of our company machines have migrated to OSX and Linux, and everyone runs Windows in a VM. The apps show up ike regular Linux/OSX apps, but we can kill Windows when they are done.
Everyone has preferences. Glad to see yours worked out for you. Never be shy posting issues online – a lot of we gunnies are geek material and happy to help out with the little details people outside the trade might miss.
February 26th, 2015 at 7:28 pm
I haven’t challenged it in the finest detail, but Open Office under Linux should be externally indistinguishable from MS Office, and it’s free. Then there are plenty of CAD, graphics, whatever programs that can read and write files in every format.
Unless you’re playing games, you don’t really need windoze, and even then a lot can be made to work. People using Linux want to do the same things everyone else does, but in many cases are equipped to make it happen.
Some teenager in Norway, I think it was, broke the protection on DVDs a few minutes after it had been released, so you can even watch those if you can find your way to the hack. Or so I’ve heard. I, um, have no idea how to do that.
February 26th, 2015 at 7:30 pm
It’s the shortcut keys. I’m a keyboard commando, after all.