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I hate computers to a certain degree.
It mostly comes from the planned obsolescence model of the operating systems and software.
What's wrong with the old machine?
Nothing, except it's been abandoned by the people writing the software.
This is especially important to me because the planned obsolescence people have also changed to a rental model for the software.
So, in addition to buying new hardware every couple years, you're expected to pay a monthly fee for the tools you need the machine for.
Of course, there's lots of free software out there that you don't have to rent.
Open Office replaced M$ Office here, for example.
I've even moved to a free OS with Ubuntu on the laptop...
But the desktop is Ye Olde Ancient Mac Pro. While it runs Win7, there's a lot of stuff on OSX that I still use regularly. Not online, of course, 10.6.8 is a "tad" vulnerable.
Today, JT generously donated his time to demonstrate his Qnap NAS and show that it could be used from the Mac. And the Ubuntu laptop, and the Win7 machines and the Win11 machine.
The Mac being the hardest and most frustrating part of the game and Apple's display of a Venture Brothers-Like "PROBLEM" just sets me off while JT is doing his level best to find the right combination of variables.
I'm not made at him. I'm angry at the planned obsolescence and changing things just to change them that software companies love.
Check out Cute PDF 4.0 Professional - bought it for 49 bucks outright an it is FAR better than Adobe Acrobat PDF of any kind. The bastards (Adobe) ceased supporting their product on Win 10 and the most recent owned by me software package would not run. Runs fine on all prior OS (7, XP and so on). That was the end of my 40 years of using Adobe products (and I used over half a dozen of their specialized products), screw them, not going to subscribe to any such program "services" or use cloud (not owned by me) storage. Also use GIMP and Libre Office - who needs MS beyond Win 10 OS (really preferred 7)? And when (not if) MS dumps support for 10, Ubuntu and other flavors of the penguin are getting better ever year.
ReplyDeleteThe one that really hurts will be giving up the paid for AutoCAD for Mac. Spent real money for that. The free solutions fall far short.
DeleteFoxit Pro is my pdf reader Windows. The default document viewer for Ubuntu has been doing the job there, as Preview did for Mac.
was a fan of foxit until they stopped making it portable...99% of the free software I use is the portable version... run it from a folder... only use ms office at work, been using libre forever...I use windows because I still enjoy gaming...I wish ms would just make windows and let those people that want it like a tablet or phone mod it that way...8 was a joke...7 and xp we're my favorite... every new version is harder and harder to use... they hide everything.... not sure how those with no computer savvy find anything after 8...panzer guy
DeleteYou will just have to keep your older OS and Apple alive as a standalone non internet connected CAD machine. I have Win 7 and XP machines for similar purpose.
DeletePanzer Guy, it's portable! I put it on my laptop and I can take it anywhere I want!
DeleteWait.
JT says that's not what you meant.
As someone who runs business networks for a living, my summation of Apple is "doesn't play well with others". Setting up a Microsoft Exchange email on an iPhone always took three tries to get the right secret handshake. Exchange on Mac wasn't much better. Plus our management tools keep losing access and Windows domain file shares SMH.
ReplyDeleteI'm mixed on obsolescence perhaps because I see the poorly implemented parts of the old stuff. Windows 7 can be a massive resource hog and Windows 10's UI is actually faster and cleaner unlike Windows 11 which is going to make me switch to Linux at home. It's the same with server OS, windows server 2016, 2019 and even 2022 improve on the past.
As for renting instead of buying, Adobe was the leader in activation and subscription because otherwise they would have gone broke. Every Adobe serial number was installed dozens of times so they had to do something to stay profitable. Heck my company only survived the Covid lockdowns because 90% of our business is monthly contracts and not T&M. Also from an administrative standpoint subscriptions are easier to manage, no scrabbling for license keys and no tracking usage in case we get audited. An added bonus is no more babysitting FlexLM for,AutoCAD
lol...a lot of the freeware i use is just an executable...at one time foxit had a portable version...been a few years now since they stopped it...now i use sumatra pdf...does what i need it to do...open pdf files...lots of good freeware out there...panzer guy...
ReplyDeleteI don't do Windows if I can at all avoid it. I've never used it at home, I've used Linux as my primary platform since 1993 when I switched from Mac. Prior to 1993 a lot of my work was on commercial UNIXes like Solaris or AIX. I've only begrudgingly dealt with Windows at work and then as little as possible. I've either brought in my own laptop running Linux, run Linux on the company's hardware or done most of my work on Linux under a VM or something like that. My current employer and two of my last 3 employers have provided Macs. I prefer Linux, but I can deal with MacOS.
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