I've often wondered how good the Windows 10 is.
Dictated from Voice Dream Mail. On Apr 8, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Well, to be fair, many work environments are quite different to home ones—much stuffier and less fun, with more corporate-administered crap striving hard to make the experience as unpleasant as possible. So, don’t judge Windows entirely on that theory. Indeed, judge it from BootCamp or inside a VM; Windows positively shines in those spaces. I have for a while now been wondering what to do about OS X (or “macOS”, as it will soon be known). I wondered if perhaps I should go the “Hackintosh” route, or bring the Mac VM to Windows; then, the hardware could at least be as mediocre as the software, but at least I’d be getting what I paid for and I could seriously up the specs for less money. Naturally, this would deprive Apple of the money they need to do further development, but let’s be honest here, that’s already the case. I do love the Mac hardware though, at the moment at least, and do think the experience would suck quite a bit compared to using that; whether improving on Windows by using macOS is something I could do with cheaper hardware isn’t something I’ll really know until I try it, but I have had these terrible thoughts quite regularly now, particularly now that I have a Windows VM on near-permanent standby. In that light, I sent a feedback to Apple, asking them very nicely if they wouldn’t mindcharging a premium for a version of their OS that wouldn’t need Mac hardware and was optimised for a VM environment, such as one might find on a developer’s workstation or on a fully virtualised service cluster in a datacentre. I expect they’ll reply about the same time as Satan drives to work in a snowplough. :) The Windows screen readers are really the only reason to have Windows. Stable or not, they are under active development, and that does make a difference. You just don’t get issues like not being able to edit in certain text fields, at least not for very long after release. This is the downside of internalising screen reader development, even though the technology itself is clearly superior. Even Windows now uses the same technology; Microsoft’s own APIs are relied upon by Microsoft’s own screen reader, and non-exclusively by other screen readers. It’s becoming easier and easier to skip upgrades to your favourite commercial screen reader and get away with it. If you have virtualisation, anything is possible in Windows, and you get to keep the screen readers. I will wait to see what macOS looks like, and then, finally, I will act positively and decisively in my self-interest. I hate the Win10 privacy situation, but Win8.1 is still supported until 2023, and all my Mac hardware isHaswell or less. Because it’s all Mac, I can run OS X (or macOS) legally on the hardware or in a VM in Windows. I’ll do the setup once, image the drive, and try very hard not to notice that I’m running Windows. :) A “Fusion Drive” is nought but a hard disk and an SSD glued together in software using CoreStorage. OS X will then migrate data as necessary. If you want to manipulate those separately, or erase them / TRIM them, you’ll have to use Terminal from a separate environment. If you want my advice: split the Fusion drive back up, and use them as separate disks, and micromanage what’s on each disk yourself. It’s harder work, but it’s generally more reliable. Use “diskutil cs delete ‘Macintosh HD’” and mind that you’ll lose everything! -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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