Recommended specs for Windows Development computer.

[Ralph DiMola]

Bob,
Agreed... I held out to the bitter end with XP(security) then Win 7(EOL
1/2020) So I went to 10.
Whilst Win 10 does have its annoying issues(forced updates) I generally like
it. I set updates to ask me before updating so I/ME/Mine can decide when to
install. I now run Win 10 Hyper-V with a few VMs with no problems since
2016. 10 is my new XP/7. I would like to have XP and also not get striped
searched at the airport but 10s security and features outweigh my love for
XP and not getting high-jacked outweighs my nostalgia of breezing through
the airport. Change is both good and bad but I flow in the direction of the
least safe resistance.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2019 11:09 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Bob Sneidar
Subject: Re: Recommended specs for Windows Development computer. 

If Windows were girlfriends...

I used to hate Windows, back before 1995. I swore I'd never have anything to
do with her, always pretending to be pretty, but it was just a mask over top
of that ugly DOS. Windows 2000... nuther MEH! BORING! 

XP! Now there was an improvement! I actually LIKED XP for a lot of reasons.
Until the "compromising" of MD5 encryption. I could never share anything
intimate with her again. Never mention ME in my presence. EVER! I swear I
never touched her! 

Then there was Windows 7. Ahhhh, seven. The Hebrew number for Completeness!
How good and sweet that relationship was! I thought it would never end. I
was a changed man. I could love again! 

Then one day Daddy Microsoft busted the door down, took her by the hand,
hauled her out the door and told me I would never see her again. Her ugly
younger sister, Vista stayed behind to comfort me. That turned out badly. I
stopped answering her text messages. She changed her name to Windows 8
thinking I wouldn't notice. Yeah... no. 

Now I'm with Windows 10. Not what I would have asked for, but it's all
that's left to me now. Weighs too much, moves too slow, looks bland, Very
few curves, and is always making me work harder to get what I want from her.
Keeps second guessing me, asking me if I really want to do what I just told
her I wanted to do. Then asks again just to be sure. Sometimes doesn't do it
anyway. Claims it would be "dangerous" and "damaging". <sigh> 

I will always pine for my Windows 7. I could click her start button and get
her going right away! And I would get exactly what I expected to get. Now, I
have to search for what I want, and most of the time it's suggested I go
elsewhere, like the internet to get it. 

:-)
Bob S


> On Oct 4, 2019, at 01:34 , Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I like having and using both almost daily, as long as I'm developing for
both. And developing for both is specifically how I ended up right here! :)
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Curry Kenworthy
> 
> Custom Software Development
> "Better Methods, Better Results"
> LiveCode Training and Consulting


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