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Install Linux? 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Install Linux?
I still need full .NET support. Core is getting close, and looking good. But then again, there's the whole UI thing too. 
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My old Win7 installation has been crying for years now. I never activated it. As far as I can tell, I'm being punished by being denied access to updates, not allowing a desktop background image and shaming me (yawn) by writing 'unregistered' into the corners of the desktop.
This way I was spared from Win8, Win10 or any other junk. When Win7 finally outlives its usefulness one day, I will kiss Mickeysoft goodbye.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Run Linux? 
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Yes, faced the same problem. I think it was update 1803 that required 5 more GB of space on the C: drive which was on 28 GB. How can Microsoft Windows require so much space????? Of course they have crap on their like Mail, which takes a lot of space, that you cannot delete. The Microsoft Windows and Office teams are really bad.
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and Cortana which can not be terminated or uninstalled.
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Yes that is definitely a pretty bad bug. It really irritates me also.
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Thought they would have learned with Widget so many years ago. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. 
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Actually, if you just wash (and thoroughly rinse) you PC it will be fine about avoiding updates.
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It certainly won't keep it from trying however.
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If the purpose is to avoid installing updates all the time, those who recommend Linux have clearly not spent a lot of time with it.
If I was to compare the total bandwidth used for updates in a month by a single Linux system with a single Windows system - Linux is the biggest hog, by far.
This is one of my VM hosts I have here at home. This one has nothing but Linux guests:
Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
PS C:\Users\administrator> (get-vm).count
77
I like to tinker with Linux. I have a number of versions of CentOS, Debian, Elementary, Fedora, Korora, Linux Lite, Mageia, Manjaro, Mint, OpenSUSE, Oracle Linux, RHEL, SLES, SolydXK, Ubuntu, ZorinOS and a few lesser-known distributions.
I can say with confidence they're all bandwidth hogs when it comes to updates.
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I needed an algorithm for generating the combinations of a list, in 2, 3, and 4 element quantities, so I google - and it throws up a question on SlackExchange which points to an article here: Permutations, Combinations, and Variations using C# Generics[^]
Which may have been written in 2008, but slotted right in (as a C# DLL project) and worked right out of the box. Nice one!
That's a half day to a day saved in three lines of code ... bonus! 
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+5ed. 
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What a gem!
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's a half day to a day saved
You mean half a day of fun you're missing out of!? 
Darn you CodeProject... 
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The sad conclusion is that Google's index of CP is so much poorer than StackExchange's.
Would you have found it, had it not been for the detour through SE?
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We'll never know - but that was my first search, if I hadn't found it with that I'd have tweaked the search term and that may have ended up here.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Definitely a sign of CodeProject's community mental health !
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Just seems to be bigger and better rather than anything new. Some health features in the watch.
Kevin
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I told them not to click on those links... maybe I was wrong all along?
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Hey, they invented Dual Sim phones!
On a related news: Apple invents a mouse with a scroll wheel and a keyboard with more than 102 keys.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The only Apple I would ever have bought was the then less than a year old Apple ][. I was the nemesis of all the owners of the first computer stores at all and had a very limited choice of what store and brands to raid: Trinity of 1977[^]
Given the choice between a Commodore PET, a TRS-80 and the Apple ][, which store would be your first choice to pay a visit? To make it easier: The stores nearby only had Apple and TRS-80s.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Commodore PET...
As long as 'nearby' means under 10000 Km...
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At that age I was limited to places I could reach on foot. Under the mild climate of west Texas.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I think the name is spot on - "Excess".
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