Just stop using windows.
I'm sorry but 2 out of the 3 graphics/pictures in this article do not display at all. (making their space and whatever information they contain, useless)
Im not switching from win 10 1909
Quote from: GeorgeS on October 08, 2025, 22:38:47I'm sorry but 2 out of the 3 graphics/pictures in this article do not display at all. (making their space and whatever information they contain, useless)
looks like a you problem. all displayed fine for me.
Not everyone can stop using Windows. At work we have an old camera that requires IE mode in Edge (or a really old version of windows with IE) to hear the audio. It requires Activex. You might say that the camera manufacturer should update the firmware but then that has to do with them wanting you to buy a new camera which means there is no such firmware. Then also at work we still have lots of old .NET Framework code (not .NET Core) that really is very difficult to use vscode with it. We have a local access db and I think that the bosses are using advanced Access features that are only available in Microsoft Office. I mean there is actual code embedded into the db that only shows up when you open it in Microsoft Access. On that one I am not sure but I do know that I can edit it with generic not Microsoft software and make edits to the tables. So this last one is not 100% a problem. Those are the examples that I think of off hand. I am sure there are many more. For the record we have 6 Windows Server vms and 7 Ubuntu Server (no gui) vms. If you started a new entity today like ours with new cameras and new code then you would not need Windows but it's the legacy stuff that is making life for us very difficult. We have one old laptop that must use Activex and we installed Mint Linux but we were not able to use Activex at all. Our workaround was to setup a Windows vm for this purpose on the network and they connect using rdp. This is an acceptable solution for a business where they have servers and tons of resources but for a single user with a single computer (or a laptop that isn't always connected to the internet) it is not an option. In the end they will always need a solution not based on another vm. If you have enough RAM then a local vm is legitimate but then if you have enough RAM you are probably on a newer computer that can install Win11 without any hacks. In any case moving away from Windows is not always practical or ever possible.