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From: | Chris Yate |
Subject: | Re: Photoscore |
Date: | Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:33:17 +0000 |
On 28 Nov 2016 09:11, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > You mean, if it doesn't already own you. My father is a retired
> professor of theoretical physics who is still publishing. He received a
> final draft of such a paper back from a physics journal along with
> instructions to put any corrections into PDF annotations. So I
> installed Okular for him.
>
> Since the instructions were very detailed but only fit Acrobat Reader,
> he decided to use that after all and started up Windows. Which decided
> to do a few updates.
>
> The only partition on his computer that is now still a Linux partition
> is the swap partition.
>
> Windows decided to update itself to Windows 10 (without asking back, of
> course) and decided to move all of Windows 8 into recovery partitions.
> Instead of partitioning off space from the existing Windows partition,
> it decided to rather junk all the Linux partitions and repurpose them.
>
> This is why this is called the "Windows 10 anniversary edition": it's
> like your wife celebrating your wedding anniversary by murdering your
> mistress and draping her on your bed.
>
> It is quite unclear how much, if anything, will be salvageable from his
> actual work environment.
>
> All of the Linux partitions are now "Windows recovery environment" or
> "Microsoft basic data" partitions and it is not clear how much of the
> original data will still be in there.
>
> Really, if you still have some dual boot environment, remove the Windows
> partition as fast as you can before it destroys your system.
>
> Microsoft is taking the last stand on the desktop and will go down with
> it. Don't let it take out its despair on your property.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
Hi David,
It's terrible that you've had that experience, I've not heard of that happening - although I dual boot at home
it hasn't happened to me... I've already got the "anniversary" update so may have dodged a bullet.
However, the issue here isn't how bad Windows is ;-)
It's worth pointing out, OS X is another option for running Sib.
I had quite good success with Sibelius under WINE. Years ago though and I have no idea whether that would still work.
Cheers
Chris
P.S.
"it's like your wife celebrating your wedding anniversary by murdering your
mistress and draping her on your bed"
I laughed out loud :)
Cheers,
Chris
P.S.
"it's like your wife celebrating your wedding anniversary by murdering your
mistress and draping her on your bed"
I laughed out loud :)
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