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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 13:33:15 +0200
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On 31/05/2024 12:45, Michael S wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2024 09:55:49 +0200
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>
>> Imagine turning off (or never enabling) the services that you don't
>> find useful and can be a significant drain.  I always disable Windows
>> updates, indexing services, and would never have a "voice AI" on a
>> computer.  Linux does not have anything like as much of this kind of
>> nonsense on normal desktops (though I believe Ubuntu had some nasty
>> automatic search systems for a while).  The only one I can think of
>> is "updatedb" for the "locate" command.  While "locate" can sometimes
>> be useful, trawling the filesystem can be very time-consuming if it
>> is large.  But it's easy to tune updatedb to cover only the bits you
>> need.
>>
> 
> Most of the things that you mentioned above are not easy to achieve on
> Home Editions of Windows beyond 7.

I've never used any home edition of Windows, so I will take your word 
for it.

> Some of them are not easy to achieve even on Pro edition.
> That's a major reason for me to remain on 7 for as long as I can.
> 

I have many reasons for staying with Windows 7, but I'll add that one to 
the list.  (There are some things in Windows 11 that I would like to 
have, but not enough to change over.)