No, probably Linux of some sort, which I have run numerous times including on my old dual-boot laptop. I've always been partial to setting up my own computers, from motherboard on up. Can't do with the Macs.
And if I am going to run Win10 in a virtual box, I am already using an interface I am familiar with. I suppose if I got more into video editing, I might consider a MacOS virtual client, although Windows isn't that far behind.
There ARE certainly many aspects to Win10 which are highly annoying... they hid all sorts of apps from the users, so e.g. if you want to run wordpad, you have to search for it -- it wasn't in my default start hierarchy. Other applications I've installed myself don't show up, either, so I have to search for them using 'dorkus' or 'cortana' or whatever it is and then "pin to start" (after I removed every single thing Microsoft crammed in there).
I think you are right about the infected PCs, e.g. many WinXP but also Win7, which allowed users to postpone updates. Win10 just reboots when you blink, which is really annoying at times but this really illustrates how important it is not to let users prevent an update and reboot to install/finalize.
Also... I read that Microsoft actually put out an update for XP for this, but you could ignore them with that OS as well.
Two or so years ago, I let my daughter use my old XP laptop over Christmas break, and I could not believe how much crap that picked up. She hardly ever surfs anywhere, which proved how bad it had gotten. And of course, a patch for Win7 et. al. is a blueprint for hacking older machines once support ends.
Oh... latest thing I read is that there may have been a 'worm' component to this attack, which of course means your computer can be infected even when nobody is logged in doing anything stupid at all!
I still remember when the Robert Morris worm took down most of my office computers. Somehow my SunOS box escaped, I don't recall why. That was child's play compared to what is being unleashed by the new mafia now. Bitcoin really is elevating crime to a new level, which always happens. Roads did that when they became common (e.g. bank robbery getaways); computers did it (hacking) and now bitcoin (utter anonymity).
But not quite as anonymous as people think, thanks to a new way of spying emerging that I just read about yesterday. I'll leave that to another post one day -g- |
