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Re: [LUG] Is it just me or is Firefox starting to fall apart?

 

Just wondered which library you were doing this at.  ?

Paul
On 28/11/2018 19:57, Eion MacDonald wrote:
> On 28/11/2018 18:40, mr meowski wrote:
>> I know most of you don't have to deal with this stuff but 
>> from a sysadmin perspective Windows has been absolute murder this year - 
>> constant failures and critical bugs, outages, pulled updates... They're 
>> not even trying with QA any more.
> 
>> But it's not like I've got actual metrics or anything and subjective 
>> grumbling isn't really a lot to go on so perhaps I am just being grumpy. 
> 
> Stats from my tutor group at U3A and Library.
> 1) 12 or so Windows 10 users.
> 2) About 7 'fed up' with unable to complete updates.
> Of which I have had to do a clean install of windows 10 on two machines
> to resolve errors etc.  These are 'normal users' (nothing fancy like
> video editing or such)
> 3) Neighbour, who used Linux Ubuntu for two years on old machine when
> Windows played up - dual booting. So casual Linux user.
> Bought new Windows 10 Home machine, took a Knoppic DVD with him to the
> shop and said if it does not boot Knoppix no sale. Now using Windows 10
> Home , but after three months has changed to Linux. (Dual Boot)
> 
> 4) Summary of 13 people, 8 'no find Windows acceptable' full time.
> Interesting statistic.
> 
> 5) Local U3A, put out a warning about Windows 10 latest updates on its
> monthly email, [Do not ask for download- just wait] as many of the 1,200
> members had 'moaned' about update problems when they clicked update.
> 

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