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Originally Posted by headhawg
@DeltaLover
As most of the programs I use require Windows I don't really have much of a choice. Win10 is a complete disaster. And I am not moving to an Apple box. Linux is tempting, but I am not going to use some emulator like WINE to run my apps.
@forced89
I do the same as you re: Windows updates. I always refer to AskWoody. I think you may have been the poster who let me know about it. Thanks. The problem is that this is a newly discovered flaw, so when AW went to Defcon 3 I installed the Feb rollup after already installing January's. The Meltdown patch was in both so, too late (although I supposed that I could uninstall them).
The point is that companies like M$, Comcast, and other oligopolies continue to produce crap and the public (mostly) has to put up with it.
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I understand your pain but you have to also realize that it is a consequence of the decision to use an OS that is not developer friendly. Linux / mac are without a doubt the way to go for a developer / devop while as you correctly say Wine is there only as a band-aid and does not indent to serve as a fully fledged environment. Maybe you should consider replacing your existing dependencies to windows specific software with open source and start a gradual migration to linux or mac.
