So, I bought Windows 7 back in the day

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I have enjoyed my time with Windows 10 and would recommend it to anyone looking for a quality operating system.

Well, Flack pointed me to some privacy tools. I think it's telling that Windows 10 has no advocates. It exists, it's good enough... you can get it.

It didn't cost me any money, so I consider Microsoft and myself even for them deleting my Windows 7 access.

But at my job, I work on a Macbook, and no computer/OS in history has ever been as bad or as frustrating or stupid to work with than that, so everything else is a breath of fresh goddamn air.

Well, at a person's work all of us in computer tech really want Unix combined with a decent GUI. The MacBook is the closest anyone has come. Any of us could start making and selling a true Unix laptop with a gorgeous UI that we didn't fuck with. There are billions to be made there. But, welp. Jordan Peele is hosting the Twilight Zone and I'd rather get behind that.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

But at my job, I work on a Macbook, and no computer/OS in history has ever been as bad or as frustrating or stupid to work with than that, so everything else is a breath of fresh goddamn air.

This is what I think is hilarious about Apple fans. At work we can choose our device and about half the team has Macs. I love watching them deal with shit like a lost adapter dongle or trouble with the stupid multi Trac pad or the stupid operating system is making it hard to do something. I've always hated the way Apple tells you what to do with the expensive device you have. Of course the Apple mindset has been infiltrating into Google and Microsoft, possibly because the shithead engineers migrate between these big three, and apparently Tesla too. I want to go back to when we could control our own devices completely.

We had the new MacBooks come in and the things look hideous with that giant tumor coming out of them so they have the ports everyone needs to get any work done. I used to think the influence Jobs had was over rated, but the MacBooks look terrible! Tim Cook has a quote out there where he says he's never had a bad year running Apple, meanwhile his computers look like something you'd carve off the ribs of your 11 year old Golden Retriever.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I grew up using DOS and Windows (well shit, I guess we all did, right?). I've been supporting Windows clients and servers professionally for almost 25 years now. I don't love Windows and I don't hate it. After working with it for so long, I've just figured out ways to to work around its quirks and make it function (better).

Yeah. I mean, Windows 7 was legitimately good. Hell, so was 98 and XP at the time. Oh well.

Part of me wants to learn PowerShell for this new computer - and I give MS some more credit. This thing hasn't bluescreened on me once, hasn't done anything remotely indicative that it's not going to work just fine. Now.

[pinback]

Well, at a person's work all of us in computer tech really want Unix combined with a decent GUI. The MacBook is the closest anyone has come.

Windows 10 + Cygwin is way, way better than that. So I take umbrage, good sir.

Umbrage.

[RealNC]

Windows 10 + Cygwin is way, way better than that. So I take umbrage, good sir.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux that is now part of Windows 10 is pretty good. Cygwin kind of lost its purpose now.

[Casual Observer]

Windows doesn't blue screen anymore but sometimes you notice it reset where all the program icons at the bottom disappear then come back one by one. This is better. I agree.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Hey, moving systems and I somehow still have my Wasteland 2 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided saves! WTF! This is amazing! I ... I didn't realize we had that capability, all of us.

I may be feeling something other than rage?

[pinback]

Windows 10 + Cygwin is way, way better than that. So I take umbrage, good sir.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux that is now part of Windows 10 is pretty good. Cygwin kind of lost its purpose now.

I didn't know that was a thing. Okay, then yes, this. This is also better than a Macbook.

[Flack]

Yup here: https://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to ... indows-10/

[pinback]

Yeah, I just got it set up. I will miss Cygwin's transparent windows, but yeah, this is just fine.

[Flack]

Not sure about the bash environment, but if you right-click a command prompt window in Windows 10 and select properties, go to the colors tab and there's a slider for opacity.

[pinback]

Oh yeah, look at that. Well, this is wonderful! MACS SUCK

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Hey man. Everything I thought I knew about Macs and Unix is flying crazy. I ... I don't know what to do now.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Ack! Pinback turned me onto a replacement Windows cmd skin and I don't remember the name of it. Do you guys use a replacement shell? Can you tell me what you use to see if I can remember it?

[pinback]

This is what I used: https://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

I don't use it anymore, though, since cygwin (and now the linux thing we learned about here) have transparency built in, which was my main use for it. But it's good!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

There are a lot of Tdarcoses now.

Flack. Flack!! What would be the best program to do something like the following?

I have an SSD (drive V:). I want to have my copy of Cyberganked there as a develop it. However, I'd like to mirror the directory on another hard drive for my system.

Should I do this in Powershell? And use Windows Scheduler to mirror the directory each night? I think there used to be xcopy in the DOS days but I don't know if xcopy deletes things as well, which it would need to do for mirroring.

[pinback]

I'm no Flack, but one fun thing you could do is install Linux using the above discussion as a guide, and then just set up a cron job to rsync from wherever to wherever every so often.

The only catch is that you have to have a Linux window open for cron to operate the way you expect. If you're like me that's not an issue since you always have at least one Linux window open, but -- and I'm just throwing this out there, no judgments -- you may not be like me.

[Flack]

Robocopy comes with Windows now, and has a /mir switch.

Set up a scheduled task in Windows with the following command:

robocopy.exe source destination /mir

ex: robocopy v:\Cyberganked c:\CybergankedBackup /mir

[RealNC]

Put in on a private GitHub repo, I say. Free backup!

[The Happiness Engine]

Powershell SHOULD be as good as bash nowadays for scripting and scheduling. rather than worry about "copy with delete" just place the new copy in something like 'folder-temp', verify the copy worked, then remove last night copy and move the folder-temp to folder-yesterday or what-have-you.