To be fair, it's less work for everyone involved to format and re-install, even if you can manually fix something major. And with a Windows box you'll probably have to re-install sometime in the next 5 years anyways.
Reinstall? I think it would probably take me months to re-install all my programs, fight with the companies that have "activation" while attempting to explain why I need to re-active the old program, maybe $100's or $1000's to re-purchase the software where I was unsuccessful at fighting with the companies that have the "activation" nonsense, re-install stuff, and just generally get my computer back to the way it was. I have LOTS of stuff on my computer - my backup file is around 800 Gb, and it doesn't
This Winlink [winlink.org]? It looks like there are plenty of options. Even so, slapping it in a vm that you can snapshot and maintain would be way less work then maintaining your behemoth pc.
The client software absolutely has to do Winmore and Ardop, and you can see that the only one that does is the Windows software.
Then of course there is the other Windows-only stuff like my Nikon camera utilities, Photoshop Elements, Office 365 (did they make it Linux yet? Maybe... don't want to lose VBA), and so forth.
Since I have a mortally wounded computer from the last Windows update, it's tempting to build a new one an make Linux the base OS and attempt to make everything work through VMs for Windows, (see if I can get Call of Duty and Quake III (yeah, its ancient, but have been playing it about 20 years and have over 200,000 dead bots behind me), and so forth. I just really don't want to end up scripting a shell and wondering why the m-fing regular expression isn't doing what I want it to. Damn, I hated that when I had to do it for work, and it made me appreciate Windows so much more...
When you decide to throw away your $4,000 computer to solve your Windows glitch, can I have it? I'll actually come to your house and pick it up, if you live in North America.
I'll have both the crippled computer & the new linux computer simultaneously. If I can get the new linux computer to do what I want, I'll likely convert the old one to linux too, except it'd likely be several years of learning and experimentation to get the windows software to cooperate so the old computer might really be obsolete by then anyway. Anyway, I'd find a way to sell it as parts... 850 watt PS, 32Gb ram, core i7, blue ray burner, etc.
Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword.
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How about you *don't* go to their forum and instead format everything and start again.
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To be fair, it's less work for everyone involved to format and re-install, even if you can manually fix something major. And with a Windows box you'll probably have to re-install sometime in the next 5 years anyways.
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Reinstall? I think it would probably take me months to re-install all my programs, fight with the companies that have "activation" while attempting to explain why I need to re-active the old program, maybe $100's or $1000's to re-purchase the software where I was unsuccessful at fighting with the companies that have the "activation" nonsense, re-install stuff, and just generally get my computer back to the way it was. I have LOTS of stuff on my computer - my backup file is around 800 Gb, and it doesn't
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No, not that one, that's gateway software. I need client software. These are the available clients:
https://www.winlink.org/Client... [winlink.org]
The client software absolutely has to do Winmore and Ardop, and you can see that the only one that does is the Windows software.
Then of course there is the other Windows-only stuff like my Nikon camera utilities, Photoshop Elements, Office 365 (did they make it Linux yet? Maybe... don't want to lose VBA), and so forth.
Since I have a mortally wounded computer from the last Windows update, it's tempting to build a new one an make Linux the base OS and attempt to make everything work through VMs for Windows, (see if I can get Call of Duty and Quake III (yeah, its ancient, but have been playing it about 20 years and have over 200,000 dead bots behind me), and so forth. I just really don't want to end up scripting a shell and wondering why the m-fing regular expression isn't doing what I want it to. Damn, I hated that when I had to do it for work, and it made me appreciate Windows so much more...
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I'll have both the crippled computer & the new linux computer simultaneously. If I can get the new linux computer to do what I want, I'll likely convert the old one to linux too, except it'd likely be several years of learning and experimentation to get the windows software to cooperate so the old computer might really be obsolete by then anyway. Anyway, I'd find a way to sell it as parts... 850 watt PS, 32Gb ram, core i7, blue ray burner, etc.