ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2023
Entry 1st July 2023: Post 1: The end of windows.
The end of windows.
I was sitting today reflecting on whether to launch into July with
the blog given the impending fire storm from the death star that has
become the English summer, and found myself again pondering whether
to go full on and embrace Windows 10. During last month I got myself
a longer HDMI cable and plugged the DeLL Win10 into this monitor
giving me all the benefits of super smooth very high definition
video and seamless gaming with high frame rates. Amazingly all I seem
to watch on YouTube are restoration projects of old electronic kit
and vintage car racing. Anyway I decided I'm not quite ready for all
that Windows 10 has to offer.
I guess I live a rather sheltered existence here, not dissimilar to
a high tech hermit. Unlike a hermit I am privy to the goings on in
the world, and although minded to ignore most of it I am conscious
of the ever changing technological landscape.
Reflecting on the plight of my Win7 computer I trouble myself with
the nett gains of moving to a newer OS over the losses from what I
currently enjoy. It was at this point that the penny dropped. Sadly
my era is done. I hadn't seen the curtain even come down, but down
it has certainly fallen. The truth is that all that I have grown to
love and enjoy about my computing is all but vanished from view.
Windows are dead. Well that crept up on me without me even noticing.
The world of computers has been absorbed into the iPhone tablet
style glass table interface littered with Apps. No more the window,
just the multicoloured square app icons and instant access to those
fancy interfaces that try to sell you stuff even if you don't want
it. The touch screen, mobile phone interface doesn't really lend
itself to complex windows that need you to actually read. I just
hadn't realised why I get so much heat from suppliers about downloading
their app.
My world of point and click windows which started with GEOS and which
developed through GEM and Workbench became my only way to fly, what
with Windows dominating for so long. I have been using Win7 now for
12 years and really have no desire to move from it. I guess I have
become too long in the tooth, an old timer by default. I really
cannot see me moving over to a shiny glass touch screen devoid of
windows. I live in windows. My game is in one, YouTube is in another,
Ebay lurking in the back and no end of folders with files sprinkled
here and there. For me there will always be only icons, and for me
the interface is a menu, a task bar, programs and windows.
The thing I fear is that so much time has gone by since Windows 7
was junked that it may be too late for me ever to grapple with the
ways of modern browsing.
I really don't mind watching 4K HD vintage motor racing, but as
to whether a tablet style TV interface driven by apps is going to
ever make a fit, I doubt it. I am doomed, and what is worse I do
think it is 'Coopers Ducks' for windows.
By the way I show the Austin A35 as the last image cus that was my
very first car. Mine was a four door saloon so a bit more up market.
Cost my twenty five quid all those years ago. I have no plans to
get a replacement after all these years... although !!!
Anyhoo I'll struggle with the death star for a week or so and see
how it goes. But if it gets too hot I'm out of here.
I've been printing today. Seriously ! The first time for twenty odd
years. Man was that strange. More on that later.
Sorry for the crap images. You just can't get HD out of old
computer monitors.
The end of windows.
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Last updated 1st July 2023
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