Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

[Jon Davies]

I'm getting very off topic here.

On 18 November 2015 at 10:48, CJB <chrisjbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK - that's all good to know. But ... do I really need to upgrade to
> Win 10 anyway?
I guess that depends on whether you'd like Microsoft to continue to
support your operating system.

> Its the aggressive forcing of the issue that riles me.
> My little Acer notebook hasn't the capacity for a full blown Windows.
> I only have Win 7 Starter anyway. And my 250GB hard drive is full of
> video and audio files. There's no room for more bloat from MS.
Win 10 is actually smaller than Win 7!  Though temporarily you will
need enough space to install it.

> But the killer is the enforced updates. How dare MS dictate my
> lifestyle. Life is too  short
for me, life is too short to keep needing to worry about massaging
windows systems so that they continue to work securely.  For me,
Microsoft have actually managed to take away some of the pain so I can
get on with a real life. (what am I doing writing emails anyway?)

> I only have a Three mobile dongle with
> a contract for 5GB a month. So updates I do at MacD's on free wifi and
> in my own time. I don't need MS stealing my small allowance. I have
> also removed all attempts to download Win 10.
which is why Win 10 understands the concept of metered internet
connections, and does NOT use these by default for downloading
updates.  So you get what you want without even having to try.

There's a lot of FUD going around about windows 10.

(For the record, I have Windows 10 on one of the desktop I use most at
home - it's a five year old machine and runs better since I upgraded
it.  We also have a six year old laptop with limited disk and ram also
running Win 10 very nicely - and better than it ran Win 7; and another
relatively new laptop currently running Win 7.  And the laptop I use
at work all the time runs Win 7.  So I get plenty of chance to compare
windows 7 and 10 - and I have to say that I *like* the simplicity in
Windows 10.  And on the odd occasion I want to poke around under the
bonnet, windows will let me.  Oh, and I run Ubuntu on my server at
home, and Ubuntu on another six year old laptop. And don't have any
need to run gip on windows.)

Jon