Re: Photoscore

[David Kastrup]

Chris Yate <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Andrew
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> Apologies in advance, I'm going to be *that guy*... ;-)
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> For what it’s worth, I’m a huge fan of Linux, Lilypond and Muse and all the
> other wonderful **free** tools that we have available.... BUT if I was in
> any sense interested in working with a commercial publisher – especially
> for paid work, I wouldn’t mess about. I’d buy a copy of Windows, if I
> didn’t already own one,

You mean, if it doesn't already own you.  My father is a retired
professor of theoretical physics who is still publishing.  He received a
final draft of such a paper back from a physics journal along with
instructions to put any corrections into PDF annotations.  So I
installed Okular for him.

Since the instructions were very detailed but only fit Acrobat Reader,
he decided to use that after all and started up Windows.  Which decided
to do a few updates.

The only partition on his computer that is now still a Linux partition
is the swap partition.

Windows decided to update itself to Windows 10 (without asking back, of
course) and decided to move all of Windows 8 into recovery partitions.
Instead of partitioning off space from the existing Windows partition,
it decided to rather junk all the Linux partitions and repurpose them.

This is why this is called the "Windows 10 anniversary edition": it's
like your wife celebrating your wedding anniversary by murdering your
mistress and draping her on your bed.

It is quite unclear how much, if anything, will be salvageable from his
actual work environment.

All of the Linux partitions are now "Windows recovery environment" or
"Microsoft basic data" partitions and it is not clear how much of the
original data will still be in there.

Really, if you still have some dual boot environment, remove the Windows
partition as fast as you can before it destroys your system.

Microsoft is taking the last stand on the desktop and will go down with
it.  Don't let it take out its despair on your property.

-- 
David Kastrup