Posts by geri

Actually Delphi is still a very quick and enjoyable IDE for Windows and with some limits to other platforms too. Compared to C/C++ compilation times it's way better.

Bottlenecks are hard to use external C libraries and the price, there's no way I pay about 1000 Euros every year for quality fixes and maybe one improved feature that's is useful for me.

Lazarus is the free way, has some flaws, but actually usable on any platforms and OK for real world use, though I only made smaller projects on that.

Win10 update is doing scary things:

Once it just added a new partition to my harddisk, so changing the naming of the volumes. As one was an encoded partition, it shocked me that I can longer mount that! All my work seemed to got lost... then I found I had to mount another partition to access my data...

Even Windows 10 Enterprise version is so aggressive on updating, that if not completely disabled (disable Windows update service and Windows modules installer service), then you can't use your computer for work, as all it does after turning on the PC is upgrading! CPU and hard disk is busy updating, not possible to work...

It's time to take back control over our computers.

Or maybe just run win 10 in a virtual box inside Linux - which is not for the everyday user for sure.