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   August Abolins to Nick Andre   
   Installing Windows 11 on unsupported   
   05 Mar 22 21:31:00   
   
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   TZUTC: -0500   
   Hello Nick Andre!   
      
   ** On Saturday 05.03.22 - 20:20, Nick Andre wrote to Sean Dennis:   
      
    NA> I see they're running a new commercial on TV touting the   
    NA> "faster gaming" capabilities... of which I could care less   
    NA> as I'm not a gamer.   
      
   If it's the same commercial that I think it is, it also shows     
   some apparently good-looking people (assumingly smart) using     
   win11 for "high-speed" collaboration of updating art or     
   documents. :/ They are depicted as being very happy and     
   excited!   
      
   My question is, WHY the need for a Win11 commercial in the   
   first place? Is the market suffering somehow with people     
   staying with previous OS versions or perhaps trying Linux or     
   iOS for the first time?   
      
    NA> What really was a big letdown was the way that you cannot   
    NA> have labels on taskbar items anymore, just icons. I see no   
    NA> logical reason for them to change that behavior. And this   
    NA> becomes a real mess when working with multiple instances   
    NA> of the same program, document, spreadsheet etc.   
      
   Maybe the aformentioned "smart" people do one THING at a time     
   anyway!  LOL   
      
    NA> And its 2022 and adding an IP printer is still a   
    NA> convoluted mess.   
      
   That reminds me of the rigmarole that I went through to connect     
   an IP printer to my network at the shop.  I was really excited     
   when it did finally work!  But that was back with Win7. I'm     
   surprised that Win11 still doesn't address the IP printer issue     
   properly!   
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