• Good-bye, HomeGroups

    Posted on December 20, 2017 at 08:26 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Microsoft has officially announced that HomeGroups will be completely deprecated in the next version of Windows 10 – presumably version 1803.

    Those of us who grew up on HomeGroups are a bit miffed.

    I used to use them, but have tapered off in recent years. One of my favorite tricks for getting a machine connected to a local network: Run the HomeGroup Troubleshooter. I found that, if I could join a HomeGroup, usually the network sorted itself out: The HomeGrouped PC could see the other PCs on the network, and the others could see the newly admitted PC.

    In more recent years, I’ve basically given up on Windows local networking. Too much hassle, and it broke too frequently. Now, I share files using Dropbox. Works like a champ, on any version of Windows.

    A little side-note: The best local networking I’ve seen – ever – is the peer-to-peer networking in the Raspberry Pi version of Minecraft. You attach a Pi to your local network, fire up Minecraft, and suddenly you can play against anybody else who’s running Minecraft. It. Just. Works.

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