General / Off-Topic How many ppl have already dumped windows 10 from their computer
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I like Win 10 okay, but ever since my upgrade from 8.1 I have had more BSoD (rather the friendlier Light Blue SoD) crashes than ever before. Granted, they are never more than one every two days but it is still annoying.
They still haven't gotten around to properly supporting older drivers (my logitech joystick still prevents sleeping) as all my issues seem to point back to poorly supported drivers. I know I should go through everything and update, but I don't feel like it. Windows should just work.
My other PC is keeping Win 7 indefinitely since it is a dedicated Media PC & OTA DVR. I love Windows Media Center for its ease of use and dead simple UI. Dropping it from Win 10 is the most disappointing thing I've ever seen. The alternatives are all either too costly (Tivo) or don't pass the wife test (clunky UI, I'm looking at you XBMC/Kodi).
I'm hoping someone comes up with a WMC clone soon...because time is running out.
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Not that crazy
I've got a gaming PC (1)
A media PC (2)
MacBook Air (3)
PC Laptop for streaming games/media anywhere in the house (4)
And a garbage heap I'm trying to turn into another Media PC on which I will try some Linux based TV-DVRs(5)
Finally, another one (6) if the previous works out well (probably an Adurino or Rasberry Pi build).
They still haven't gotten around to properly supporting older drivers (my logitech joystick still prevents sleeping) as all my issues seem to point back to poorly supported drivers. I know I should go through everything and update, but I don't feel like it. Windows should just work.
My other PC is keeping Win 7 indefinitely since it is a dedicated Media PC & OTA DVR. I love Windows Media Center for its ease of use and dead simple UI. Dropping it from Win 10 is the most disappointing thing I've ever seen. The alternatives are all either too costly (Tivo) or don't pass the wife test (clunky UI, I'm looking at you XBMC/Kodi).
I'm hoping someone comes up with a WMC clone soon...because time is running out.
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Five machines ?
Not that crazy
I've got a gaming PC (1)
A media PC (2)
MacBook Air (3)
PC Laptop for streaming games/media anywhere in the house (4)
And a garbage heap I'm trying to turn into another Media PC on which I will try some Linux based TV-DVRs(5)
Finally, another one (6) if the previous works out well (probably an Adurino or Rasberry Pi build).
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I prefer it to Vista and Windows 7. Feels less bogged-down than those, somehow. I worried about it for months, but my upgrade was totally seamless.
Not that crazy
And a garbage heap I'm trying to turn into another Media PC on which I will try some Linux based TV-DVRs(5)
Finally, another one (6) if the previous works out well (probably an Adurino or Rasberry Pi build).
It is a data center
Wonder if any of you guys realize Microsoft only officially support Windows 10 now. 8.1 was killed this month. For people who seem to value their security, it's an odd decision to use an OS without ongoing security updates?
Experimented with Windows 10 on a friend's machine and I was horrified by it.
The alphabetic start menu must be the stupidest thing ever implemented in any OS.
I consider it a suit of badly designed data collection software.
I have a Windows 10 disk lying in the dust somewhere. I won't bother with it.
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Windows 7 is still supported and updated.
Extended support for Windows 7 lasts until January 14, 2020.
It will not get new features, but I haven't seen any yet that I need, not even DX 12.
So I'm good for now.
The alphabetic start menu must be the stupidest thing ever implemented in any OS.
I consider it a suit of badly designed data collection software.
I have a Windows 10 disk lying in the dust somewhere. I won't bother with it.
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Windows 7 is still supported and updated.
Extended support for Windows 7 lasts until January 14, 2020.
It will not get new features, but I haven't seen any yet that I need, not even DX 12.
So I'm good for now.
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Not true Tim - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle
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We'll probably get Windows 11 or 12 soon. I doubt I will ever have to install Windows 10, I will most likely even be able to skip 11 and 12.
Microsoft will of course skip 13, so my next update will be 14.
Didn't they say that this was the last one?
I've not experienced that issue on my system.
I hope you are aware that mainstream support for 7SP1 ended just about a year ago…
Anyway, I went back from Win10 to 8.1 on a laptop because it made an absolute mess of power management, would frequently screw up display resolution and window positioning, couldn't handle Bitlocker encrypted drives properly, and I found the overall look&feel absolutely deplorable. IMO 10 makes 8.1 look like an excellent user-friendly piece of software. People I play with who are on 10 have all kinds of flaky behaviour with sound, performance and other niceties, so I'm glad not to have stuck with it.
I have since then canceled the "preorder" on my other (desktop/workstation/gaming) machine.
Yes like ED. With the seasons inside
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win 8. running updates manually every day just to avoid ms sneaking in an update for w10.
i bought (*1) win 8 just a month ago. i don't know any issues with w10 (i don't care) but i would advise not to adopt any ms software less than about 2 years old. by then you can reasonably asume they have fixed at least the worst crap (or just ditched the fiasco altogether, see vista) and driver manufacturers have catched up. backwards compatibility however is rarely an issue. even if it's exclusively for gaming an os is no joke, it's a liability and a pita if you have to reinstall. never ever install at release for whatever reason, let other eager adopters take the well deserved hit and moan. 'windows' is a kind of 'progress' you really don't need to push forward, there's nothing worth to see.
*1. yes, i did it. after having used windows since 1.0, part time for development but mostly to run games, i finally bough my first copy! look what you have done to me, frontier!
i bought (*1) win 8 just a month ago. i don't know any issues with w10 (i don't care) but i would advise not to adopt any ms software less than about 2 years old. by then you can reasonably asume they have fixed at least the worst crap (or just ditched the fiasco altogether, see vista) and driver manufacturers have catched up. backwards compatibility however is rarely an issue. even if it's exclusively for gaming an os is no joke, it's a liability and a pita if you have to reinstall. never ever install at release for whatever reason, let other eager adopters take the well deserved hit and moan. 'windows' is a kind of 'progress' you really don't need to push forward, there's nothing worth to see.
*1. yes, i did it. after having used windows since 1.0, part time for development but mostly to run games, i finally bough my first copy! look what you have done to me, frontier!
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As that was directed at me I thought I'd just say that there have been zero issues on the 2 PCs I updated. Indeed, they're running better than they did under W7 and W8.
The third PC I'm keeping on W7 just for nostalgia really, I'll upgrade it before the free W10 year is out.
I'm in two minds about the whole privacy thing. Saw a talk by some older guy saying that it's a generation thing - older folks are "why do they want this data", "what will they do with my information?" and younger folks are more "Who cares?" and "If it makes it free, that's okay". Kind of interesting. I'm older and always turn off all the privacy revealing settings I can... but I'm not even sure why I do it! I don't have anything to hide, I don't really care about my "trivial" data, so why bother? I don't really know.
To be honest I found win10 a HUGE improvement over 8.1, they just seem to have brought back some common sense that was lost with 8/8.1. Although if my pc had started off with win 7 I may not have bothered to upgrade.
Honestly don't care what data MS collects from my pc, as long as whatever they're doing doesn't impact gaming performance I don't mind. I don't use my pc for banking/shopping or any social network junk, it's literally just a machine for running elite. All my Web browsing and other secure stuff is done on an android device.
Honestly don't care what data MS collects from my pc, as long as whatever they're doing doesn't impact gaming performance I don't mind. I don't use my pc for banking/shopping or any social network junk, it's literally just a machine for running elite. All my Web browsing and other secure stuff is done on an android device.
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As I'm still pondering a 7->10 upgrade I found myself wondering this morning if Windows 10 even lets you tweak things so that you have point to focus with the mouse without it also raising the newly focused window. This is something I've done since at least Windows XP, if not 98me. You need to tweak some registry entries to achieve it on Windows 7, but it's there.