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Windows 10, Yay or Nay?

Dngrsone said:
But... it's the future! :rolleyes:

BTW, took a look at the multiple desktops feature... they're only two decades behind KDE on that.
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Yeh, don't you just love it?? I just got a taste of Linux Mint 17.3 around Christmas time..... right after suffering through about 3 months of Win10 upgrade onto a brand new replacement laptop for a darned good one with Win7 on it.... it went KaRash onto the floor and never worked again :oops:

On one of the forums somewhere, I just read a few days ago that a very stealthy code reader found several Linux modules are now running down below Win10 to "fix up some crashing problems" that Windows10 had... :D
Microsoft changed the name of the modules, but the code was Linux.... :p:p

I read in another deep thought technical newsletter that Microsoft is no longer going to issue "Version Numbers" for Win10.... it is just going to be an "On Going" patching process from now until Eternity Freezes over.... and they aren't going to allow us to look at, or stop any patching that goes on....

so, when I read that one, I formatted the hard drive on that "brand new" marvelous Win10 POS and installed Linux ;)
 
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Just when I thought this thread was dead...

I have three partitions on my hard drive. I have Win7 on one, with GWX Control Panel installed to prevent it from 'upgrading' itself to Win10. This morning I did a clean install of Win10 on a separate partition. Everything was going fine, but when I booted to Win7, I noticed that GWX Control Panel was missing! I couldn't find a trace of it. Far as I can tell, Win10 did this to my Win7... possible?

I have since reinstalled GWX and it has remained, so far.
 
And as proof that W10 is aware of W7 living right next door, I skipped entering the W10 activation, but once it was installed, it magically showed as activated.
 
jefboyardee said:
And as proof that W10 is aware of W7 living right next door, I skipped entering the W10 activation, but once it was installed, it magically showed as activated.
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Windows 10 activation (at least in the case of the free upgrade) is tied to your hardware, not a serial key, so you only have to activate it once.

That was why you couldn't do a fresh install of windows 10, initially. You had to upgrade a valid install of vista/7/8, at which point your hardware would be associated with a windows 10 licence, after which fresh installs of 10 are possible.
 
Apparently it doesn't. With GWX running, good ol' KB 3035583 showed up as a new update. I just hid it again, didn't bother to click Okay and see if GWX would keep it from installing.
 
jefboyardee said:
Apparently it doesn't. With GWX running, good ol' KB 3035583 showed up as a new update. I just hid it again, didn't bother to click Okay and see if GWX would keep it from installing.
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I just now looked again, and also found that Microsoft forced that back onto my Win7 system.

but, I only have Updates set as "Notify", I never allow them to download, or run automatically anymore.

Win10 is again, stopped from intruding on my space..... I darn sure do not need my desktop full of that Win10 crap...
I got enough of that on my laptop.... 3 months of trying to make it palatable to me, ended up with me formatting the hard drive and installing Linux as the only OS on that laptop.

I have a good friend, who has a WinXP workstation that is still in daily use. He has a lot of apps used in his business that will not run on anything except XP.
 
yeah, I have a buddy, who has a "game freak" friend who just built a new super deluxe game machine.
he uses Liquid Nitrogen? maybe CO2?? to cool the processor, has a huge amount of RAM ( 128 gB ) ??
the processor also has a stupid amount of gBtes of display RAM.....

he says it is just totally awesome to what that thing handle the super freak multiPlayer games....

I was never into that, one keyboard and a text reader :D
 
LV426 said:
Hey it turns out that when have a computer with 16GB RAM, a super fast SSD and a blazingly quick quad core processor, you can actually live with Windows 10. ;)
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While I prefer Linux, I must stop bashing Windows as the masses will generally use it anyway. Win10 runs quite well even on older (Vista era) hardware and I've installed it on several for friends that I cannot convert. For those, I just provide a stock installation as tweaking it is just too time consuming. The forced (non-selectable) updates will usually undo much of my customization anyway.
 
Yes, the Windows newsletters I am reading tell me that Microsoft is undoing the tweeks that we put into it....
very frustrating for those of use who mold the machine to fit our personal likes.

that is why, I gave up on Win10 with my laptop, installed Linux and told it to format the hard drive.
job one, done.
 
LV426 said:
Hey it turns out that when have a computer with 16GB RAM, a super fast SSD and a blazingly quick quad core processor, you can actually live with Windows 10. ;)
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I'm using Win 10 on a tablet with 2GB RAM, which is SSD of course, and it's still responsive, no lag, even for some gaming like Asphalt 8. Although it spends much of its time plugged into my not-so-smart Konka TV's HDMI, for streaming TV, movies, etc. CCTV's website requires Flash for watching, as their app is just horrible and full of adware and fooky permissions.
 
I absolutely love Windows 10! There are still a few rough edges to polish, but it's great, both on PC/Tablet and on mobile (which is still very much BETA, butI love using it on my work phone).
 
Been living with Win10 for a while now. It's a secondary OS for me as I dual boot with PCLOS on the HP laptop, and triple boot with Mint 17.1 ans PCLOS on the destop. My other ACER laptop is Xubuntu LTS.

The only reason I still have Windows is for Office 2013/2010 on Desktop and Laptop respectively and some audio software with no Linux equivalent.

That said, Win10, privacy issues aside, works very well, it's what 8/8.1 were meant to be.
 
I have a clean w10 on a separate partition, just to see if it behaves. All the updates have installed, but it doesn't seem to be able to update KB2267602 for Windows Defender. I try, it fails without saying anything, then I go back to w7, where everything makes sense.
 
jefboyardee said:
Apparently it doesn't. With GWX running, good ol' KB 3035583 showed up as a new update. I just hid it again, didn't bother to click Okay and see if GWX would keep it from installing.
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Another thing I've noticed is that GWX hasn't updated since mid-January. But with all the tricks MS has pulled since then to get us to accidentally install W10, I'd expect that GWX would've kept up. Maybe they were disappeared...
 
I noticed that GWX did not catch one of MS's little tricks, and I did a reinstall of the 1st copy of it I have.
I have not gone to look to see if they have it updated....

My solution was, I just turned OFF all MS updates.... I have frozen my Win7 in time, right where it is.
I have images of it if anything goes astray, but I have never had anything outside of my box mess with me.
guess I lead too spartan a life for the hackers to mess with me.

no porn movies, no Dark Web surfing, I'm just too tame for them to care about me.
 
jefboyardee said:
Win10 is workable, just not as familiar as W7.
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FTFY, Jef. ;)

Seriously, I think it's just getting used to it. I've got a clean install on an i5, ssd & 8GB ram and it's perfectly useable. There are some bugs/quirks, but it's MS so' i'd expect no less. ;)

I do think they are lagging behind with fixing or updating drivers. I've had a couple instances after the last round of patches where letting my PC go to sleep had it refuse to wake up properly and I had to force a cold boot. I found some similar threads on MS technet that seems to point to video drivers, but there are none newer from either MS or Intel.
 
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