After having happily used Win7 on my current PC since 2012 I finally upgraded to Win10 tonight due to Win7 no longer being supported. So now I get to have the full Win10 experience and you people are scaring me.
Don’t be scared, for the most part Win10 is great.
Nesrie
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Windows 10 is actually very good. They just need to stop pushing out broken crap to all of us. I mean it’s a step forward that they’re not longer forcing their broken crap but… maybe they should address the broken piece too.
Yeah, it’s the broken updates part that’s scaring me. I know the OS itself is fine. I used Win10 on my work machines all the time. I waited as long as I could for migration to give them time to improve their update process and at least it’s better now than it was. Same with their data gathering telemetry crap. I opted out of everything I could during the update.
I had thought you could set the delay for installing updates to 35 days in the latest version but mine says 7 days for the delay and I can’t change it to anything greater than that in the advanced settings. All I can do is pick a future install date up to 35 days out, which is different.
What I really don’t want is for the PC to restart on me to install updates when I’m doing something on my PC without my okay. Is there an advanced setting that will give you a restart confirmation prompt?
rei
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I would love for those still on xp/7 who have ignored lack of support warnings for years to be owned by something patched in the 10 but it would affect my doctors, dentists and parents.
Yeah, finally surrendered for the same reason. It’s clearly better than the trainwreck it was at launch, but I’m still not what you’d call enthusiastic.
Meanwhile, my elderly parents switched to Linux rather than give in to the hostage situation. Good for them, I say.
I have been considering doing this for my mom since she uses Thunderbird and Libre Office anyway, but my brother wants to Skype to her. Also, last time I ran Ubuntu on that box there were no drivers for the monitor IIRC.
Windows 10 is a lot more bearable if you install some customization software, such as Start10 and a few others.
It has gotten better in terms of general stability.
But the forced updates, additional forced telemetry, and adware apps in the start menu & similar have gotten worse as Microsoft has moved to a continuous update / no “boxed” release / no up-front cost model. Guess they’ve got to keep the cash rolling in somehow ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Diego
Teiman
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Since every version of windows requirements grown
there are hardware where a old version of windows run smoothly and the last version is a horrible slideshow
Long ago I used to be a Unix sys admin so I’d be down for that if only Windows wasn’t THE gaming platform. If it weren’t for the games I’d have said adios to Windows long ago. I wonder if Microsoft even realizes that games are all that’s keeping a sizable portion of their users on-board? The way they treat games/gamers on PC, probably not.
First question you need to answer before answering the questions you posted would be: Home, Pro, or Enterprise/Education edition?
Available configurable options are different between those three things. (Note my first-hand experience is exclusively with Enterprise/Education and Pro.)
Yeah, I have the home version and I know there aren’t as many options there. The advanced update options page has “Show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish updating”. I turned it on but I have no idea what the actual behavior is. Does it just flash a notice and reboot or does it actually pause there and let you respond with confirmation? That’s the biggest question I have.
Yeah, you’ll get a notification on the lower right that you need a restart, giving you option to restart now, later or schedule a time.
You “should” also be able to set active hours in Updates & Security during which reboots for updates will never be automatically initiated.
Yes, I see the active hours setting. That’s useful. Thanks.
Yeah, that’s where I’m at too.
So far I would think that Windows 10 users have had more problems than Win 8/7.1.
Personally, definetively more problems with Win10 than I ever had in 7/8/8.1 combined - even Vista.
plus those systems didn’t have adware and spyware.
I’d love for a Win10 only 0-day fucking over every single installation, including my own.
The forced bundling of security patches and ‘feature’ updates is an abomination - with Win8.1. you could go to the WIndows Update catalog and download a ‘security patch only’ pack.
The .NET installer not running the same patch method as other packages is madness.
Their lack of QA is… well, it worked for Boeing.
That’s wierd, because vista caused me all sorts of problems since inception.
So far, Windows 10 has only caused me a few troubles on by 16 gb, tablet and a very old laptop which might have had cooling issues.
Well, it was slow as hell and the beta version with their SQL Based file system was … well… not optimal, but after a service pack or two(?) it seemed to work quite nicely, course, once Russinovich got his hands on the kernel and fixed it for Win7 all was well in the world. Then Microsoft were going to conquer Mobile and decided to mess up the UI (something they are still at…) and now we’re here.
I had high hopes for SteamOS and Vulkan… maybe in 2022.
Lol, SteamOS.
Sure, 2022 will finally be the year of Linux.
As I said, Windows 10 hasn’t been as much trouble for me as it seems to be for other people.
