4436

I waited until last year to upgrade from Win7 so I probably avoided most of the trouble.

Win 8/10 Phone was very nice however. I miss it a lot.

4437

There’s games and there’s the billions of corporate Office users. It’s almost impossible to convince people they don’t need MS Office.

4438

I’m largely on the same page. I pretty much want a single OS that does everything, not a subset of things. Between gaming and corporate networking BS, as well as normal desktop user tomfoolery, Windows does everything, and Mac and Linux only do some things. I’d switch to either if they did it all.

4439

Nearly every game would work nicely under Linux (With WINE or whatever is the thing now) if it wasn’t for DRM, no?

4440

No it’s more complicated than that and why Proton work continues.

4441

I wonder if this will be something good

4442
4443

Wonder what they will break in the process.
(Yes, I really wonder that, not just snark :-) )
(Course, that too…)
(It is windows 10 after all).

Checked the Nvidia Reddit yesterday and there was all this talk about DCH drivers. I then realized that since my earlier issues with Win10 breaking the Store, I will probably be unable to run the Nvidia control panel if they ever decide to go 100% in on DCH drivers and abandon the good ones.

Good times ahead.

This reduced thing for the GPU, wonder if it will have any impact on G-Sync etc or the ultra low latency mode on Nvidia cards?

4444

There are people who use Microsoft’s media player apps and not VLC or MPC-HC?

4445

Sure, if you watch netflix via the UWP app.

4446

It could also have an impact of games performance, but we’ll need to see the benchmarks. And, presumably, the drivers will get refined after the 1.0 release.

4447

So friends, I have to be a bit confused by this:

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On one hand, Windows is saying I’m up to date. On the other hand, it’s offering me version 1909.

So I’m…not up to date? Should I update? I’m very confused. I hear 1909 isn’t great either. Help?

4448

1909 is fine, a very minor update.

4449

Seconded. 1909 is a very minor update, everything all sorted after 4+ months.

4450

Regarding 1909 / 1903 I believe they stated that you will already in most cases have all the files for 1909 on your computer and it is just waiting for a compatibility flag to let you ‘activate’ that version.

For everything Windows 10 however, it is safe to wait a long time before you venture to next version or update, unless you like being a free guinea pig for a billion dollar company.

4451

1909 is unique in that it isn’t a full update, it doesn’t do the whole thing where it essentially reinstalls Windows on top of itself. Install it, it’s fine.

Note 2004 will be a full update. That will be coming out in May, because MS can’t get its timing right and refuses to name them correctly.

4452

2004 hit release ring yesterday. It’s now on two of my machines. It’s not a particularly huge update, either. Cortana got separated into its own App. You can see GPU temps in Task Manager. I hear there’s some Linux subsystem stuff if you’re into that. OG Edge is now replaced with Chromium Edge.

After the catastrophes of a couple years ago, MS really slowed down the testing. 2004 basically feature-locked last year, and has spent months and months going through the Insider rings. Which is an improvement, because I once saw MS release a semin-annual Windows 10 update to Release Ring, and then the following day it released to EVERYONE. That was the one where shit hit the fan.

4453

1903 was extremely buggy, and that was only 1 year ago! Microsoft has a severe QA issue on their hands ever since they fired all their QA people, figured the wisdom of the crowd would fix it, then ignored unpaid tester feedback.

But yeah, 1909 was really solid, although it was an extremely a minor update. If 2004 is stable too then maybe they fixed their QA faults.

4454

Windows always told me I’m up to date, but checking now I realize I’m only on 1809, which apparently will lose support later in the year. Does that mean I have to buy a new version? Or is there an upgrade button I’m not seeing somewhere?

4455

Windows Update. Check for Updates. It should let you know a Feature Update is available.