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Windows 10 yay or nay?

  • Yay

    Votes: 18 45.0%

  • Nay

    Votes: 22 55.0%
  • Total voters
    40
I had to jump through some hoops to get mine going. For starters, I grabbed the downloader/launcher instead of waiting forever for Windows Update. Using the options within the software to upgrade had me waiting forever for W10 to download (I'm on a slow line) only to begin installing and giving me an error in the middle of it, killing it. I tried doing the other option of having it write the install to my USB stick, but when trying to run upgrade I'd get more nonspecific errors and jibberish and it'd quit. So, I finally told the software to download the CD/DVD .iso file and used my trusty pal the Windows USB/DVD Download Tool, wrote it to USB finally and launched the setup.exe to get the ball rolling. Could just be my computer being a dick as well.

(grammar no so good at 3 AM)
 
I'm going to wait about a month to see if more patches are delivered that should have been there on day one.
 
So far, I'm liking what I am seeing. Only a few little gripes and I might accumulate more but for now, not bad.

For starters I don't know if it's the new NVIDIA drivers or if Win10 is actually optimizing it better but GTA V runs like butter. I know it's still running on DX11 but before where I had to turn off a features I have just about anything I want turned on to Ultra fullscreened at 2560x1600. I'm leaning to something on the OS side because I didn't change my GPU (980ti) for the upgrade.

Can't say I miss the "metro" or whatever it was officially called in 8.1. At most I'd just hit the Win key and type what program I wanted, so now actually having a Start button back is odd to me. Maybe I'll look into organizing it with tiles to how I want but most likely not, we'll see. From what I've messed around with in there it is pretty slick though.

I usually prefer clean installs with my operating system but in this case, you can't really do that because of tied keys blah blah. I've done Windows "upgrades" in the past, like when I tried 7 to 8 and it told me it saved all my programs then slapped it's dick in my face and said lol nuh uh, a Windows 8.1 to 10 upgrade actually kept all my software and even the icons on my desktop. The future is here!

Microsoft Edge is the first time I've used a MS browser since 1995 when I was a dumb baby and didn't know any better. It has been surprisingly nice and seems to take less RAM than Chrome does (I don't think I like Chrome anymore anyway). Obviously missing extension features, etc. I've had to go back to blocking ads through my host file to keep using this. Did Firefox ever fix their shit? Oh well.

If you are still weary, maybe try it out first in a virtual desktop. But it's been a solid experience to this moment.
 
Green Puddin said:
Can't say I miss the "metro" or whatever it was officially called in 8.1. At most I'd just hit the Win key and type what program I wanted, so now actually having a Start button back is odd to me. Maybe I'll look into organizing it with tiles to how I want but most likely not, we'll see. From what I've messed around with in there it is pretty slick though.
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Metro is still in Windows 10. Metro refers to the style of the UI they used for 8.1 which was the minimalistic blocky flat color look. The start menu for Windows 8 is also still in the operating system. However it is only enabled when you enter "tablet mode". Which you can do by going into your settings.
Green Puddin said:
Microsoft Edge is the first time I've used a MS browser since 1995 when I was a dumb baby and didn't know any better. It has been surprisingly nice and seems to take less RAM than Chrome does (I don't think I like Chrome anymore anyway). Obviously missing extension features, etc. I've had to go back to blocking ads through my host file to keep using this. Did Firefox ever fix their shit? Oh well.
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They've stated a lot of features for Edge won't be available for a while, extensions is one of them.

They've also stated Edge was designed to be much faster than Chrome. It's why they renamed Internet Explorer entirely for the OS.
ShavedSheep said:
Operating systems NEVER have their shit together on day 1, thats common practice.
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In my experience operating systems aren't worth upgrading to until their first service pack.
 
Watcher said:
Metro is still in Windows 10. Metro refers to the style of the UI they used for 8.1 which was the minimalistic blocky flat color look. The start menu for Windows 8 is also still in the operating system. However it is only enabled when you enter "tablet mode". Which you can do by going into your settings.

They've stated a lot of features for Edge won't be available for a while, extensions is one of them.

They've also stated Edge was designed to be much faster than Chrome. It's why they renamed Internet Explorer entirely for the OS.
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Ah, I didn't know this. I've kinda stumbled into Windows 10 like a confused drunken uncle.

And speaking of the command line from earlier, look at... this! Feast Squint your eyes!
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Green Puddin said:
Ah, I didn't know this. I've kinda stumbled into Windows 10 like a confused drunken uncle.

And speaking of the command line from earlier, look at... this! Feast Squint your eyes!
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Dude, FUCK command line, Powershell is where it's at.
I am in love with how great it is getting.

I have some computers at home I could try throwing Windows 10 on for a trial run.
 
Green Puddin said:
I just use it out of sheer using-that-shit-forever, change is hard

EDIT: Updating my Windows tablet lol
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Powershell can do all your regular CMD commands. And a hell of a lot more. Look into it if you are a fan of CLI
 
ShavedSheep said:
Dude, FUCK command line, Powershell is where it's at.
I am in love with how great it is getting.

I have some computers at home I could try throwing Windows 10 on for a trial run.
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It's only about 2 decades to late having that functionality.
 
I guess it is ok if you want Microsoft to know every time when and where you take a shit. It doesn't seem right to have a 45 page informaton privacy policy and have to navigate through 11+ config panels so every person around you with 10 can't see your machine and possibly your porn folders.

Also: unskippable advertising in solitaire, and microsoft gets to make more jew gold by selling the data they get about everything you do to advertisers. But they've already been doing that
 
John Furrman said:
I guess it is ok if you want Microsoft to know every time when and where you take a shit. It doesn't seem right to have a 45 page informaton privacy policy and have to navigate through 11+ config panels so every person around you with 10 can't see your machine and possibly your porn folders.

Also: unskippable advertising in solitaire, and microsoft gets to make more jew gold by selling the data they get about everything you do to advertisers. But they've already been doing that
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Yea that's going to be a pain, one of my old Tech's sent a almost identically worded email to me and he is working on a small Script to disable the annoying stuff like over sharing.
 
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