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The woes of Windows 10

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Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by reacharavindh »

hfsktr wrote: post #164

I must be in the huge minority. I haven't had a single issue with Windows 10 (if we disregard privacy). Literally everything has just worked. I will say thinking about it that my computer used for 99.99% gaming/internet/text documents. I keep anticipating that something is going to go horribly wrong but so far it's been great. I hate the menu and store that it shows so almost everything I tend to open has a shortcut…

Interesting. Is anyone aware of a set of hacks to get rid of selective annoyances/known privacy violations and turn Win 10 into something that feels like Win 7? - Cortana - Searches that connect to Internet/bing - call back to homeship - other features that not everyone wants that I haven't listed...

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by ino »

elorant wrote: post #272

I had a rather odd problem with Win10 and that is it hurt my eyes. I don't know whether they changed something with ClearType or for some other reason but after two days I reverted back to Win7. Other than that, I really didn't like the UI. To change colors in menus you have to use a hack because the preselected list of colors is just dreadful, the start menu once again is all over the place and various other mishaps…

They don't care. Even the default background has big JPEG artifacts.

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by nikanj »

Nition wrote: post #302
scholia wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot in the Control Panel. The more you move to the new Settings app, the more complicated Settings gets. And if Microsoft didn't provide all those settings, or dropped the whole Control Panel, there would be a tornado of criticism. Life is hard when you have 1.5 billion users, especially when a lot of them resist attempts to modernise or even update the system. Do it all at once, they'll complain bitterly.…

I'd understand that more if it was all esoteric power-user type stuff that was missing in the new system. But stuff like mouse pointer speed? Apparently Misrosoft has said that they do want to drop the old-style control panel eventually. I realise it's a huge job, but it feels very like a half-finished feature right now.

In my Mouse panel, there's an additional tab created by the Trackpad drivers.

I can only guess how many proprietary extensions have been built to rely on the old Control Panel interfaces, and how few of them will ever be updated to Windows 10.

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by bmon »

trendia wrote: post #137
rwc wrote: post #24

> Chromebooks are now outselling MacBooks in the crucial education market, where long-term preferences tend to be established. Apple has historically held a dominant position in the education market, so how does one square the "long-term preferences tend to be established" portion of that sentence with the 8% marketshare MacOS commands?

Unfortunately, Chromebooks will struggle with the engineering crowd, where software like ANSYS, Matlab, AutoCAD, etc. are required.

My experience too. My chromebook has easily been the best value for money computer I've ever purchased, but it's just not the right device for development outside of the web browser. Maybe sometime soon browser based cad tools will become more widely adopted but there are some serious limitations imposed by web browsers that make that difficult to see happening anytime soon.

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by douche »

reacharavindh wrote: post #351
hfsktr wrote: post #164

I must be in the huge minority. I haven't had a single issue with Windows 10 (if we disregard privacy). Literally everything has just worked. I will say thinking about it that my computer used for 99.99% gaming/internet/text documents. I keep anticipating that something is going to go horribly wrong but so far it's been great. I hate the menu and store that it shows so almost everything I tend to open has a shortcut…

Interesting. Is anyone aware of a set of hacks to get rid of selective annoyances/known privacy violations and turn Win 10 into something that feels like Win 7? - Cortana - Searches that connect to Internet/bing - call back to homeship - other features that not everyone wants that I haven't listed...

Find an ISO of the Long-Term Servicing Branch distribution - LTSB. It has all of the crap stripped out, and is quite fantastic. All the goodness, nothing that people complain about constantly with Win 10. No Edge, no Store, no Cortana, no ads or telemetry.

I accidentally downloaded it from MSDN after my laptop's hard drive failed and I couldn't find any of my previously-burned DVDs or USB sticks.

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by eumoria »

Retr0spectrum wrote: post #165
eumoria wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time I hear about updates being "forced," yes, Microsoft did some shady things to trick non-tech people into the upgrade which I agree is shady. However any competent IT manager would know how to stop that from happening. Even a cursory google search shows you how to remove the windows update that starts the upgrade. Also all computers on a network domain will not auto update. Each time I read of an IT manager…

Clearly something has gone very wrong when an IT manager allowing a software update is considered to be making a "Massive Mistake".

I do agree with this... Microsoft handled this terribly and the opt-out should have been obvious and permanent.

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by computerex »

hfsktr wrote: post #164

I must be in the huge minority. I haven't had a single issue with Windows 10 (if we disregard privacy). Literally everything has just worked. I will say thinking about it that my computer used for 99.99% gaming/internet/text documents. I keep anticipating that something is going to go horribly wrong but so far it's been great. I hate the menu and store that it shows so almost everything I tend to open has a shortcut…

Windows search is still so bad.

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by cheald »

daveguy wrote: post #234
ciaranm wrote: post #229

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I really, really like Windows 10. I spend most of my work days in OS X on a Macbook Pro - but I also spend a lot of my free time gaming. Windows 10 is so much more user-friendly than any other OS I use. Settings are easy to find, generally easy to understand and change. Search is great. It boots super fast. It's about to get a 'game-mode' to restrict resources from background apps. Installing stuff from the Windows s…

> Settings are easy to find Hah. You're lucky your Cortana bar still works. They aren't as easy to find when your Cortana bar disappears when you click it. Tried all the random fixes on the internet to no avail. I never even tried to fix privacy concerns -- it just broke.

I have Cortana turned completely off and settings are really easy to get to. Win key -> sett isn't particularly difficult. Or just typing in part of the setting usually finds it right away.

Re: The woes of Windows 10

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Post by computerex »

Nition wrote: post #302
scholia wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot in the Control Panel. The more you move to the new Settings app, the more complicated Settings gets. And if Microsoft didn't provide all those settings, or dropped the whole Control Panel, there would be a tornado of criticism. Life is hard when you have 1.5 billion users, especially when a lot of them resist attempts to modernise or even update the system. Do it all at once, they'll complain bitterly.…

I'd understand that more if it was all esoteric power-user type stuff that was missing in the new system. But stuff like mouse pointer speed? Apparently Misrosoft has said that they do want to drop the old-style control panel eventually. I realise it's a huge job, but it feels very like a half-finished feature right now.

Totally agree, it's very half-baked atm.
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