Windows 10's terrible installer
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Windows 10's terrible installer
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Re: Windows 10's terrible installer
#2It's not clear how this is more than FUD based blogspam.
Re: Windows 10's terrible installer
#3As a virt developer I spend a lot of time installing Windows and various Linux distros, and Windows (all versions) has terrible installers. However I'm also not surprised by this: almost no end user needs to run the Windows installer since the main way they get Windows is preinstalled on their PC.
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#4I have updated several machines and had no problem at all.
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#5Getting that dreaded "Something happened" error on my machine... very annoying.
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#6Barely three paragraphs of text, not much background, and a bordering hyperbolic headline. Not the sort of "article" I would hope to see.
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#7I just did a factory restore of my Windows 7 PC last night in preparation of the Windows 10 update. After finishing 4 years of Windows Updates (eventually), I wasn't offered an opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10 via Windows Update. Apparently, it's given out at random and you can't manually request it.
In order to manually update, you apparently have to download the Windows 10 ISO (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I... ) and create a boot media? And some are saying that this doesn't count as an "upgrade" for the Win7/Win8.1 Product Key. Maybe.
The Windows 10 upgrade path is more confusing than it needs to be.
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#8That's strange.
We have a pile of the new Intel Compute Sticks, HDMI windows 8.1 x86 devices. They're pretty slick. So, I threw Win10 on them.
My big complaint is that the install took 2.5 hours. That sucked. And then it came up.
Like a charm. Super smooth, responsive and it just worked. Admittedly, I didnt have a firefox window to surf the web whilst being installed, but this was a 1 time affair.
I'm rather impressed with Win10 so far.
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#9Here's a helpful link
http://www.howtogeek.com/190217/10-alternative-pc-operating-...
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#10No offence to the poster but stealing images from a Reddit mega thread, one of which is an outlier error and the other being 2 lines of text that wasn't changed in the "help" text, does not a terrible installer make. The same thread has hundreds if not thousands of posts indicating how easy the install was, only a few people are having issues which is to be expected on a product launch.
Also if you say, " I cant remember an instance in the last 10 years when it just failed on me randomly while updating Windows", I really can't take you seriously, especially with the qualifier: that Windows updater is a "rock solid" platform.