Spracky Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Who else has installed Windows 10? I hadn't got the notification to install so I went to Microsoft's website and got their media creation tool. I decided to go ahead and do a clean install it's installing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svarog Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I'm also interested to know if that OS is any good. After Windows 8 decided to fail on my GF's notebook and after my Windows 7 decided to slow down to a crawl we switched over to Ubuntu. I really wonder if Miscrosoft is even capable of making a good OS again instead of constantly "experimenting" with features that noone asked for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e46s13 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 From what  I heard windows 10 is just a revamped with some extras of windows 8 since they failed horribly with 8. SpaceJunk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brybry Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I've been running the same Windows 7 partition (profile hand migrated from a windows XP install from 2007) across multiple computers for 5 years without any meaningful slowdown. But I'm also not a typical user.I'm not going to update my desktop anytime soon but I've been playing with the insider program preview in a VM for a while. Windows 10 is a definite improvement on Windows 8 and makes the OS more like traditional Windows.The new start menu is probably better than the Windows 7 start menu if you have a lot of applications that you like to pin/favorite.The task and resource manager has more useful information even though the UI uses more space in some cases.They've finally caught up to linux of 15 years ago (and Windows XP with extensions) with multiple desktop support.The bootloader is better than the Windows 7 bootloader (though it's basically the windows 8 bootloader -- which was also better.)The new action/notification center has a lot of potential for centralizing app notifications.Conhost (the console) is improved so cmd.exe and powershell are better.Scheduled restarts (it can automatically schedule at time you don't use the computer) for windows updates is way better than the annoying behavior in Windows 7 and previous (I don't remember what it was like in Windows 8 as I rarely use Windows 8.) Still dumb that you have to restart for 99% of updates though. That said, it still has a lot of metro (or at least metro-inspired) apps that take up more space to display the same information for the sake of ease of use with touch interface devices.They change icons for the sake of change without actually making them meaningfully represent anything better, which is confusing for users.It has some dumbing down of features to make them easier for the average user. For example, Windows updates are pretty much entirely automatic without letting you pick and choose what updates you want. Sure, you can manually uninstall updates and then use a tool to hide those updates from getting reinstalled but this is a feature regression.I ran into various other small configuration regressions where the UI either didn't support the configuration option or it was moved to a place that I didn't know. I'm sure the registry settings haven't been removed for those options but, again, regression!Search is much improved so that is helpful in finding things but I usually turn off Windows Search on Win 7 systems because that is one of those features that usually doesn't scale well as a computer ages / the index size increases.I'm not a big fan of stuff like the Microsoft Store because that's another background process that I have to learn and disable because it's a feature that I just don't care about. Supposedly some services will automatically stop when they're no longer needed but I've yet to actually observe that happen. If you're running Windows 8 then I would upgrade but I don't see any meaningful reason to update from Windows 7 at this time. Svarog and mads232 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spracky Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 I had about 10 minutes to play around with it. It seems very sleek and fast, definitely preferred over Windows 8.1. The UI actually reminds me a bit about Ubuntu personally (at least the style is similar). On top of additional desktops, which are amazing, Windows 10 also adds a "mission control" type of feature, which is pretty handy. So far so good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwps Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 For those who have xbox ones its gonna be quite handy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalKip Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 What about Cortana ? Anyone tried ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdr.Keen Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 i think i'll run the update next week. my 5 year old win7 is crashing all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spracky Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 For those who have xbox ones its gonna be quite handy I'm going to try streaming todayWhat about Cortana ? Anyone tried ?Cortana works like a charm, except for the fact that it uses the bing search engine. I'll try to change that today. Her voice sounds very natural. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Can't wait to pay 10 bucks a year for an ad-free version of Solitaire.Apparently they've removed the option to install updates automatically with a recent build edit: the option to disable automatic updates with a recent build. Removed the registry entry as well.There still is a hacky way to do it apparently SpaceJunk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spracky Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Can't wait to pay 10 bucks a year for an ad-free version of Solitaire.Apparently they've removed the option to install updates automatically with a recent build. Removed the registry entry as well.There still is a hacky way to do it apparently I never actually used automatic updating, so luckily that doesn't affect me. If we're being honest I don't even know what the registry entry is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Can't wait to pay 10 bucks a year for an ad-free version of Solitaire. Apparently they've removed the option to install updates automatically with a recent build. Removed the registry entry as well. There still is a hacky way to do it apparentlyOh, does that mean they'll be getting rid of the ad-free version in the app store, then? Surely there's more to that auto-update thing, considering the number of people who've claimed it ruins their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015  Can't wait to pay 10 bucks a year for an ad-free version of Solitaire.Apparently they've removed the option to install updates automatically with a recent build. Removed the registry entry as well.There still is a hacky way to do it apparentlyI never actually used automatic updating, so luckily that doesn't affect me. If we're being honest I don't even know what the registry entry is.... My wording was wrong. I meant it's not an option anymore, which means they are mandatory.Better, correct wording:They removed the option to disable the automatic installation of updates in a recent build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 No. No! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spracky Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Well this sucks.Even still, my computer before the update was all screwed up, so I did a clean install and Steam no longer gives me problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Oh and Solitaire only has ads if you want to play the challenge modes where you can compete with friends and for online leaderboards. The solo thing is ad-free apparently. So meh. Kitt Frostpaws 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formosus Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Windows 10 is awesome! © Jason Statham P.S. Edge is awesome too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethanwdp Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Nnnnope. I'm staying on Windows 7 until I'm certain Microsoft hasn't fucked up again. I've been hearing a lot of bad press. lerk and SpaceJunk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Nnnnope. I'm staying on Windows 10 until I'm certain Microsoft hasn't fucked up again. I've been hearing a lot of bad press.You mean something else than 10 right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethanwdp Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015  Nnnnope. I'm staying on Windows 10 until I'm certain Microsoft hasn't fucked up again. I've been hearing a lot of bad press.You mean something else than 10 right  Shit, I meant 7. Not sleeping for 24 hours miiiiight be a slight detriment to my focus capabilities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Shit, I meant 7. Â Not sleeping for 24 hours miiiiight be a slight detriment to my focus capabilities Aye, I'm gonna stick with 7 as well, while watching how Win10 turns out from a safe distance. Kitt Frostpaws, mads232 and ethanwdp 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitt Frostpaws Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015  Shit, I meant 7. Not sleeping for 24 hours miiiiight be a slight detriment to my focus capabilities Aye, I'm gonna stick with 7 as well, while watching how Win10 turns out from a safe distance.  Watch all of us cavemen pointing and laughing as the soon-to-be overlord of the world takes over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connall Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015  Shit, I meant 7. Not sleeping for 24 hours miiiiight be a slight detriment to my focus capabilities Aye, I'm gonna stick with 7 as well, while watching how Win10 turns out from a safe distance.  Wise choice. I'm of the mind set that the reason Windows 10 is free, is because they're trying to suck people into the new MS ecosystem, which requires subscriptions into their services rather than a physical product. Move towards the cloud I guess, a direction I'm not a fan of. headzit, Tomwa, ethanwdp and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethanwdp Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015   Shit, I meant 7. Not sleeping for 24 hours miiiiight be a slight detriment to my focus capabilities Aye, I'm gonna stick with 7 as well, while watching how Win10 turns out from a safe distance.  Wise choice. I'm of the mind set that the reason Windows 10 is free, is because they're trying to suck people into the new MS ecosystem, which requires subscriptions into their services rather than a physical product. Move towards the cloud I guess, a direction I'm not a fan of. Yep. They've been screwing up a lot lately. They even skipped Windows 9 entirely, for whatever reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spracky Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 The reason for the Windows 9 skip is because a lot of the Windows 95 code used just the digit "9" when coding for ease, which would cause a lot of problems when trying to make a new OS named Windows 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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