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From a support POV, Win 10 is a godsend. You can just refresh away user created issues. I honestly prefer it to 7.
This happens everywhere and all the time. Since this minimalism philosophy is everywhere and they run Administrator computers with 1GB RAM, small, ancient HDDs that never get fixes (cleanups /defrags).
Windows 7 with 1GB RAM single channel and HDD files mess. How would you expect it to work at all?
It's more than likely you are using that something that doesn't work with Win10 (and is broken) rather than the opposite view. Win10 is 3 years old and is far from broken
It's more than likely you are using that something that doesn't work with Win10 (and is broken) rather than the opposite view. Win10 is 3 years old and is far from broken
Of course its broken, just read all the posts everytime theres an update, im stuck in a boot loop, can't update, keeps failing, i lost this, lost that, it hosed my rig again etc... etc...
Of course its broken, just read all the posts everytime theres an update, im stuck in a boot loop, can't update, keeps failing, i lost this, lost that, it hosed my rig again etc... etc...
I remembered read Rroff post about a desktop took 20 mins to booted Windows Me, I don't know why he blamed Windows Me but Windows Me was not the issue, faulty either motherboard, hard drive or something was the issue. I remembered my old first PC I build with Gigabyte GA-5AX motherboard, AMD K6-2 3DNow CPU and very cheap 768MB generic RAM booted Windows Me in just a minute. I upgraded my mate's Compaq 486 PC he had from college through government grant from Windows 98 to Me and Windows Me booted in a minute. Same thing with my sister's old 486 PC I upgraded it to Windows Me and it booted in a minute.
Boot in 20 mins? NOPE!
You seem to have short term memory loss. The same update have plagued every other version of Windows when updates roll out, it invariably breaks something, somewhere for someone. The fundamental OS is not broken and just because the social media weight of those with issues seem to outweigh the millions without is a very short sighted viewpoint.
EDIT: Shortened the post a bit - are you sure that was ME? as XP and ME ostensibly had higher requirements (Intel Pentium arch) and refused to run on a lot of 486 systems and while you could make it work with the amounts of RAM typical on them at the time would commonly take 3-6 minutes to boot up - could be alleviated down the line by max upgrading the RAM but that wasn't really cost effective at the time.
Sure ME could boot quickly on some setups but it wasn't an uncommon story for it to be slow in some cases ridiculously slow and become even slower and more problematic if you didn't fresh install it regularly. The system I'm referring to came from the manufacturer with ME on but it really shouldn't - IIRC was a Pentium 75 and can't remember the RAM amount but I did upgrade it later to 64MB to try and help once RAM prices came down enough I could get the budget for it passed at work.
moved to fedora 3 years ago, not looked back. Removed the last windows 10 install off the kids this xmas, put it onto Ubuntu 18.04, the amount of free games and educational software I can install for them is great. They were always asking to use one of the fedora computers and none of them wanted to use the WIN10 PC, so I think that proves given a choice with no presumtions of what is better they decided for themselves. STEAM PLAY means I can play my steam library as well.
I only had one issue with W10 and that was when a update broke my boot sector and I needed to do a reinstall, other than that I haven't had any issues, the biggest problem is how Microsoft now data mine so heavily.
i didn't mind 8.1 in desktop mode anyway, better that 10 win10's mess.
Ive been on Win 7 since its release, and i was on the preview before that, when it was released, and ive not once had my rig hosed, had any files deleted, this that or the other, and thats about 9 years now.
Windows 10, doesn't even last 9 bloody minutes!
It'll be interesting to see what Win7 users do after EOL of Win7, will they cling to their dying OS forever or jump to Linux, personally I never had any real issues with Windows (or Linux for that matter) and I have used them all since Win3.11(except WinMe).
Will be interesting to see peoples opinions about Windows 10 in 5 years time. I remember all the bad press when XP first came out, now its held as one of the best OS ever.
One thing about Windows 10 is very sensitive to hardware. You can run Windows 7 on a computer with HDD errors and bad RAM. Try that with Windows 10 and watch it fall over, yet people say Windows 10 is crap when really their hardware is failing.
All my games are on Steam, Steamplay allows games to work.While it's great in theory, your kids are going to need to use and stay up to speed with Windows, schools and businesses will not be moving from Windows anytime soon and they are going to need to know how to use it.
I've several laptops with different distro's on, and as much as I'd love to move full time to Linux I can't justify it. Gaming and photoshop alternatives do not compare on Linux, my work laptop is windows 10 too.
The only issue I've had personally with Windows 10 is the constant update/upgrade assistant that is running as I moved from a pirated Win7 to a free upgrade Win10. I need to do a new fresh install and a new SSD but I haven't the time to move everything over yet. When I was doing desktop support, a lot of the problems were due to users but the 2 that really caused issues was the one where network adapters just stopped working and the other an odd issue with slowness due to hard drive usage making laptops unusable.
All my games are on Steam, Steamplay allows games to work.
Kids only use browser currently, basic word processing so it's not an issue.
There are plenty of powerful image/video tools for you to try.
Give yourself a month without booting into Windows, you will surprise yourself.