I need to rant,.. windows 10 is crap and I wish I never installed it

[EyelessCrow]

There are like 3-4 pages of tracking options that you can turn off when you install 10. If you click "express install" that's your own fault. I haven't had an issue with 10 and I feel it runs smoother than 7 did.

[cskx2001]

Exactly.

Best part is if you need to reinstall Windows 10, you do not need to enter a key or anything, the servers automatically authenticate for you as long as the motherboard is the same in the machine. Otherwise you gotta call in to verify but that is easy.

[Gaidax]

Windows 10 is solid, I have no idea what some guys are doing to break it.

As for privacy, well hot damn, now Microsoft knows what kind of porn I prefer, whatever am I going to do?

[Oktoberfest]

Why do you care about your privacy? Do you have something to hide?

Also you can turn off all the "privacy snoopers" if you want. Some through Windows itself, some with programs from the internet(that edit registry).

The assumption of guilt for those who do not have open doors and desks is the hallmark of all Totalitarian governments. Yeah fuck that

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Windows 10 is solid, I have no idea what some guys are doing to break it.

As for privacy, well hot damn, now Microsoft knows what kind of porn I prefer, whatever am I going to do?

Oh i dont know. Lets ask Martin Luther King


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/1...d-surveillance

FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance

The New York Times has published an unredacted version of the famous “suicide letter” from the FBI to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter, recently discovered by historian and professor Beverly Gage, is a disturbing document. But it’s also something that everyone in the United States should read, because it demonstrates exactly what lengths the intelligence community is willing to go to—and what happens when they take the fruits of the surveillance they’ve done and unleash it on a target.

[Kagthul]

Win 7 and 8 did all the same things, by and large.

[cskx2001]

Win 7 and 8 did all the same things, by and large.

It just was not publicly known because MS didn't give the user options to disable stuff, thus it was ignored.

[Denpepe]

When people are on about their privacy in win10 I think about this clip

[Torgent]

OP, your hardware is broken. Not Windows 10. The only problem I've had with windows 10 was that my girlfriend's surface pro didn't have good network drivers until about a month ago. Before that I gave her a usb wifi stick and it worked fine. I would have preferred for her to have used internal, but it really wasn't a big deal.

[vindicatorx]

Has anyone got any issues with windows 10 randomly freezing up and requiring a reboot?

Nope, mine runs like a dream to be honest I never have any issues.

[WintersLegion]

I upgraded to Win 10 a long time ago wasn't even a fresh install just upgraded from 8 only problem I've had has to do with audio drivers and is very minor for some reason when I'm watching a video online sometimes when I pause and restart the video the volume is really load even though windows still say's it's at the same I just have to adjust the volume either up or down and than back to what I want it at and the problem is gone.

[Viikkis]

Windows 10 should be avoided like no tomorow. Do not go above 7. If you value your privacy at all, ditch 10

10 is much more faster and lighter than 7 and privacy.. I don't care if NSA sees me browsing MMOchamp..

[Queen of Hamsters]

Everyone I know has Windows 10 but me, and no one has experienced any issues at all. I'm not updating until I buy new hardware because I'm lazy, but I'm confident I won't have any issues with Win10.

if all fails, trow it out of window and never buy a computer again, because you cant handel it

...So, being humble when giving advice is a dead practice?

[Warrax]

Overall it runs more stable than Windows 7

I repair/diag computers all days and I can tell you that it's far from being the truth, Windows 10 is more bugged and unstable than even Windows 8.1. Windows 7 is definitely the most stable Windows OS atm, by a good margin.

[Artorius]

I repair/diag computers all days and I can tell you that it's far from being the truth, Windows 10 is more bugged and unstable than even Windows 8.1. Windows 7 is definitely the most stable Windows OS atm, by a good margin.

Anecdotal evidence at its best.

Windows 10 does run graphically smoother than Windows 7 since it can make a better usage of the GPU at the desktop. It also has a better scheduler, a better memory management and a better driver structure.

Windows 8.1 is also better than Windows 7.

[Kagthul]

I repair/diag computers all days and I can tell you that it's far from being the truth, Windows 10 is more bugged and unstable than even Windows 8.1. Windows 7 is definitely the most stable Windows OS atm, by a good margin.

Yeah, your anecdotal evidence trumps reality.

[moremana]

I repair/diag computers all days and I can tell you that it's far from being the truth, Windows 10 is more bugged and unstable than even Windows 8.1. Windows 7 is definitely the most stable Windows OS atm, by a good margin.

This made me laugh

if you repair computers and you find 7 is the best OS, you need to find another career.

[Daerio]

This made me laugh

if you repair computers and you find 7 is the best OS, you need to find another career.

Guess that means me too.

I also work in IT and repair computers, and I use an old version of Win 7 for my main OS, without all those nice privacy-invading features M$ patched in later. I doubt I'll ever upgrade to using Windows 10.

Tell me more.

[Logwyn]

Windows 10 should be avoided like no tomorow. Do not go above 7. If you value your privacy at all, ditch 10

I have a tinfoil hat for you.

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Windows 10 sucks, avoid it like the plague.

People saying privacy is unimportant are really naive. You can't actually disable Cortana for real,

I don't have Cortana running. Hmm. Go Go powershell.

[Daerio]

I don't have Cortana running. Hmm. Go Go powershell.

Have you monitored your network traffic to confirm this, or are you talking about what shows up in your task manager or some other amateur silliness?

[Artorius]

Guess that means me too.

I also work in IT and repair computers, and I use an old version of Win 7 for my main OS, without all those nice privacy-invading features M$ patched in later. I doubt I'll ever upgrade to using Windows 10.

Tell me more.

If you really cared about this, and was nerdy/technical enough, you'd be using Linux/BSD by now.

MS has telemetry working on all their maintained windows versions, it really doesn't make a difference for them. And while this privacy thing is the same for all o them, the actual relevant technical side of it isn't. MS isn't stupid, they're not releasing a new OS that is objectively worse than the previous one in terms of performance.

Windows 7 is an improved Windows Vista, Windows 8/8.1 is an improved Windows 7 and Windows 10 is an improved Windows 8/8.1. It's really simple, they're not redoing their work at every new version of it, they just improve upon the previous one adequating it better for current hardware and current software trends.

Why does those 8 core AMD CPU perform way better under Windows 10 in comparison to Windows 7? Because the OS has a better CPU scheduler that can distribute things between the 8 pseudo-cores better (mainly treating them as hyperthreaded cores but yeah).

Not only this, the entire desktop environment runs smoother. Even scrolling, which is already very good at older versions of Windows, is smoother.

You can say that 5 years of software development didn't change anything, or made a worse product. But you're simply denying reality.