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Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard
MojoKid writes: The upgrade cycle begins, with Microsoft's latest operating system--the highly anticipated Windows 10--rolling out over Windows Update for free, for users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. For those that are ready to take the plunge over the weekend, there are some things to note. So far, Microsoft has been rolling out the upgrade in waves and stages. If you are not one of the 'lucky' ones to be in the first wave, you can take matters into your own hands and begin the upgrade process manually. While the process is mostly simple, it won't be for everyone. This guide steps through a few of the strategies and pitfalls. There are two main methods to upgrade, either through Windows Update or through the Media Creation Tool. In either case, you will need to have opted-in for the Windows 10 Free Upgrade program to reserve your license. Currently, the Windows Update method is hit or miss due to the requirement for additional updates needing to be installed first and Microsoft's servers being hit hard, leading to some rather humorous error messages like the oh-so helpful description, "Something Happened." Currently, it would be best to avoid the Windows Update upgrade, at least for the time being. Numerous issues with licensing have been reported, requiring manual activation either through the dreaded phone call, or by running slmgr.vbs /ato at the command prompt to force license registration.
Here is a collage of privacy violations in Windows 10. Is it really an upgrade?
The surface pro and Surface pro 2 BOTH have had non stop issues with wireless drivers for two reasons.
1 - microsoft chose the shittiest wireless chipset made on the planet, the Marvell Avastar 88W8797 Wireless
2 - The drivers were written by drunken morons.
you can easily bork the wireless that require you to delete the device, uninstall the drivers, reboot, re detect and then reinstall the drivers. I was hoping that microsoft had fixed this with windows 10, but nope. it's the exact same crap windows 8 driver that somehow self corrupts it's self on boot up.
It doesn't help that Marvell as a company makes only steaming piles of dog shit. All of their chipsets are complete garbage and any maker that uses them are ran by morons.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Looking at how the update was going to be done, I left the machine on overnight idling.
On the thirtieth, I was notified I was ready, and upgraded. Could not have been easier.
I would have thought that reserving on rollout day would have put me in a long waiting line, and of course there would be a lot of serverhammer (c) on the first few days.
The whole process was flawless, and thank gawdd for that. My original plan was to wait until near the end of the update cycle and see how things were going. Make a decision on staying with 7 or not. But a fellow I was doing some software/hardware troubleshooting with foolishly updated to W10 thinking it would fix his problem, so I needed to know a little about ten before I took remote control of his computer
The results stunned me. Everything just worked. I didn't have to go to the web to figure out simple things like I did in W8. After 4 hours of playing around in it, I was ready to support it. Windows 8 was so nasty, I refused to support it.
Perhaps a Ballmerless company grew some balls here, listened to it's customers, and did it right. Really a tough job taking the steaming pile of shit that was W8, and turning it into something a confirmed Unix like devotee such as myself likes.
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The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
What the fuck are you talking about, son?
Systemd is a product of Red Hat. Red Hat is a company that brings in over a billion dollars per year! "Unpaid volunteer maintainers" my ass! Systemd is a corporate creation by paid corporate developers.
Debian actually isn't much different. Debian's contributors are its users. Many of the major contributors are developers and system administrators who use Debian for paying clients or employers. They aren't "unpaid volunteer maintainers". They're improving Debian because their clients and/or employers paid them to! It isn't as centralized as Red Hat, but there is still big money involved.
As for Ubuntu, I'm sure you've heard of Canonical Ltd. If you haven't, it's the company with hundreds of paid employees who develop Ubuntu. Yet again, we aren't talking about "unpaid volunteer maintainers".
And your "just don't upgrade" attitude is fucking idiotic. Anyone with just a few years of experience in the industry knows how full of shit that idea is. 2019 will be upon us before you know it, at which point some sort of an upgrade will be necessary. You're basically saying, "Keep on using Windows XP and IE 6, they'll be supported for years!", and idea which we know know is retarded.
I've seen a lot of stupid comments in my days here at Slashdot, but your comment is one of the fucking stupidest I've ever seen. It's even stupider than those goddamn "cow goes moo" comments. At least they aren't serious. You're serious, and you're apparently too fucking dumb to realize how wrong you are. That's what makes your situation so much more pathetic.