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Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10?
Plenty of users are skeptical about upgrading to Windows 10. While they understand that Microsoft's newest desktop operating system comes with a range of interesting features, they are paranoid about the repeated update fiascos that have spoiled the experience for many users. Reader Quantus347 writes: Whenever I think of Windows 10 these days I, like so many others out there, immediately feel a swell of rage over the heavy-handed way the "upgrade" has been forced on me and so many others. I had to downgrade one of my computers that installed windows 10 over a weekend I was away, and as a result, I have been fending off the update ever since. I find myself wondering if Windows 10 is actually that bad. With the end of the "free" upgrade period quickly coming to an end, my fiscally conservative side is starting to overwhelm my fear and distrust of all things new, and I'm wondering if it's time to take the leap. I've been burned too many times for being an early adopter of something that proved to be an underdeveloped product, but Windows 10 has been around for long enough that I'm wondering if it might have it's kinks worked out.
So I ask you, Slashdot, what are your experiences with Windows 10 itself, aside from the auto-upgrade nonsense? How does it measure up to its predecessors, and is it a worthwhile OS in its own right?
So I ask you, Slashdot, what are your experiences with Windows 10 itself, aside from the auto-upgrade nonsense? How does it measure up to its predecessors, and is it a worthwhile OS in its own right?
Prepare for chicken little "spyware" comments when describing simple telemetry. Prepare for "concerns" that you can't inspect the telemetry due to the use of *gasp* secured connections.
Oh, and prepare for adware comments because they might dare suggest an app you might install from the store.
In fact, prepare for nothing useful. Only FUD.
Appdows 10 is the ONLY apperating app that lets you app apps while apping other apps, unlike LUDDITE systems like Windows 7!
Apps!
You are a child playing games. Some of us are adults and earn our living with computers. None of my CAD programs worked after Win10 forced itself onto the work machines. The UI *is* a mess, I don't understand this need among the software-types to re-organize stuff all the time. If your car magically re-organized its layout every few months, wouldn't you be tired of it as well?
Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Shill, Or a distinct case of stockholm syndrome. Linux is way more stable than windows on my laptop, for any purpose. I have more games than I have time to play on steam on Linux. I have more software for things i need, and they're all an apt-get and 10 second install away, with NO BLOAT. No pesky flash installer trying to get me to convert to mormonism or whatever it does these days with it's adware install. Ubuntu exposes the features you need and has been stable for years. the last few releases have been BORING and that's a GOOD thing. Nothing's changed.