Seriously.
I have an old Compaq laptop and I went through the Technical Evaluation builds, updates that took hours admittedly, but it functions quite well for me.
Why the vitriol?
I spent many years in the IT field. My standard answer was “It is just another Operating System”.
Sigh.
I don’t know. Works just fine for me, but I’ve been a Mac user for decades and needed a Windows machine just a little while back so I started with Windows 8.1 Pro.
I think it’s just that it’s not Windows 7.
When it was first released all the reviews were favorable. I think the typical path was to upgrade from 7 to 10 skipping 8 (which is what I did). I think 8 sucked but 10 is just fine.
What are the complaints you are hearing, and where are they coming from?
I’m on Windows 10 now, and am very happy with it. I can only assume it’s a hangover from the Windows 8 hate. The sad part was that Windows 8 was actually an excellent operating system, but was just trying to push the envelope too hard, too fast.
If Apple had introduced the exact same interface on the Macintosh, all the tech journalists and Apple fans would have fallen all over themselves praising it and would have proclaimed it the Second Coming.
From what I understand, Microsoft’s engineers went back to Xeroc PARC (the source for both Macintosh and Windows) where they have never stopped developing operating systems. The MS engineers were told by the people who pioneered windowing systems had come to believe that overlapping windows were a Bad Thing, and that they had moved to tiled systems, and taking advantage of fast graphics to quickly jump from screen to screen.
I did the same thing; upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and I’m satisfied with it. I never experienced Windows 8, except for playing with it in stores.
What in the world are you going on about? Windows 10 has received pretty high marks from reviewers and users.
Most of the hate comes from people for whom the upgrade didn’t go smoothly–especially when they find out that there are very few changes that matter and a lot of small niggly things that are screwed up.
Like they fucked up the DPI settings. Why in the world do they think I would want my system fonts to go back to 96 DPI when I have the computer set at 120DPI? Or how they fucked up Network sharing with Linux. Or those fucking white titlebars that you can’t change and make it much harder to use multiple windows on screen as you can’t immediately tell which one is active. (I still can’t believe no one warned me about those here. This place hates changes like that. When Windows 8 came out, the loss of Aero glass was a big deal. Losing transparency is bad, but losing color isn’t?) Or the fact that Internet Connection Sharing broke. Or the fact that it can actually make startup take twice as long, when they advertise how much shorter it is.
Or perhaps it’s the ideas people get about it before they upgrade, like the fact that Microsoft seems to be trying to force people to upgrade, which always makes people suspicious. Or the privacy issues with all the phoning home it does now. Or the removal of certain software people like to use.
Or the one thing they promised but didn’t deliver: Live Tiles on your desktop to replace Gadgets. Okay, maybe that’s just my own pet peeve.
Edit: And, yes, I know there’s a workaround for the title bar color thing. It still forces all titlebars to be the same color, though. Or you have to use the ugly Aero Lite theme. I also didn’t mention forced Automatic Updates, since there’s a way around that, as well.
There was a lot of flak given about the default privacy policies, but that’s about it.
Unless you write for Breitbart, in which case you hate it because of the Built-in Communism
My biggest hesitation is the fact that i would not be able to control when/if updates occur.
As someone mentioned in a previous thread, it’s no fun to be unable to shut the thing down when you are leaving the hotel room for the airport.
Not to mention that they might goof up an upgrade like (as I understand) the one that would not work with certain graphics cards.
I also like aero, but that is more of a niggling detail than a show stopper.
Beyond that, I’m adverse to change for change’s sake and my system works fine for me right now and is customized the way I like it.
This is the reason. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…
Try this little experiment:
This evening, at your place of work, sit down at the desk of a random stranger, or your boss. Change his screensaver to a prettier picture. Move the icons around a bit, so they don’t cover up the picture. Delete the icon for the his most commonly used program, because, as everybody knows, it’s unnecessary–you can easily find it on it by clicking first on the start menu.Change the resolution of the screen. Switch the default printer from the one on his desk to the newer one in a room nearby.
Nowl go home, but leave a nice note for him to find tomorrow morning, telling him that you’ve improved his computer.(mention no details–just tell him it’s better now.)
Obvously, you wouldn’t get fired for doing this, right?
A lot of the hate for Windows 8 was from people who weren’t even users. They tried it once, for a minute in store, then shat their pants and ran away to join the growing throng of other people doing the same. This became an inertial wave of unreasonable and unreasoning criticism that pretty much fed on itself.
Some of that has spilled over to Win10.
NB: I dont think the above describes the entirety of the opposition, but I have seen enough to know I’m not imagining it.
some people just can’t tolerate having their cheese moved.
My hate for Windows 10 is why I’m not a user. If Windows 10 was designed as a strictly better OS than Windows 8, I would applaud Microsoft for their willingness to get people to upgrade by simply giving people no reason not to upgrade.
But Microsoft did not do that. They created an OS which appears to act as adware and spyware, and then tried to force the issue by downloading multiple gigabytes of Windows 10 installer to my computer without my permission, installing nagware on my computer without my permission and it seems finally plan to simply overwrite my current OS without my permission. I should not have to disable “essential” Windows Updates just to stop Microsoft fucking with my computer.
But if Apple did it I bet you’d be applauding their “innovation.”
I have never owned an Apple product.
I looked through every single Windows 10 privacy setting and I don’t think I turned a single one off. If you did, great, but none of them exactly struck me as hardcore spyware. They all seemed to be pretty reasonable: anonymous bug reporting, cloud memory for Cortana, etc.
Certainly nothing near as bad as Microsoft’s amazingly terrible idea they had for the Xbox One with the everwatching Kinect.
It is a good platform so far - in upgrading from Win7 - but there are annoying instabilities (as my recent GQ question highlighted) that even MS (professional support service) seems unable to locate. The changes in some things like recent files and folders seemed without any clear reason tied to the overall improvements.
I really like it. My only complaint is that it doesn’t display JPG’s in the directories properly. Doesn’t look like there’s a fix.
I am not having any problem with this. What is the problem you’re having?
I don’t know who’s bitching about it – I certainly like it.