Why do so many people hate Windows 10?

[MarioMasta64]

one word: telemetry

 

[netovsk]

Things I didn't like about it:

It's really obsessed with collecting your personal info and sending it to MS.

When I updated he just swapped the search bar for cortana, without the option to type my search terms again. I rolled back and disabled auto update.

Things I liked about it:

Ran like a charm on my 8 year old low-end netbook. Running window XP on a 1995 PC would be unimaginable back then.

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

You know, this thread has interesting timing. I just updated to the Creator's Update today, and so far I'm happy with it. Various performance tweaks, including a Game Mode embedded right into the OS. Managed to squeeze another frame or two out of my heavily modded Skyrim.
As I've stated previously, I don't really give a fuck if MS knows my choice in porn (hint, it's furry), and save for OneDrive, I tend to use a decent number of their "always on" UWP apps, like the Xbox app. The level of (near) effortless integration is perfect for me... Though I will admit I could never get Cortana to push notifications between my Android and my PC for some reason. Other than that, extremely minimal issues and the small amount of BSODs I've had (which are the fewest I've ever had on an MS platform, mind you) are a testament to the stability present in 10 versus its older brothers, and were also my own fault >.> . 10 is lighter, faster and stronger than any other Windows before it, and is the best experience I've ever had with the platform, and I've been using it since 3.1.

 

[Deleted User]

Before the creators update I had lots of shit turned off like telemetry, super fetch and had the .NET framework 3.5 fix from services. Now I update and all my changes are reversed, Edge is my default browser, new apps have been pinned to my taskbar. Cortana now appears and gives me notifications when I previously had just a search bar. all without my consent.

TLDR It's not a bad operating system, it's just it reversed changes and forced shit apps on you instead.

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

Before the creators update I had lots of shit turned off like telemetry, super fetch and had the .NET framework 3.5 fix from services. Now I update and all my changes are reversed, Edge is my default browser, new apps have been pinned to my taskbar all without my consent.

TLDR It's not a bad operating system, it's just it reversed changes and forced shit apps on you instead.

Weird that people kept on saying that the default browser got reset, mine stayed on Firefox. Other than that, only common filetypes had their defaults reverted for me, such as a .BMP or .MP3. More uncommon stuff like .BIN files stayed on HxD, for example. But that takes just a couple of seconds to change back. I guess the update was extensive enough that it had to be treated partially like a regular upgrade/install.

 

[MarioMasta64]

windows 10 enterprise would be the best version as it disables telemetry pretty much completely and runs alot better (tho its mostly used for i.t.)

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

windows 10 enterprise would be the best version as it disables telemetry pretty much completely and runs alot better (tho its mostly used for i.t.)

Business and server OS versions of Windows typically see no improvement in resource management or performance. It's more cost effective for the end user to manually disable stuff they don't want in a standard Windows version. Well, unless you're pirating the OS, then money isn't a factor. But still.

 

[VinsCool]

Before the creators update I had lots of shit turned off like telemetry, super fetch and had the .NET framework 3.5 fix from services. Now I update and all my changes are reversed, Edge is my default browser, new apps have been pinned to my taskbar. Cortana now appears and gives me notifications when I previously had just a search bar. all without my consent.

The anniversary update did that to me, but that only took 30 seconds to fix.

 

[MarioMasta64]

Business and server OS versions of Windows typically see no improvement in resource management or performance. It's more cost effective for the end user to manually disable stuff they don't want in a standard Windows version. Well, unless you're pirating the OS, then money isn't a factor. But still.

enterprise is nethier business or server. its not even sold on the micosoft site. its only sold through msdn and mostly used for i.t. professionals

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

enterprise is nethier business or server. its not even sold on the micosoft site. its only sold through msdn and mostly used for i.t. professionals

You might see a small uptick on that (I misread your original post, apologies), but I wouldn't put it past the OS to have potential issues doing stuff consumer-level versions of the same OS take for granted, due to increased security. Or, who knows, I could be totally wrong.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Besides the ethical, technical, and telemetry stuff, I just think it's window interface is ugly when compared to Linux Mint's Mint-X theme and have found that I prefer the Cinnamon desktop and would even go as far to say that it (ironically enough in my own opinion) unquestionably triumphs over every other.
For the ethical and telemetry stuff this video by Joe Collins really opened my eyes to the fact that the allocations of Windows 10 being hardened spyware where true and are still true to this day.

 

[Bladexdsl]

It's really obsessed with collecting your personal info and sending it to MS.

you can turn ALL this off before while 1st installing.

 

[netovsk]

you can turn ALL this off before while 1st installing.

Never installed it so I wouldn't know.

My 1st contact with W10 was a free upgrade from Win7.
My 2nd one was pre-installed with new laptop.

Good to know.

 

[Flashed]

I love Windows 10

 

[DinohScene]

Only actual thing I hate about 10 is the upgrade method.
It's stupid, pointless and messes up drivers.

 

[Pleng]

The only thing I dislike about the Windows Update method is the fact that updates are installed when shutting down the computer. We occasionally have power outages here, and I have purchased a UPS to protect against such outages. If we have a power outage at the same time some updates need to be installed, what happens then? I just have to watch the updates being applied until the UPS runs out, all the time the computer stares at me and smugly tells me "Do not turn off the power while updates are being applied"...

 

[gnmmarechal]

First of all - Spyware. Second, Windows 10 Home has little control over updates. Thankfully, I only have Home on one device, and both my Surface and my desktop have either Pro or Education. I only use Windows for gaming, tbh. Working on a Linux system just feels right to me.

 

[AbyssalMonkey]

I haven't upgraded from 7 for various reasons, mostly due to games. With the advent of the update, various places had reported games not running as well compared to 7, so I'm gonna stick to my 7 install for a few years until both the programmers get used to the new directories and hackers sink their teeth into it to make it dance. I don't really care about other things, if windows tries to send data off and I can't software disable it, I'll just firewall my router.

The other issue I have is compatability (again due to games), most older games that were poorly designed in the first place just break with windows 10 (in my case, specifically referring to visual novels). I see zero reason to update to take away whatever I can do now.

Finally, the bottom line still stands, Windows 7 still has 50% market share. Any games developer would be insane to not optimize for it. Directx12 can try and push Windows 10 as much as it pleases, but until Windows 7 starts to topple, no game is going to enforce it. We currently have a mutual reinforcing structure and it probably won't change any time soon.

 

[deSSy2724]

1. Windows 10 Spying Edition (the only edition)
2. Forced Updates (especially at the beginning)
3. Messed up settings/control panel
4. For some, how Win 10 handles DNS-es (ask all major VPN providers)

 

[mariusrhpsd]

nvm