How are you finding Windows 10 so far?

[Taleweaver]

I'm amazed I'm one of the few voters of 'mediocre'. And incidentally, I'm just busy upgrading a windows 7 laptop to 10 (because why not?).

Yes, if you're looking directly at the OS itself, 7 looks nicer. And if 10 is faster, it's only noticeable if you're holding a stopwatch (this may differ if you're running a low-end rig). But aside from a weird color issue which solved itself (most likely through updates), I've had zero problems with it. And that's saying something: I'm using 7 at work and 10 at home and can barely tell them apart (the fact that I'm using classicshell on 10 may help in this aspect). Sure, it has a shitload of features I could care less about or which I downright disable (like all the privacy-stuff), but I'd rather have my PC park run a single OS rather than a mixture.

And if you think that's a pretty weak argument, consider the reasons why some people damn every other windows to hell:

-Millennium: crashes more programs than that it actually runs them
-Vista: bane of the devil because it has driver and security issues
-8: the tiles are horrible!
-10: privacy issues

Notice the trend? I'm not saying it's all negligible, but come on...it's not like the reason people give microsoft hell each time (and each time as much if not more, if you ask me) gets worse every time they release another window. Where will this trend goes to? "windows 11 a colossal failure because the default desktop background is ugly"..."some under-average PC's boot a couple milliseconds slower"..."it's not as good as we dreamed it would be on our virtual 3D wearable smartwatch (even though we have no clue how to improve it)"


On the other hand: the whole "it's pretty much the same" is meh for the very same reason. MS got pretty stagnant after 7. Like their whole idea to merge smartphones, pc's, tablets and game consoles was something that all that there ambitions really were (and nonetheless failing even that, if you want to be critic about some of their UI designs).

 

[colt05]

I just completely formatted my HDD and reinstalled Win 7 from a USB.

oh

 

[gudenau]

My only problems have been me being stupid.

 

[PityOnU]

Windows 10 represents a huge strategy shift for Microsoft, and so far, the results (at least for me) are total crap. Windows is no longer a reliable enterprise OS, and has been "consumerized" in a major way. There has also been a distinct lack of quality control from Microsoft. From my personal experience:

• Initial .iso distributions of Windows lacked a 64-bit EFI bootloader. For no reason. Was later fixed, but not until after I bricked my laptop trying to force it to boot what was essentially a broken boot image.
• Updating the new "service pack" bundles (or whatever they call the big feature roll-outs now) is equivalent to doing a full OS upgrade, and comes with all of the negatives associated with that. One of these was breaking many of the shortcuts on my start menu. For no reason. "Don't worry. All your files are exactly where you left them." What the fuck!? Whose idea was it to put that!?
• Regarding the above, this now happens every 4-6 months instead of every handful of years. Looks like I need to completely reinstall Windows on my PC 3 times a year now. Great!
• Installing updates reinstalls the default Microsoft Metro apps (which are difficult to remove in the first place), and reassociates them with all their default file types. I just love having to fuck around to get VLC working again after each update.
• Quick Access folders are duplicated in two places in the File Explorer UI. For no reason. Maybe just to take up space and be a complete pain in the ass? Also, if you remove them with registry hacks they get added back in at seemingly random intervals. Also, as was previously a problem, breadcrumbs don't work in your personal folders, so enjoy trying to figure out how to move one folder up from "My Music".
• Recent Windows 10 .iso images from Microsoft have come with fucked up ACL's on some important system services. The result of which is that my laptop cannot read its own power management settings from the registry. Fucking amazing.
• Repeated crashing of my graphics driver in Firefox. Not sure if the fault is with Microsoft, Mozilla, or AMD, but it was never a problem before. The issue is so widespread on Windows 10 that Firefox automatically disables hardware acceleration on some cards now. So now I get 86% CPU usage when streaming a YouTube video (I have an i7)

I'm getting angry just typing this, and this isn't even all of the problems I've encountered so far. WIndows 10 has been a glorious fuck up in so many ways. The annoying thing is, though, people love it. So I guess I'm just crazy or something.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Windows 10 represents a huge strategy shift for Microsoft, and so far, the results (at least for me) are total crap. Windows is no longer a reliable enterprise OS, and has been "consumerized" in a major way. There has also been a distinct lack of quality control from Microsoft. From my personal experience:

• Initial .iso distributions of Windows lacked a 64-bit EFI bootloader. For no reason. Was later fixed, but not until after I bricked my laptop trying to force it to boot what was essentially a broken boot image.
• Updating the new "service pack" bundles (or whatever they call the big feature roll-outs now) is equivalent to doing a full OS upgrade, and comes with all of the negatives associated with that. One of these was breaking many of the shortcuts on my start menu. For no reason. "Don't worry. All your files are exactly where you left them." What the fuck!? Whose idea was it to put that!?
• Regarding the above, this now happens every 4-6 months instead of every handful of years. Looks like I need to completely reinstall Windows on my PC 3 times a year now. Great!
• Installing updates reinstalls the default Microsoft Metro apps (which are difficult to remove in the first place), and reassociates them with all their default file types. I just love having to fuck around to get VLC working again after each update.
• Quick Access folders are duplicated in two places in the File Explorer UI. For no reason. Maybe just to take up space and be a complete pain in the ass? Also, if you remove them with registry hacks they get added back in at seemingly random intervals. Also, as was previously a problem, breadcrumbs don't work in your personal folders, so enjoy trying to figure out how to move one folder up from "My Music".
• Recent Windows 10 .iso images from Microsoft have come with fucked up ACL's on some important system services. The result of which is that my laptop cannot read its own power management settings from the registry. Fucking amazing.
• Repeated crashing of my graphics driver in Firefox. Not sure if the fault is with Microsoft, Mozilla, or AMD, but it was never a problem before. The issue is so widespread on Windows 10 that Firefox automatically disables hardware acceleration on some cards now. So now I get 86% CPU usage when streaming a YouTube video (I have an i7)

I'm getting angry just typing this, and this isn't even all of the problems I've encountered so far. WIndows 10 has been a glorious fuck up in so many ways. The annoying thing is, though, people love it. So I guess I'm just crazy or something.

I wholeheartedly agree with you but due to already customising Windows 10 with my files, programs, icons, bookmarks and so on plus that it runs better with 10 than 7 is the reason I've decided to stuck with it. And admittedly, for the time being it's running perfectly fine except for that time that a Windows Update took equally as long as installing a Windows OS from scratch.

 

[XDel]

As an old school Atari and Amiga user, I have always hated Windows and Mac, I mean after all, Atari and Amiga were doing things that other software and hardware developers didn't catch on to until the past 15 years for the most part.
That being said I know Windows 8 was a re-write, and that 10 expands upon that theme. With that in mind I hated 8 as it was buggy just as every other release of Windows is, but 10 seems to have fixed it for the most part (mind you some of the ancient Windows bugs still exist to this day).

One thing I did was hook up a mini PC to my TV then swtich Windows over to Tablet mode. I have been experimenting with this lay out as I intend to purchase an Intel Compute Stick and like to do game development as well as game from the lazy chair. That being said, for those who prefer a joystick (unlike me), there is free software to control metro with a 360 Joystick too!

 

[Deleted-236924]

Everything has been better than on previous OSes.

 

[GreatCrippler]

Day to day use: 10 > 7 > 8.1

Gaming: 7 > 8.1 > 10 (I imagine this will change with time)

Overall, fine. I have done a lot of upgrades for people. (Freelance Tech here) When it works, it works well... When it craps out, it craps out in spectacular fashion. I usually suggest people who are casual computer users have someone upgrade it for them. Otherwise, it's fine.