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Windows 10?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by Joe, Jun 13, 2016.

  1. Joe

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    Anybody have any thoughts about Win10? I'm quite happy with Win7 on my desktop, but I read unless you disable automatic updates, one morning you might wake to find Win10 was automatically installed.

    Just looking for opinions on Win10. Should I?

    Thx.
     
  2. shifter

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    if you have 7, probably.

    if you have 8, no need.

    I have 10 on both of my laptops and had no issues.
     
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    It's pretty much built for touchscreen computers.

    It still works well without, but it's touchscreen friendly. If you don't have a touchscreen, I don't think you'll be missing much by sticking with windows 7. You may eventually run into driver issues though.

    At least that's my take.
     
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    No touchscreen. Just a desktop box.
     
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    Go for it. 8 was ugh. 8.1 was a little better. 10 is what should have been the logical progression. I use 8.1 and 10 at work on a surface pro and now that on 10 it feels right. And I rarely use the touch features. It's my daily driver now.
     
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    I use it at work both on a Surface Pro and a VM on my Mac, works great, really stable.
     
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    Windows 8 drives me crazy. Doesn't feel intuitive at all but alas my current project requires the development environment to be win 8.
     
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    I like it better than Windows 8 in terms of usability, and having a real Start menu back is great. But, it doesn't play nice with all graphics cards. I have an Alienware gaming rig, and Windows 10 is fairly stable... unless I'm trying to play games, which results in a crash about once a week. It's totally fine when doing any sort of real work, but when I start to push my graphics card, Windows 10 seems to freak out.
     
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    I bit the bullet and downloaded it on Tuesday. My only bitch so far, is that every time I open one of my non-microsoft programs, it asks me for permission to install this "app". Silly, it's a program. I changed the default to never alert me even though MS says it is not recommended. Any thoughts on leaving the default as "never"?
     
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    Windows 7 was great and didn't want to change when I bought 2 new computers. Had the option of epithet 7 or 10 and bought 10. I was sooo bummed at first only because I didn't really understand it. After a few weeks I got it. No problem now at all. Have been working with it now for 8 months I think on desktop and laptop and it's great with no issues. Only issues I have are user errors!
     

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