Windows 10 owners, whats your opinion?
So, to all of you that have upgraded to Windows 10, what's your opinion on it? Do you find that things that have been working fine before don't work so well in Windows 10? Are there not that many major problems and it's just whatever? Let me know your experiences.
l've been reluctant to download Windows 10 for a while just cause of all my paranoia of what will happen if this and that doesn't work, or what if it wipes my hard drive (currently backing up ~100 GB of stuff) l'd just like everyone's take on it if possible.
l've heard Windows 10 has a lot of minor bugs, but it's just that, minor. Should l play it safe and upgrade later after they have patched, fixed, and added more compatibility support for drivers/programs, or whatever? Or is it completely fine to upgrade now and there's nothing to worry about? l look all over the internet and l'm seeing such two sides of people saying it works great and it's cool, to those saying they are having some major issues, or something isn't working properly.
Thank you!
(Also, is there anything l should do before upgrading if l do? l've never built a computer before, nor have l ever upgraded OS. Do l have to re-install all my programs or something? Will it actually wipe my hard drive for some reason? Anything to consider as precautionary measures?)
Edit: l decided to go for it, and GODDAMN IT USES A LOT OF MEMORY. l lost 2 GB of RAM from just nothing but system processes.
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@edatron: [url=http://i.imgur.com/hdeJVun.png]Yep, no problems with right clicking.[/url] l thought this was a really strange bug for people to have, but apparently it's a thing since a whole thread was made about it on Basil.
Haven't found anything wrong with Windows 10 except for the extreme memory usage.
Still rocking Windows 7 with a Windows 8.1 style theme.
[quote=quackoutloud]l can right click stuff in and out of desktop, and the UI is great.[/quote]
So you can actually right-click on files or folders in and out of your desktop? It's good that you didn't get that minor bug. That's the problem I'm having; files and folders are the only things I can't right-click. Programs I can right-click no problem.
So l decided to just upgrade it and 'test the waters' for a while since you have a month to revert back if you choose so. All of my files were still there (and programs) and so far everything seems normal with no bugs. l can right click stuff in and out of desktop, and the UI is great. l like that you can search Cortana pretty vague stuff and it will bring things up what you were probably looking for (instead of having to search for exact names or phrases).
My only and biggest complaint with Windows 10 is how much memory and CPU it consumes while left with nothing open. Cortana uses 60MB - 90MB regularly, AntiMalware Service exe (Microsoft Defender; the built in AV program that you can't fully disable) uses 80MB - 100MB regularly, System uses ~90MB regularly, and Service Host Local Network whatever uses like 60MB regularly too (and also OneDrive too, but l closed it so it didn't run anymore).
That is over 2GB of RAM permanently lost just whenever l do anything, and if l so as simply have Chrome open with Basilmarket writing this post right now, my fan will always go off (first stage so not that loud) but it's really ridiculous that essentially, Windows 10 has turned my 6GB RAM laptop into a 4GB RAM laptop just by existing.
l have no problems with Windows 10 otherwise, and literally no major bugs except for a graphical bug on the start menu. l hope they allow us to disable these built in programs without going in the Registry, or do some kind of memory optimization.
I like it. The Windows 10 UI looks much better than previous OS versions. Multi-desktops is pretty useful. Upgrading from 8.1 to 10 was nearly a seamless transition as all my programs and files were ported over just fine and I didn't need to re-install anything. The only compatibility quirks I had were with a couple of programs: Comodo Firewall and Sandboxie. Media Player Classic also had a couple minor bugs but nothing program breaking. And as a gamer, I'm really looking forward to the upcoming games with DirectX 12 support.
I'm annoyed at the fact that I can't right-click anything on my desktop or within my computer. If I right-click something on the internet, it works. Also, the Windows Update window doesn't even load, so I can't even check if there's any new update to fix the minor bugs.
[quote=maoden]where can i founds the option?
kek eff you for that. looks like this is the downfall for windows at last.
i never would have guessed it would happen with the release of windows 10.
my prediction was eventually windows and directx source code would be leaked in such a way that all windows programs and games would run natively on linux kek.
that woulda been glorious[/quote]
Leaking DirectX source code would be relatively pointless. D3D implementations (aside from the debug software renderer) are written by hardware vendors for their specific GPU, and are also very Windows-specific. The API is so well documented that anyone who really wants to write his own DirectX implementation should be able to do that by just reading the documentation. Direct3D isn't even that big. It's just some structures and commands to put triangles on the screen. The other APIs (sound, input) aren't exactly complex either.
Even if the source code is leaked, it would be easier to just write an implementation from scratch than porting Windows distinct drivers to Linux. Same goes for a substantial amount of Windows' source code.
Wine already has DirectX OpenGL implementation. http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectXStatus
[quote=applause]Check the option to compensate for rotational velocidensity disturbances.[/quote]
where can i founds the option?
kek eff you for that. looks like this is the downfall for windows at last.
i never would have guessed it would happen with the release of windows 10.
my prediction was eventually windows and directx source code would be leaked in such a way that all windows programs and games would run natively on linux kek.
that woulda been glorious
P@cket sniff while changing settings and this is the result.
http://i.imgur.com/6BTH43W.gif
They had 8 years to make a flat UI with near classic levels of consistency and instead wasted it on gimmicks, botnet, and still unironically using Vista icons in the control panel.
Start menu is useless, and is separate from search. Font rendering is horrible, worse that usual (there's no subpixel text rendering, I even tried to configure ClearType. In some areas, anti-aliasing is done in grayscale instead of RGB.) Tons of fast Win32 programs were replaced with slow Metro apps (calculator, photo viewer - available in LTSB Enterprise.) Design is inconsistent and messy as all hell. Telemetry garbage, home calls, explorer.exe connects to MS servers every now and then. Rather high CPU usage while auto colorization is on. I lasted a day before switching back to Debian in disgust.
[quote=maoden]has anyone else seen the disk usage at 100%, i guess it's doing a bad calculation because i didn't notice any frozen issue.[/quote]
Check the option to compensate for rotational velocidensity disturbances.
has anyone else seen the disk usage at 100%, i guess it's doing a bad calculation because i didn't notice any frozen issue.
Im gonna wait a couple months for mine, seems like some people with potato computers have a lot of problems with Windows10 - and I have a potato PC.
Hopefully by then Microsoft will finish fixing the OS enough
I actually really enjoyed 8.1 but upgraded anyway. It's just about the same except my boot time went down about 10-20 seconds. Haven't had any problems yet all games working fine. However I might get somewhat annoyed when they start pushing out updates.
Never really looked at all the new things.
I barely even use the start menu.
I would wait. I upgraded a few days ago, and at first it was great. But then my wifi kept going "limited" every 5 minutes, while it worked fine on my windows 7 laptop and mobile devices.
Also half the time when trying to switch networks, it would show that no networks are available, then suddenly they would show up a min or two later. I eventually googled the problem, and found that reverting back fixes the problem.
So, I went back to windows 8.1, and everything is back to normal. Otherwise I think windows 10 is great, just need to fix a few bugs.
[url=http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/]That Windows 10's a bloody spy![/url]
i'm just glad that i no longer have that annyoing start screen.
I rate windows 10 a 10/10