Windows 10 - My experience so far

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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What I don't like or that annoys the hell out of me:

  1. Unable to shut down cortana process without corrupting actual files

  2. Start menu and program search doesn't work when SSD optimization for cached searches or something is turned on (cant remember precisely which option it is now)

  3. Windows 10 fast boot is mainly because it doesn't load half the libraries, dll's, desktop services and programs till you have logged in

  4. If you fresh install Windows 7 and install no updates, you will find it boots faster than windows 10 after you have installed all your software and drivers (creative suite, rar, zip, 7z, programming tools, games, browsers, visual studio 2013 and 2015 express, wamp, mysql setc)

  5. If you fresh install windows 7 and install no updates you will find it functions faster than windows 10

  6. Locking certain files in windows 10 to prevent data recording and data drip feed of those files send out to various MS urls causes certain programs to not open run https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking and then try opening, spider solitare, it will crash

  7. Modifying hosts to redirect www.bing.com, *.bing.com and the various other urls for phone home to www.google.co.uk doesn't work you now have to do this via your router if possible

  8. Various software installs still don't appear on the start menu after install, you have to go to the task manager end the windows explorer process, wait for it to restart and then you should find it again

  9. Start menu is dynamic from top to bottom but not from left to right with number of columns

  10. Multi screen desktop feature keeps same desktop icons on all desktops

  11. MS Edge runs so fast because it's already partially loaded into RAM even when your not using it, windows 10 is using some of it's components elsewhere

  12. MS Edge process WebGL different from Chrome and FireFox (thanks for that MS! FFS)

  13. New task explorer often fails to even startup when applications crash and often fails to end process trees or processes compared to the older versions that come on win7 and below

  14. File explorer is now well F****UP with a ribbon bar and shot cut keys which I used crazily often are all gone, ALT F N (I now use FreeCommander XE for file browsing and management it's much better)

  15. Various HDs spin up when they are not in use (watching a movie on shitflix cough erm netflix), unable to find out why no scans etc are running

  16. My computer has changed to This PC

  17. Settings menus for tablet users and many text link drill downs to options you never even knew existed

  18. Setting web browser default only sets it for opening web links not html, not htm files and often will ask you which web browser would you like to use when an application tries to execute the web browser thus stuffing Edge in your face with a pair of size 12 Doc Martins with steel toe caps

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What I do like:

  1. It has desktop icons
  2. It has a mouse pointer
  3. It has the software available I need for work
  4. It has the games I like available for it (hopefully not for long and ubuntu/linux/steam/valve can crush Direct X with something non MS)

For the love of god Adobe please release the creative cloud for Ubuntu! (VM or Wine is not an option)...

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The biggest plus in my opinion is that Win10 has a pretty small footprint and cleans up better after itself. How long that will last, remains to be seen, but for the moment, the compromise of sacrificing startup time and performance for partially compressed system files instead of having to use the almost entirely compressed system image for the tablet install of Win8, seems to be a winner.

On Intel machines, I think Win10 is a step back in performance in comparison to a lean and mean Win7 install, but on AMD CPU equipped machines, Win10 seems to perform just a tad better in CPU bound applications. Nothing spectacular, but any improvement is welcomed.

Win10 is not an improvement in usability at all, quite on the contrary. In fact, most tinkerer tools are exactly the same as in Win7, and they even have the Win7-era interface to prove that. I honestly think Win8 was more of a step forward than Win10 is in terms of user interface, even though it was chaotic. The degree of chaos is even bigger in Win10 in my opinion.

What I find astonishing is the number of pretty obvious and serious bugs that are still in Win10, after almost a year of large-scale alpha and beta testing. In it's present form, I would still consider Win10 a beta. The problem with that is that Microsoft will probably patch Win10 bugs like they have patched Windows bugs in recent history: with bad updates and then patches to repair bad updates, leading to superfluous storage waste and loss of performance. We'll see how well they can maintain Win10 though, it's still recent enough to be a little forgiving, but they're definitely slow in patching some serious problems already.

If Microsoft succeeds in keeping the Win10 system footprint low, I think Win10 actually makes sense as a guest OS for entertainment purposes or specific old-skool application purposes, in a virtual machine that is.

One of the big problems rights now is that Virtualbox doesn't really run nicely (anywhere from pretty well to not at all depending on the hardware) in Win10. That is kind of a problem for me, because I supply a BSD Virtualbox appliance with custom software with a product I manufacture and sell, that requires a platform independent advanced software solution that needs to be able to receive data securely from servers. On certain systems, Virtualbox will crash the Win10 host, on other systems, major tweaking of Virtualbox parameters are required to make it play nicely with a Win10 host.

The main issue here is that Microsoft implemented an "opt-out" approach for the Win10 upgrade, instead of an "opt-in" approach. People that just don't care and were using Windows 7 or 8 and were using the Virtualbox appliance without any problem, were automatically upgraded to Win10 (because they don't care), and that's where the problems started. Within 1 month they can roll back, but that isn't the right solution either. I really think Microsoft should have provided more assistance/openness on Win10 towards third party software houses like Oracle, to make the "forced upgrade" go more smoothly. Because once again... this is costing millions upon millions of combined costs of problem solving and interrupted workflows everywhere. It's not as expensive as the XP/Vista/Win7 upgrades (nor as expensive as the Win8 upgrade, because very few companies did the Win8 upgrade lolz), but it's still way too expensive for a serious industrial software solution, especially now that Microsoft wants to become the "king of productivity".

Microsoft has acquired Volometrics, a company specialized in remote metrology, aka spyware and data harvesting, and they have announced that they will be integrating this technology into MS-Office 365, to provide advanced metrics on how users actually use Office, with the aim of improving the productivity features of Office. So that basically means that MS-Office 365 can't be used in a commercial or confidential environment any more. Sticking to older versions of Office (2003, the most used version in companies, doesn't work with Win10 any more, but 2007 and 2010 versions are still out there in great numbers) doesn't help, as we've seen with the "metrics updates" for Windows 7 and 8...

And that's something I just don't understand. Microsoft invests millions into a spyware company to spy upon its customers, whereas it costs nothing to actually ask the customers what they want... the whole concept is bat crazy. When I want to release a new product, I start by asking the potential customers what they want, then I make prototypes, send them out for customer testing, and adapt to the remarks made by the customers. It's not expensive, and it's foolproof. Why hasn't Microsoft even figured that out?

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Windows 10 is the ultimate meme.

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I have encountered various sound driver errors. When I go to plug in my speakers to the headphone jack in the back where the motherboard is the notification that I have plugged in speakers pops up. Once this occurs the popup freezes and will not go away unless I restart the computer. Another problem I have had is when I shutdown my computer everything will turn off EXCEPT the computer itself. I do not know if this is a hardware issue, or software.

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Submit these with their Feedback tool.
My hdd is set never to sleep.
Laptop boots within 5s and I can start working instantly after entering pin. I edited startup programs list and disabled all the rubbish.

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don't forget to disable ipv6 ~ its pretty much impossible to block that traffic... they can come up with all kind of ip's.

also noticed it has ipv4 built in translation so they might have ffffedd us ... anyway.

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Have fun putting your mivonks onto microsofts' servers'

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Farscape slang :)

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It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't care about it's customers, they are taking the route of the NSA in capturing everything and dissecting it, but unlike the NSA they will use that information to turn a profit and rat you out given the chance, what MS wants Windows to be is Skynet (shameless plug since I just watched Terminator Genesis last weekend...lol) but unfortunately Windows will never attain that stature......Google on the other hand. :)

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Well this is what happens when you fire half of the bug testing team.

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How much you want to bet a mod will yell at me for that?

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Maybe ? They will not bother to google it. :)

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Sounds like the new Vista to me... I will not be part of it, nope nope.

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to make it short: PLS KHRONOS! At least for once in your life be the predominant one! Make the world (gaming community) feel your presence!

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me too, although my issue is that my microphone won't function at all with my onboard sound card anymore. audio playback is fine. i'm a loner and hardly use my microphone though so it's not an issue for me right now and everything else works fine with my setup.

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My experience with windows 10 is the same as windows 8. Annoying.