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IS IT WORTH UPGRADING TO WINDOWS 10?
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GreatRedSpirit
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CloseI upgraded to Win10 and while I don't have any performance issues the way it works annoys me. Barring the awful privacy stuff and MS trying to leech my bandwidth for updates it'll also aggressively try to keep memory free and available. I was sorting pictures a while back and had a ton open (spoilers I always have a bajillion things open, my browser tabs are a fucking forest) until Win10 decided that my free memory was running a bit too low and decided to close all instances of the Photo app. It's done similar things with the calculator app (which doesn't open with focus correctly half the time via my keyboard shortcut) and it annoys me so much I changed the default image viewer back to the Win7 standard one.
There's also forced restarts on automatic updates, I'd used to go a month with Windows waiting to restart to install them because I never close anything and don't want to reopen shit. Now it'll force the restart instead of accepting postponements for forever / thrown in a corner where I'll never see it. There's file association shit too, opening a music track in MP3Tag will prompt the select program to open file dialog (which was eventually fixed in Win10 at least). I also want Paint.net to be my right click->edit program like in Win7 but changing that requires registry fuckery.
e: Turns out the forced restarts is wrong, thanks for TehGuy for correcting me a few posts below /e:
Also my wireless keyboard finally dying after low battery warnings for eight months hardlocked my computer yseterday. Dunno if it's due to Win10 or if Win7 would've shit itself too but I'll blame it all the same (I actually thought it was due to the Edge browser hanging on loading youtube videos but I didn't realize my keyboard was dead until later).
tl;dr win10 is not recommended. Half the reason I updated was for multiple desktops and I barely use it right now. Too much headache not enough benefit, but at least the fucking search works now.
e: Turns out the forced restarts is wrong, thanks for TehGuy for correcting me a few posts below /e:
Also my wireless keyboard finally dying after low battery warnings for eight months hardlocked my computer yseterday. Dunno if it's due to Win10 or if Win7 would've shit itself too but I'll blame it all the same (I actually thought it was due to the Edge browser hanging on loading youtube videos but I didn't realize my keyboard was dead until later).
tl;dr win10 is not recommended. Half the reason I updated was for multiple desktops and I barely use it right now. Too much headache not enough benefit, but at least the fucking search works now.
I upgraded some time ago and I'm fine with it. I like the virtual desktops because I can now easily separate my work stuff from RM stuff and bounce between them :) After I upgraded, I used to have weird things happen like the volume randomly dropping and kernel crashes that trigger sudden reboots, but I think it's stopped happening after I nuked old system files with a refresh install and updating drivers.
(thankfully I never had RM open prior to the random reboots, or my game probably would've gotten corrupted! >_>)
fwiw, you can stop it from doing that under Windows Update > Advanced options. I'm not sure how long the install can be postponed though
(thankfully I never had RM open prior to the random reboots, or my game probably would've gotten corrupted! >_>)
author=GreatRedSpirit
There's also forced restarts on automatic updates,
fwiw, you can stop it from doing that under Windows Update > Advanced options. I'm not sure how long the install can be postponed though
Yeah, I use that but if it hits the scheduled time then it'll reboot without user input. I think you can set it on a day of the week but you can't indefinitely postpone it like in prior Windows.
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I updated from Windows 8.1 to 10 and I have no real issue with it (but I also had no issue with 8.1, either).
The auto-update is a fucking atrocious idea, especially since I turn off my laptop every night and would have no issue with it processing the update then. I've had blue screens of death twice now, and both times I restarted an update installed itself. I'm not sure if there is a real correlation, there, but it sure looked like it.
There are also a couple of small things about Win10; my brightness controls don't work on my laptop (I think this is a Radeon driver issue, though) but I always keep it set at the same thing, anyway. It does get really dark sometimes and requires a restart- this would be a major problem if it hadn't happened only twice in the several months I've had 10. Also, it doesn't seem to know how to autoplay USB keys, but the file manager works just fine.
Overall, I'd suggest waiting until they iron the larger bugs out. My desktop is so old that it still uses XP, which I prefer to 10, but 10 is the waaaaave of the future.
Honestly, though, it's fucking Windows: none of them are perfect, and with a few notably terrible exceptions, they all work reasonably well if you know how to work around the problems.
The auto-update is a fucking atrocious idea, especially since I turn off my laptop every night and would have no issue with it processing the update then. I've had blue screens of death twice now, and both times I restarted an update installed itself. I'm not sure if there is a real correlation, there, but it sure looked like it.
There are also a couple of small things about Win10; my brightness controls don't work on my laptop (I think this is a Radeon driver issue, though) but I always keep it set at the same thing, anyway. It does get really dark sometimes and requires a restart- this would be a major problem if it hadn't happened only twice in the several months I've had 10. Also, it doesn't seem to know how to autoplay USB keys, but the file manager works just fine.
Overall, I'd suggest waiting until they iron the larger bugs out. My desktop is so old that it still uses XP, which I prefer to 10, but 10 is the waaaaave of the future.
Honestly, though, it's fucking Windows: none of them are perfect, and with a few notably terrible exceptions, they all work reasonably well if you know how to work around the problems.
Made the switch. Here's my verdict.
It's okay. Good enough for me to not go back. However, there is a ton of what I call "clogware". That is, software that serves to bottleneck performance because it was almost like the programmers were under a deadline.
Example: you have hybrid restart. Someone did the math though, and sometimes it works better without. Likewise for automatic memory, it's faster to let the system handle it. Finally, all open icons lagged horribly until I disable cortana. After I did all of that, it was smooth, quiet, and cool. I don't want gadgets or gimmicks. I want a fast, quiet computer that doesn't burn up when playing games.
It's okay. Good enough for me to not go back. However, there is a ton of what I call "clogware". That is, software that serves to bottleneck performance because it was almost like the programmers were under a deadline.
Example: you have hybrid restart. Someone did the math though, and sometimes it works better without. Likewise for automatic memory, it's faster to let the system handle it. Finally, all open icons lagged horribly until I disable cortana. After I did all of that, it was smooth, quiet, and cool. I don't want gadgets or gimmicks. I want a fast, quiet computer that doesn't burn up when playing games.
I suggested to someone who has experiencing lag in fullscreen RM2k3 in Windows 8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10. And he did (:O). And it seemed to work (:O!!)
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Hero's Realm: Worth Upgrading to Windows 10 For
author=GreatRedSpirit
Yeah, I use that but if it hits the scheduled time then it'll reboot without user input. I think you can set it on a day of the week but you can't indefinitely postpone it like in prior Windows.
You sort of can; it keeps asking me if I want to postpone considering I still have stuff running at that time.
I use it to tell me how many weeks I've left my PC on >->
EDIT: To clarify: I have to keep manually postponing the update as far as I can every time it asks
Huh, good to know! I based what I said after the update to Windows 10 closing some work I left open when the schedules update happened and assumed the updates inside of W10 would do the same. Next update I'll have to try it out for myself (saving first just in case) because I do the same thing as you. (I've gotten to where the next month's updates were available while I was still waiting to restart to finish install the current month's updates once or twice)
Made the switch BACK. I put up with stripping the new features to get programs to run faster. And indeed it did run faster on rpgmaker games. But then I was trying to watch a Korean drama online, and it froze horribly. Pretty much the last straw. I wanted something that didn't feel like a downgrade. It wasn't there yet.
