Kind of OT: Windows 10 opinions

[dustinbagby]

I recently purchased my new laptop, and it came loaded with Windows 10. Turns out, Windows 10 is terrible (IMO).

What do you guys think?

[pknaz]

Re: Kind of OT: Windows 10 opinions

Why do you think it is terrible? What don't you like about it?

[turn2]

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Funny, I just bought my first Windows machine for home use ever. It is a Lenovo laptop w/Windows 10. I have used Windows XP then 7 Pro at work for years, but I've been a Mac guy forever. So far I tend to agree with the OP.

[generic]

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I haven't used it yet, but being in IT, I did look at a lot of the changes. Out of the box, I might not like it either, but after tinkering with it, it would probably be okay. Next computer I build, I'll probably used Win 7 again. I don't care for the AI acting OS, personal assistant or whatever you want to call it. I'm old school enough where a mouse and keyboard is my interaction with my computer, and I don't want anything else.

[Paul K.]

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My wife (age 75!) also just got a new laptop (Dell) loaded with Windows 10 and she likes it just fine (she was used to Windows XP, BTW).
Paul

I recently purchased my new laptop, and it came loaded with Windows 10. Turns out, Windows 10 is terrible (IMO).

What do you guys think?

[kevintomb]

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At first was not sure. Not that I have had it a few months, I really do like 10.

My issue is with Edge, the browser. Adding 10 to a 2 year old comp that originally had 7, somehow edge just never seemed to gel.

I went back to Chrome, far better and just seems to work as expected.

[Paul Carmody]

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I like it just fine. Acts like 7, but takes the good stuff from 8 (and tosses away the parts about 8 that p1ssed people off).

[billfitzmaurice]

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Aside from having to get used to different menu locations I haven't had any problem with W10.

[dustinbagby]

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My first problem came when I was out of town this weekend and wanted to watch a DVD since I had no internet. Drove 30 minutes to town to rent some redbox flicks, went back to the cabin, popped one in and BAM! Presented with two options - 1. Search store for DVD media player 2. 'Do Nothing.'

Despite it being brand spanking new, it has no media player that supports DVD format, even though it has a DVD drive.

The menus are set up terribly. The Control panel was a very simple way to access most of your computers settings. Now you have to dig around to find each little thing here and there. Despite my laptop being non touch screen, it still presents me with tons of options all over the place to improve functionality when my laptop is being used as a tablet...oops. It also took me a half hour to figure out how to change my pointer speed.

I will use it more over the next few weeks, but it seems on the surface the are trying to cram so much crap into it that you just have to work around.

[generic]

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My first problem came when I was out of town this weekend and wanted to watch a DVD since I had no internet. Drove 30 minutes to town to rent some redbox flicks, went back to the cabin, popped one in and BAM! Presented with two options - 1. Search store for DVD media player 2. 'Do Nothing.'

Despite it being brand spanking new, it has no media player that supports DVD format, even though it has a DVD drive.

The menus are set up terribly. The Control panel was a very simple way to access most of your computers settings. Now you have to dig around to find each little thing here and there. Despite my laptop being non touch screen, it still presents me with tons of options all over the place to improve functionality when my laptop is being used as a tablet...oops. It also took me a half hour to figure out how to change my pointer speed.

I will use it more over the next few weeks, but it seems on the surface the are trying to cram so much crap into it that you just have to work around.

I think that change was made in Win8. They added bluray playback support and ditched DVD. Microsoft has never been able to a good out of the box media player. They fail so hard in that area. Easy enough to find a free DVD player, but it's beyond dumb that Windows 08/10 doesn't just freaking play them.

[billfitzmaurice]

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Despite it being brand spanking new, it has no media player that supports DVD format, even though it has a DVD drive.

Mine does. Go to 'All apps', click on Windows DVD player.

[generic]

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Mine does. Go to 'All apps', click on Windows DVD player.

DVD support was probably added 3rd party vender by the PC supplier. Win10 doesn't support DVD out of the box.

[scardeal]

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I'm probably an outlier, but, to me, it's just another OS. I'm just glad it doesn't take appreciably more resources than 8.1.

[hongrn]

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I just switched my Win7 Toshiba laptop to Win10. Bassbox, ARTA, and WinPCD all do fine. My HP Color Laserjet and Lexmark inkjet printers both work well. Shutdown was about 12 seconds, and boot up about 35 seconds with a 256GB SSD. Everything has been smooth, except a few glitches. I keep a copy of my Win7 drive handy, but haven't had to switch back. I use Firefox for browser, so it's been pretty much trouble-free. Drivers that worked under Win7 are working under Win10 in my case.

Hong

[MGrant1957]

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I used XP for many years and only had a couple of programs that worked with 98SE but not XP. Then I got a computer that had Win 7 and still had problems with older software, but it is very stable. What I have seen/heard of Win 8, Win 8.1 and Win 10 makes me want to go back to Win 98SE.

Failure is not an option: It comes bundled with Windows.