Windows 10

[Jaxter]

I waited for this? It was a big involved hassle getting the icon to pre register for window 10, finally the day came when it was ready to install and it went through a lot of windows and restarted several times to finally say it failed and restored windows 7. I looked up the error code which referred to a wireless network card, but this desktop computer doesn't have wireless capabilities. after researching various windows 10 failures I tried changing several settings and restarted the installation process again only to have it fail again but this time with a different failure code so I followed a few suggestions and tried a third time with the same result FAILURE! so I went out and bought a 5K iMac...problem solved. WOW is it ever fast and the screen resolution is fantastic! It will take me some time to get used to the different operating system but after 2 days I am probably 90% proficient with it.

[Cholla]

From what I have seen is W10 is a vehicle for spyware. At work we do not allow the W10 update.
You took the best solution!

[KevinRLi]

I updated from 8.1 to Win 10 on my home PC. No issues. I updated from Win 7 on my Work PC. No issues. I updated one of my VM's from Win 7 to Win 10. No issues. One of the girls at work asked me what I recommend. It was an older laptop with Win 7 on it. I told her to give it a shot and if it fails to uninstall. She installed. No issues.

Macs are great... But I prefer to use what the other 97% of the world uses. Not to mention I use what I support.

Also Macs are not without any issues. Just wait for that little question mark when you try to boot. Give it time. It will happen.

5 K for a Mac? Geeze.

[stevewfl]

I reluctantly bought my iMac  for my professional photography, its a 2011.  Zero issues and not slow. Never had a hint of an issue with the operating system/software.

My windows machine from that year has been replaced do to slowness, and both have been one big pain in the *ss.

So I've been a "reformed" Mac hater for quite some time 

And I'm not the only one, compare stock tickers on wall str, windows is a huge huge loser.

I'm not upgrading my windows machine to another windows machine!

[VirginiaJim]

I have two PCs at home, one with 7.1 and the other 8.1.  The preparation phase is showing that my Symantec Endpoint Protection won't work but I've fixed that issue by upgrading that product to be current.  I intend to upgrade the 7.1 pc within the next 6 months to 10.  It's my experimental PC.  I'm getting ready to remove the HDD and replace it with an SSD for a speed upgrade.  I may do the processor as well.  I'm making sure I have all the updates from MS before I do the upgrade.  Both 7.1 and 8.1 PCs are Professional versions of Windows.

Cholla, what do you mean it's a vehicle for Spyware?  I'd be interested in knowing about that.

Ok, I went out and looked....

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2956574/microsoft-subnet/windows-10-privacy-spyware-settings-user-agreement.html

This must be what you've seen or heard.  Thanks for bringing that up as I'll opt out as much as I can.  I didn't know about that.

I'll also use Start10 on both PCs.  I'm using Start8 on the 8.1 PC.

[Rhino]

The only way I'm willing to use a Win 8 machine is to use Start8. Is Win10 still the horrible "Metro" interface? Does Start10 fix that?

[VirginiaJim]

http://www.stardock.com/products/start10/

[Rembrant]

The only way I'm willing to use a Win 8 machine is to use Start8. Is Win10 still the horrible "Metro" interface? Does Start10 fix that?

Is start8 a fix to make Win 8 operate like old school Windows? I'm running Classic Shell on my Window 8 laptop and it seems to do the trick just fine...looks like its available for Win 10 as well.

[gPink]

Didn't need all this voodoo with xp. 

[Rembrant]

Didn't need all this voodoo with xp. 

Truth. I loved XP. Windows 7 seemed great too. All downhill after that...lol.

[VirginiaJim]

Is start8 a fix to make Win 8 operate like old school Windows? I'm running Classic Shell on my Window 8 laptop and it seems to do the trick just fine...looks like its available for Win 10 as well.

Windows 7 is not old school...XP on back is.

MS came out with the classic shell some time after Windows 8 came out.  Start8 fixed an issue that users were perceiving to be a problem.  Start10 keeps that fix going.

I have to keep up with the different releases as that is what my business clients are using these days....Windows, not Mac's.  Apple products, while good, make up a minuscule part of business PCs.  In fact so small, that I pay no attention to them.  I can count on one finger the number of my clients that use those products with the servers that I support.

I work with IBM i systems and IBM has stated that they won't support/test their long time emulator (Client Access) on that platform (W10).  They have another Java based emulator that is PC agnostic that will work with most platforms out there (i, Apple, Linux).

[maxtog]

Still using Mageia Linux- no spyware, no slowdowns, no virii.  Upgraded several weeks ago to Mageia 5, and then upgraded Mom this past weekend too.   Best install ever- super easy!  (I still mess with Fedora, but I don't think it is all that suitable for home users; and RHEL/Centos on servers, of course).  http://www.mageia.org/en/5/

Really no interest in MS-Windows anymore (well, never had that much interest to start with).  I can't believe everyone is going to roll over and play dead with allowing MS to track everything they are doing and force updates on them even when they are broken (has already happened once according to news feeds I watch).