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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

drunk asian neighbor posted:

yeah listen you seem really angry about this but as was pointed out earlier you can right-click the start button and it's right there

so even if moving the mouse and clicking twice is actually easier/less time-consuming than hitting 3-4 keys on your keyboard (which is about the gooniest argument I can possibly think of), you can still access the good old vanilla control panel with 2 clicks. :)

it's a goony argument but it's just one minor example of the general decision making in the design of the OS. It just has tons of little nitpick stuff like that I hate and there isn't a ton of good reasons to jump to 10 from 7 yet so I won't and I don't care about their false time limit.

:synpa:

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Varg
Jan 13, 2007

A friendly face.

I'm gonna stay on win 8.1 until they make another windows after 10

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I cancelled my upgrade, I'm a loving coward

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Professor Shark posted:

I cancelled my upgrade, I'm a loving coward

you're not missing anything, unless you cancelled the upgrade from windows 8

windows 10's main selling point is that it functions like windows 7 again, even if it looks worse

but there definitely is no reason to not jump off the burning shitpile that is windows 8 if you're unfortunate enough to have it

Huge Lady Pleaser
Jun 17, 2005

hello how r u doing im just looking for ppl 2 chill wit relax go out n have funn if ur looking for da same thing hit me up
Nap Ghost

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

you're not missing anything, unless you cancelled the upgrade from windows 8

windows 10's main selling point is that it functions like windows 7 again, even if it looks worse

but there definitely is no reason to not jump off the burning shitpile that is windows 8 if you're unfortunate enough to have it

windows 7 actually looks like shite, mate

Moola
Aug 16, 2006
windows 10 is fine

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Moridin920 posted:

it's a goony argument but it's just one minor example of the general decision making in the design of the OS. It just has tons of little nitpick stuff like that I hate and there isn't a ton of good reasons to jump to 10 from 7 yet so I won't and I don't care about their false time limit.

:synpa:

there are lots of good reasons to upgrade and very few to stay with 7

you are just retarded

Huge Lady Pleaser
Jun 17, 2005

hello how r u doing im just looking for ppl 2 chill wit relax go out n have funn if ur looking for da same thing hit me up
Nap Ghost
I wish windows start screen would just be a grid with tiny icons sized so that every single setting and program would be accessible in just two clicks

Raldikuk
Apr 7, 2006

I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

The Goatfather posted:

there are lots of good reasons to upgrade and very few to stay with 7

you are just retarded

Such as? The only reason I've found is DirectX 12 which no game requires yet anyway.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

The Goatfather posted:

there are lots of good reasons to upgrade and very few to stay with 7

you are just retarded

1) Pretty pretty file transfer graph
2) Speed boosts that, if you're using an SSD for your boot disk like you should, you won't notice anyway
3) Passive, constant CPU usage 10-15% higher than Windows 7
4) ???

Moola posted:

windows 10 is fine

which is to say they didn't make things worse this time around, which is hardly a compelling argument to upgrade

ANIME IS BLOOD fucked around with this message at 06:45 on May 11, 2016

Huge Lady Pleaser
Jun 17, 2005

hello how r u doing im just looking for ppl 2 chill wit relax go out n have funn if ur looking for da same thing hit me up
Nap Ghost
The Faster startup times were pretty impressive to me when I was booting from an HDD (maybe 5-10 seconds?) before I got my m2 drive. Everything else worked the same as win 7 so I don't see a reason not upgrade. Thanks to Microsfot for te free upgrade!!

-A Literal Retard

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
the only thing I was pleasantly surprised by was the upgrade process itself, in that across three computers it magically managed to not gently caress up and brick at least one of them, which considering their track record with similar experiments in the past is a legitimate improvement

that was impressive, but considering the cumulative changes include a nicer file transfer graph and a categorically worse start menu it's still pretty small time

Shaquin
May 12, 2007
lookin forward to windows gemg

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer
I have never had to use Windows 8 somehow

-office workstations are still on 7
-Win7 laptop survived through Win8 period without problems; still going
-still have Retail Win7 key sitting around from college so PC got a fresh Win7 install when I threw the SSD in there to replace now-groaningly-slow HDD as boot disk

feel like I kinda lucked out in an extremely minor and inconsequential way there

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


Monkey Fracas posted:

minor and inconsequential

You've just described every complaint about win10 in this entire thread so you're pretty much spot on

Man Whore
Jan 6, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT SPHERICAL CATS
=3



My biggest beef with 10 is it doesn't take into account my video game playing before installing updates so for like 2 minutes everyday my games will run like poo poo suddenly and without warning. And it is EVERY day.

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH
my os is whatever is on my stupid phone I don't think it uses windows

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

The Goatfather posted:

there are lots of good reasons to upgrade and very few to stay with 7

you are just retarded

but the other thread says 7 is better what do i do

Creed Reunion Tour
Jul 3, 2007

by Cyrano4747
Grimey Drawer
A nice man from India(?) called me and said windows was going to charge me double for the microsoft 10, because it's free for retards but twice as expensive for really cool and smart people (me)

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
2 x 0 = 0

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Man Whore posted:

My biggest beef with 10 is it doesn't take into account my video game playing before installing updates so for like 2 minutes everyday my games will run like poo poo suddenly and without warning. And it is EVERY day.

Windows updates can still be disabled from within the Services module, which you can find by typing the same into Cortana/search

unfortunately to get updates again you'll have to re-enable windows updates the same way and then run updates through Settings but that's just the ease and convenience of Windows 10 at work :buddy:

Ahundredbux
Oct 25, 2007

The right to bear arms

Bundle of Keys posted:

A nice man from India(?) called me and said windows was going to charge me double for the microsoft 10, because it's free for retards but twice as expensive for really cool and smart people (me)

in ur case u'll get paid to upgrade :grin:

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

Windows updates can still be disabled from within the Services module, which you can find by typing the same into Cortana/search

unfortunately to get updates again you'll have to re-enable windows updates the same way and then run updates through Settings but that's just the ease and convenience of Windows 10 at work :buddy:

see yeah you can fix this but if any of my friends or relatives asked about how to disable the annoying No-Choice Updates I would tell them "oh sorry it's impossible" because there is no way the average user is going to be able to go in and do that and remember how to do it and remember to update

Services Module is like "OMG you're hacking my computer WTF are you doing!!!"-Level to most people

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Huge Lady Pleaser posted:

windows 7 actually looks like shite, mate

Creed Reunion Tour
Jul 3, 2007

by Cyrano4747
Grimey Drawer

Ahundredbux posted:

in ur case u'll get paid to upgrade :grin:

n-noo I said i was mart :negative:

spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

So I have a question, maybe someone here can answer it: Is Windows 10 good?

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Best windows yet.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Germstore posted:

Best windows yet.

this is true

Sushi The Kid
Sep 10, 2005
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All I know is server 2012 (base not R2) is silly. Win 10 is ok, just right click that start button.

Creed Reunion Tour
Jul 3, 2007

by Cyrano4747
Grimey Drawer

Sushi The Kid posted:

All I know is server 2012 (base not R2) is silly. Win 10 is ok, just right click that start button.

OH MY GOD

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

guys get this



windows 69

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
THEY NAMED THE THIRD XBOX THE XBOX ONE!!!

Bodyholes
Jun 30, 2005

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

guys get this



windows 69

windows 666

Bodyholes
Jun 30, 2005

Edgar posted:

I had to update to windows 7 from xp because my video games don't run on xp. I will update my windows 7 to next version when the new video games don't work on 7.

i have a chance to upgrade to 10 right now since my computer's registry is hosed beyond repair and i have to reinstall

i could do it... but i can't figure out if i should

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

420

Moola
Aug 16, 2006
windows 10 is poo poo

because all windows are poo poo

but its still the best windows

download windows 10 today!

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Moola posted:

windows 10 is poo poo

because all windows are poo poo

but its still the best windows

download windows 10 today!

I could actually respect Microsoft if they made that their pitch

get tay on the horn

Huge Lady Pleaser
Jun 17, 2005

hello how r u doing im just looking for ppl 2 chill wit relax go out n have funn if ur looking for da same thing hit me up
Nap Ghost

Mental-Rectangle posted:

i have a chance to upgrade to 10 right now since my computer's registry is hosed beyond repair and i have to reinstall

i could do it... but i can't figure out if i should

There's really no downside to it besides maybe having to click in various menus a few times more lol. Really though it's pretty similar except faster.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Windows for serious should just make Windows free to end users because this poo poo is very confusing and we've all payed the windows tax probably 10 times over so far. They can still charge OEMs their 40 bucks or whatever because lol at trying to sell a laptop with ubuntu on it. Most users aren't confident enough to take it home an install a usable OS.

edit: Oh and enterprises can still get charged $$$$ per seat because that's where the real money is anyway.

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ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Huge Lady Pleaser posted:

There's really no downside to it besides maybe having to click in various menus a few times more lol. Really though it's pretty similar except faster.

certain hardware situations can cross problems with the upgrade, but I've heard it's mainly a problem with older systems

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