Windows 10

[Techno]

That's exactly my view, Mick.

Cheers - Phil

[Poggle]

I got ticked off with Microsoft and all its works long ago and switched to Linux. My wife is getting these Windows 10 'upgrade' attempts on her laptop all the time, even though I disabled the download function. 

[slugbalancer]

I was happy with W10 until the Start menu kept going wrong.  MS know about the problem (apparently a "bad" upgrade) but doesn't want to fix it themselves.  I ended up downloading an app to replace the MS Start menu.  Much happier now, well I was until certain apps stopped running for my wife.  Ended up downloading a very old version of the Windows calulator as she had run out of toes..

[fsn]

I had that "start" button problem. Fixed it, then a couple of updates later it went again.

I don't bother now. I prefer to right click the windows button. Less ... showy.

[Techno]

Before I reverted to Windows 8......Even right clicking the start button didn't help !

Cheers - Phil

[O Dinas Powys]

But... but... but I like it!

Got to agree (a bit!) - loathed Windows 8; 8.1 was still crap! 10's not perfect, but it's at least a reasonably tolerable approximation of the proper Windows of yester yore (that I vaguely understood how to do stuff on)...

Cheers!

Meirion

[toxicpixie]

I've been happy with 10, except for the Start menu issues (now fixed, thus far...) and the Calculator going kaput. Which this thread just reminded me to check, and it now works again! Hurrah for updates!

[DanJ]

I've got a Windows 7 laptop which I use for most things and have been plagued by MS urging me to upgrade for free, however given the age and power of the hardware I'm not going to touch it.

I've recently bought a new laptop with W10 pre-installed, mostly for photo work as my old one won't run the latest version of Lightroom.  It works fine, although Bing is a pain and I'm slowly getting used to it but I'm fortunate that I'm not dependent on W10 upgrade on a dodgy hardware platform with a lot of old programs.

One solution I've heard advocated is to get a W10 machine then run W7, XP or whatever inside it as a virtual machine however I would only think this is viable if the W10 machine was new, reasonably high spec and the W10 was a factory install.

I'm pretty certain that my next major upgrade will be to a big iMac, I always went for PCs because I've worked with them for years, but my job's changed and I haven't done PC support/development for years and I no longer need to run the same versions of MS Office at home as I have at work.  W10 is as alien to me as Mac OS, however I won't be moving on for 3 or 4 years when my current W10 laptop dies or won't run the next version of the MS software.

[SV52]

Bring back 3.1 and DOS CLI 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No - we need paper tape and punch cards.

IanS

[fsn]

Punch cards made excellent paper darts. In an experiment in my first job, we clocked one at over 100mph when fired from a specially created catapult.  We were waiting for a server upgrde to complete, so had lots of time to waste.


Part of my job is training people in Data Protection. A fun part (yes it is) of this is looking at how computers were in 1998 (when the act came out) then rolling forward to now. Many changes! 

[Ithoriel]

Punch cards - the ultimate shopping list notepad

Punched tape - first computer security password system I ever came across.

Tutor says,"I can't tell you the password but here's a piece of punched tape with it on. Just run it through the tape reader to access Palo Alto. Give it back at the end of the session."

First thing we four smartarse students do is run it through the reader with the print option selected. Several copies later we have access to do revision at will.

Couple of weeks later tutor is embarrassed to find he's forgotten to bring the security tape and four hands go up waving replacements. Tutor is unsure whether to be relieved class can go on as planned annoyed that we'd circumvented the "security system."

[lentulus]

I use windows 10 at work. On a sufficiently gutsy machine it's pretty good.

[toxicpixie]

I quite like it, tbh.

Something I've seen a couple of do post-free update window closing, is to reset their computers clock so it's on a date before 27-07-16 and then it'll do the update!

[Duckman]

I have seriously considered using Linus, but it does cause some problems with application compatability