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Post by Peter on Aug 7, 2015 22:13:26 GMT 10
I took the bait last night and accepted the free upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Apart from having to manually configure privacy settings (no, I don't want Microsoft to monitor my typing patterns, thank you very much), I've found it runs so very slowly. Even a simple "app" like calculator takes a few seconds to load.
Give me Linux any day.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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Post by graynomad on Aug 7, 2015 23:19:27 GMT 10
I haven't, mostly because I won't touch it with a barge pole I can't afford to have my OS upgrade whenever it likes on my data plan, and 10 will do that.
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Post by Peter on Aug 8, 2015 0:17:47 GMT 10
I have a pretty decent data plan. And now I have an utterly shite OS. At least I can revert to 8.1 any time in the next month.
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Post by australia on Aug 8, 2015 21:00:15 GMT 10
I will stick with windows 7 X64 , "if it ain't broke don't fix it" , win 10 looks like it has too much spy telemetry reporting (back to Microsoft) going on and I have seen comments re disabling theses many settings but they seem to restart themselves mysteriously ......
Once I get sick of windows I will go to Ubuntu
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Post by Peter on Aug 8, 2015 21:02:43 GMT 10
I was happiest when I used to use Linux in the mid-90's. Powerful, fast, easily configured to suit my needs. I'm actually tempted to change to a Mac if MS keeps this rubbish up.
I'd gladly go back to NT.0 or Win 3.11 if they would support current peripherals.
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Post by australia on Aug 8, 2015 21:05:48 GMT 10
And then there is "hackintosh" on a PC
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Post by Peter on Aug 8, 2015 21:17:27 GMT 10
And then there is "hackintosh" on a PC Do tell? I've never heard of it.
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Post by australia on Aug 8, 2015 21:21:28 GMT 10
Basically a way of installing Apple OS on a windows PC One of the best places to go is here first www.hackintosh.com
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Post by Peter on Aug 8, 2015 21:49:36 GMT 10
Thanks - I'll check that out.
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Post by graynomad on Aug 9, 2015 18:10:29 GMT 10
I will stick with windows 7 X64 , "if it ain't broke don't fix it"... Except MS don't give a crap about that. We have a friend in the US who had disabled all updates but even then Windows downloaded 3gig of update and gave them 2 days to install it. No way to back out, if you don't install within those 2 days it will do it anyway. Apparently you have to set your connection to "metered", indicating that you are paying per MB.
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Post by australia on Aug 9, 2015 18:43:11 GMT 10
I have always disabled auto updating on all PC's running Win7 I've serviced (literally 80+) and never heard of that happening . Never heard of the "metered" setting either , I believe it's a Win8 - 10 setting you have mentioned , also win10 has many privacy/telemetry/auto reporting settings that need to be disabled before use as many have found out the hard way ,
that's why I will stick to Win7
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Post by graynomad on Aug 9, 2015 21:47:49 GMT 10
I hadn't heard of metered connections either, just googled it for 8.1 ("windows 8.1 set metered connection") and found this winaero.com/blog/how-to-set-a-connection-as-metered-in-windows-8-1/Mine was already set to metered. I dunno if this make any difference or not but it can't do any harm I think and no way I want 10. EDIT: Looks like a post W7 thing
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Post by thereth on Aug 10, 2015 10:30:24 GMT 10
I have 3 windows 10 machines here in the office that have all been infected. The removal of said viruses seems more complex and there are some interesting errors I have never seen before.....
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