iamwhatiseem
Diamond Member
Too late...
It was horrible.
Today, it is better. My main issues with it is slow boot up, comparatively, and the annoying signon page that fairly often messes up with our laptop. Not sure of it is Win 10 or the HP laptop. Fairly often you open the laptop...the sign on blur page appears...you login and then suddenly it goes to sleep again... apparently we are not alone in this.
Other than that, using Winaero it is quite usable.
Win 10 is better than when it started which was almost Nazi'sk in it's approach.Well good for you......The real backlash started when Ubuntu tried the first "one size fits all" approach with Unity, Microsoft didn't learn from Ubuntu's mistake and tried the same thing with Windows 8. We know how well that went over, they somewhat changed it with Win 10 bringing back at least a version of the old Start Menu with Tiles attached because a lot of people liked that.
You want the old Win 7 or XP style Start Menu? Buy and download Startisback for $4 and no more Windows 10 Start Menu. Get Win10Apps for free to uninstall all the bloatware that MS hasn't already removed and get Winaero's free Windows Tweaker to take care of just about everything else. I've spent about the same amount of time configuring my Linux distos as I have my Windows machines and all the games I like play on Windows but not on my Linux.
The only reason I keep a machine with Widoze on it anymore...It's my gamer.
Look, everything changes we change with it or not. I'm learning that despite some things I don't like Win 10 is a good, solid operating system but I'm also using equipment that is relatively new so I don't have the upgrade issues many have with older machines and drivers. Besides I have Windows driver update turned off, I update my own drivers, problem solved, I also have telemetry completely disabled. I use a Local Account to log in so I'm not signed into Microsoft unless I choose to be and Cortana doesn't run at all on my machines.
It was horrible.
Today, it is better. My main issues with it is slow boot up, comparatively, and the annoying signon page that fairly often messes up with our laptop. Not sure of it is Win 10 or the HP laptop. Fairly often you open the laptop...the sign on blur page appears...you login and then suddenly it goes to sleep again... apparently we are not alone in this.
Other than that, using Winaero it is quite usable.