Windows 10 Sucks.

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No but that would cost me a fortune because I would need to buy new licenses for several of the programs on it. Anyway, it isn't that important to me. I just don't like Windows 11. I feel like it is spying on me and reporting too much back to MS HQ.

From what you said in post #11, it would seem that you accidentally let something download windows 11 onto your windows 10 computer. I don't know how that is possible. But if you don't like windows 11, can't you use the same process to download windows 10 back onto your computer? I know that soon they will stop providing updates to windows 10, but if you prefer it, do it anyway. Neither am I spying for microsoft. My advice to you would be to contact microsoft yourself and tell them that windows 11 sucks ass. And tell they why. Maybe they won't pull the same crap with their next OS. Windows 12 maybe?

 

[Dekster]

From what you said in post #11, it would seem that you accidentally let something download windows 11 onto your windows 10 computer. I don't know how that is possible. But if you don't like windows 11, can't you use the same process to download windows 10 back onto your computer? I know that soon they will stop providing updates to windows 10, but if you prefer it, do it anyway. Neither am I spying for microsoft. My advice to you would be to contact microsoft yourself and tell them that windows 11 sucks ass. And tell they why. Maybe they won't pull the same crap with their next OS. Windows 12 maybe?

It happened because I clicked the automatically download and install all updates box late one afternoon without realizing that it would change the OS. That is how it happened. Had I known I would have never checked that damn box. I just wanted it to stop pestering me in the middle of the day for windows updates. I had zero idea until the following morning when I turned it on and it started automatically changing the OS with zero option to stop it.

 

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It happened because I clicked the automatically download and install all updates box late one afternoon without realizing that it would change the OS. That is how it happened. Had I known I would have never checked that damn box. I just wanted it to stop pestering me in the middle of the day for windows updates. I had zero idea until the following morning when I turned it on and it started automatically changing the OS with zero option to stop it.

Maybe if you contacted microsoft and told them what happened, they would somehow make it right by giving you the ability to get windows 10 back onto your computer. But if microsoft is anything like Dell, good luck on trying to find somebody to help with anything.

 

[Dekster]

Maybe if you contacted microsoft and told them what happened, they would somehow make it right by giving you the ability to get windows 10 back onto your computer. But if microsoft is anything like Dell, good luck on trying to find somebody to help with anything.

That ironically is also my last Dell computer I will ever buy. They used to be solid performers. The last 3 or 4 I have bought basically won't work worth poo after their free support ends unless you continue to buy support from them. It is like they design it to destablize things just so you have to pay them to fix it or something. IDK. I have gone back to acers as they seem to be the only halfway decent computers left as far as desktops. I admittedly have never had an HP but they seem to be big into the all-in-one setups and I don't like that. I want to be able to select my own monitors separate from the workstation.

 

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You don't "need" Windows updates.

The main reason you want them is for security patches.

But here's a hint: if you have Norton, Symantec will continue to protect your machine long after Windows 10 end-of-life.

 

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That ironically is also my last Dell computer I will ever buy. They used to be solid performers. The last 3 or 4 I have bought basically won't work worth poo after their free support ends unless you continue to buy support from them. It is like they design it to destablize things just so you have to pay them to fix it or something. IDK. I have gone back to acers as they seem to be the only halfway decent computers left as far as desktops. I admittedly have never had an HP but they seem to be big into the all-in-one setups and I don't like that. I want to be able to select my own monitors separate from the workstation.

My last dell computer was an E6420 that used windows 7. I had no problem with OS. But the computer itself started going buggy. Usually a couple of times a day the keyboard would stop working. To fix it I had to restart the computer. So I decided to get a refurbished dell that used windows 10. What happened to my old computer can probably happen to any computer. After all, it was over 10 years old. It probably got one of those tin spurs starting to grow between one of the chip connections. If it wasn't for that, I would still be using it.

 

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You don't "need" Windows updates.

The main reason you want them is for security patches.

But here's a hint: if you have Norton, Symantec will continue to protect your machine long after Windows 10 end-of-life.

Norton costs money. I used the free version of Panda dome. Which has an active anti virus scan. On top of that, I go through either a VPN or an anonymous search engine. I found all that to give me any protection I need. The strange thing is, on my windows 10 computer, I can't get Epic privacy browser to work. When I try to use it, all I get is a black screen that I can't make go away. Maybe it is because I tried to download it through another privacy browser and a VPN. I don't know.

 

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But for those of you who use it, I'm sure you already know that. I bought a cheap dell laptop that uses windows 10 because my old one that uses window 7 started going to hell. Just trying to get it to operate was a nightmare. And I'm still working out the kinks. That's why I haven't been around in the last few days. I wonder how much money Microsoft makes just to create screwy programs like that.

It's fine. Windows 11 is fine too. They do what they do, and they do it well. You just have to learn it.

Try Linux, my old computer uses that and my other half uses it for work sometimes.

My other half wanted to change the font size on the desktop and in programs. I spent ages using the internet to figure out how to change it, only for me to figure out that typing "font" gave me the option to do it.

Installation is tricky, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Word processors don't work as well, have less features, you want to change the language, you need a degree in "what the fork is this sheet?"

 

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It's fine. Windows 11 is fine too. They do what they do, and they do it well. You just have to learn it.

Try Linux, my old computer uses that and my other half uses it for work sometimes.

My other half wanted to change the font size on the desktop and in programs. I spent ages using the internet to figure out how to change it, only for me to figure out that typing "font" gave me the option to do it.

Installation is tricky, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Word processors don't work as well, have less features, you want to change the language, you need a degree in "what the fork is this sheet?"

Well I have an AI with my Brave browser. If I am having problems, I don't have to go digging through an owners manual. I just ask the Brave AI how to do something and it tells me. It doesn't always work out well. But it usually does.

 

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Well I have an AI with my Brave browser. If I am having problems, I don't have to go digging through an owners manual. I just ask the Brave AI how to do something and it tells me. It doesn't always work out well. But it usually does.

I'm sure Linux would still be a problem. You search things and there are five different options for how to solve this problem, and chances are none of them will work.

 

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I'm sure Linux would still be a problem. You search things and there are five different options for how to solve this problem, and chances are none of them will work.

Yeah, I have run into that problem often enough. Another is that it tells you the steps to go through to fix a particular problem. They say that in one particular window to click on a particular option that is supposed to come up. But it isn't there. So, you then have to continue slogging through things until you can get the problem fixed. Or not. As in one case with my computer, I tried to make it so that I didn't have to enter a password to use the computer. It didn't work. Maybe when I have the time to mess with it, I'll try again.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Yeah, I have run into that problem often enough. Another is that it tells you the steps to go through to fix a particular problem. They say that in one particular window to click on a particular option that is supposed to come up. But it isn't there. So, you then have to continue slogging through things until you can get the problem fixed. Or not. As in one case with my computer, I tried to make it so that I didn't have to enter a password to use the computer. It didn't work. Maybe when I have the time to mess with it, I'll try again.

Yes, I know that feeling. I am trying to learn Blender, and Blender changes with each update, and older videos will either tell you to click on something that isn't there, or has changed, or the worst is when they tell you to do something, but at one critical point they expect you to know what they're talking about and you have no clue.

Windows is far more intuitive than Linux. And I've used Windows 10 and now use Windows 11 and after a few days, they're fine, you just get used to them.