Skanda
I'm Amod too!
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"Better" is completely subjective and I'm saying this as someone running Win10.
Windows 10
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Rezz
Mr. Poopybutthole
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I like it a little better than 7, and overall a lot better than the official unmodded 8 releases. It's not game-changing though at all, and I still don't like the default start menu setup. But it hasn't had any real issues for me so changing from 7 to 10 was just a mild start menu/search bar change.
It doesn't seem any faster from my usage (installed in October) and is pretty much just more of the same. Certainly no Xp/Vista to 7 change, that's for damn sure. 7 was my boy.
It doesn't seem any faster from my usage (installed in October) and is pretty much just more of the same. Certainly no Xp/Vista to 7 change, that's for damn sure. 7 was my boy.
BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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I think that most of the objection to Windows 10 is just a throwback to the many times Microsoft has put out a shitty update and made us pay for it. People have made lots of hay by talking about how smart they are for not falling for the upgrade etc. Windows 10 is both good and free so the attitude is not really appropriate for this one but people are still doing it.
Intrinsic
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One thing Windows 10 has done 'more righter' than windows 8 is integrating the search for anything you want feature. Maybe I'm just a keyboard guy or it comes with being conditioned on DOS, but being able to Windows+s and type two to three characters of what I want to run, then execute, is great. I'm by no means a power user or dev, I watch porn and play dota. But even grandma can learn, click the little windows button and type 'pictures,' then you can see all your pictures! Windows 8 was so bad it forced me back in the habit of using that for almost everything and it has just improved in 10.
Funkor
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One vague annoyance I've run into with Windows 10 (and by extension 8/8.1) is the VRAM limit of 4GB for DirectX 9 programs. My current card has exactly 4 GB of VRAM so it doesn't affect me yet, but if I upgrade at all it would be irritating to not get access to all available memory.
GPU memory allocation limit on Directx9/Windows 8 | Microsoft Connect
GPU memory allocation limit on Directx9/Windows 8 | Microsoft Connect
jeydax
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Little bit of a tangent here, but if you're not usingEverythingon your Windows machine you're doing it wrong. It can be installed throughNiniteas well.
Windows 10 installed the twitter app on my computer without asking or anything. Coupled with the way they shoved the OS itself down everyone's throats, they are really creating a worrying MO.
chaos
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fanaskin
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Nothing's free it's got keyloggers and anti theft shit bundled into it, it's free like cheese on a mousetrap is free.
BrutulTM
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The whole "If you aren't paying then you're the product" chorus that plagues every mention of free services online, while true, is completely useless. I don't steal Windows so I don't give a shit about anti-theft and my precious datas are not doing me any good nor am I experiencing or expecting to experience any negative effects from it being collected. If they can make money on shit that doesn't effect me in a negative way then more power to them. I have been seeing advertising everywhere I looked for my entire life. If the worst effect of these "free" services taking my precious privacies is that those ads might be for something I'm interested instead of tampax and flowmax then I don't see the problem.
chaos
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It is true, and an important distinction. Some people care about privacy. Some people care way to much about privacy and take it to the extreme, for sure. But the idea or MS having access to literally all data about you and your life, sending it to some AWS server in real time to be analyzed by whatever godmode computer they have then stored indefinitely, it isn't too much to say "wow that gives me pause." And most people are not aware of that really, they just accept it and click through the shit to get the pellet at the end.
jeydax
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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Just installed win10. The fact that sticky corners is a problem still and this:
Non Stick Mouse in corners of Windows 10 | Jonathan Barton
Is the only way to fix it blows my mind.
I also see the window registry is still a giant piece of shit. Vanilla installation has so many keys that regedit crashes when searching. I feel like I went from a windows 7 installation completely corrupted from years of use and abuse to a clean win10 install and I have more regedit keys. I hope they bite the bullet in windows 11 and either make a ruleset to stop the cruft or just delete the entire thing.
Non Stick Mouse in corners of Windows 10 | Jonathan Barton
Is the only way to fix it blows my mind.
I also see the window registry is still a giant piece of shit. Vanilla installation has so many keys that regedit crashes when searching. I feel like I went from a windows 7 installation completely corrupted from years of use and abuse to a clean win10 install and I have more regedit keys. I hope they bite the bullet in windows 11 and either make a ruleset to stop the cruft or just delete the entire thing.
I still have a ton of problems on my surface pro 2 since bringing it up to Windows 10.
Main thing is the wireless getting half the speed it was getting with windows 7. I've done a ton of troubleshooting on it, and made some improvements, but it still isn't what I was getting originally
Main thing is the wireless getting half the speed it was getting with windows 7. I've done a ton of troubleshooting on it, and made some improvements, but it still isn't what I was getting originally
jeydax
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That seems strange. Did you do an upgrade to Windows 10 or a fresh install? Either way, (and I'm assuming you've done this but I have to ask) have you updated the drivers to the right version? Run something likeHWiNFOto get the exact wifi chip it is and get the right driver if you haven't already done that. Microsoft has the driver package for the Surface Pro 2herebut if I was having issues I'd use HWiNFO and find out the exact chip to get the driver if what I had wasn't working right.
Hardware driver is the first thing that comes to mind for me at least.
Hardware driver is the first thing that comes to mind for me at least.
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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The new photo viewer is a piece of crap. Luckily the old one was still left in as cruft and I could enable it by editing the registry.
I also figured out how to permanently disable windows defender. It's annoying it wasn't in the windows defender configuration but in some hell hole.
I also figured out how to permanently disable windows defender. It's annoying it wasn't in the windows defender configuration but in some hell hole.