Windows 10! Good or Bad?

[Redpandarl]

I've upgraded to windows 10 and I love it, but I'm curious to how everybody else feels about it.

[Obey138 (Matthew "Fluffy")]

Any combatibility issues yet?

[HollowOfHaze]

I will stick to Windows 7 for a long while. If it works, don't fix it. I am worried about Microsoft doing something stupid and making the OS inoperable after an update. Also, tons of privacy issues apparently. It is almost like giving the keys of your PC to Microsoft.

[Nrein]

Thus far it has been a great OS to use. It's faster, I haven't had any issues yet, etc etc. I'm at least confident enough in it that I deleted the previous OS files to save space, though that means I can't roll back.

[Timmy Fox]

So much skepticism~

It's all fine, there's a few minor things that could be improved but it's WAY better than Windows 7.
Compared to Windows 8 it's improved quite a bit as well!

[VoodooMax]

I will stick to Windows 7 for a long while. If it works, don't fix it. I am worried about Microsoft doing something stupid and making the OS inoperable after an update. Also, tons of privacy issues apparently. It is almost like giving the keys of your PC to Microsoft.

I completely agree, Windows 7 (In my opinion) is the most stable build of Windows. Windows 8 and 8.1 was a complete disaster so I'll stick to Windows 7 until Microsoft forces me to upgrade.

[Obey138 (Matthew "Fluffy")]

From what I heard from a friend, Steam on Windows 10 has heavy problems with recording voice

[George]

I will stick to Windows 7 for a long while. If it works, don't fix it. I am worried about Microsoft doing something stupid and making the OS inoperable after an update. Also, tons of privacy issues apparently. It is almost like giving the keys of your PC to Microsoft.

I completely agree, Windows 7 (In my opinion) is the most stable build of Windows. Windows 8 and 8.1 was a complete disaster so I'll stick to Windows 7 until Microsoft forces me to upgrade.

I'm staying with 7 until I NEED 10.

[MrRazot]

I'm planning on upgrading to windows 10 tomorrow or the day after. I'll keep you guys up to date.

[Ryan Naismith]

I haven't tried it out, but my father has, on his own computer. The new browser, Microsoft Edge, is actually quite nice and intuitive. The features from windows 8 are there, if you want them, but it doesn't force you to so much as glance at them. Good thing too is that it keeps all of your stuff, so there's no need to back it up (though I would reccomend it anyways).

[Timmy Fox]

I might mention that there is a Go back to Windows 7/8 button in Settings > Update & Security > Recovery.

This feature will work for a full month after updating for as long as you don't delete the Windows.old folder.

I will stick to Windows 7 for a long while. If it works, don't fix it. I am worried about Microsoft doing something stupid and making the OS inoperable after an update. Also, tons of privacy issues apparently. It is almost like giving the keys of your PC to Microsoft.

Try seeing Windows 10 not as a "fix" but as an improvement over what was already good. There's a LOT of things that are better such as bootup times being insanely fast no matter what drive you're using and game performance being quite a lot better. Even older games seem to gain several few FPS compared to Windows 7.
The privacy issues aren't as bad as people make it out to be, it isn't worse than that of say Google, Apple or Youtube. The difference is that Microsoft is being fairly open about it and gives you checkboxes to turn everything off. Right after updating it'll ask you to set a few settings. Make sure to click "Customize settings" instead of "Use Express Settings" and turn off anything that you feel is bad for your privacy. Even after that you can also change whatever you'd like in the Settings-menu!

I completely agree, Windows 7 (In my opinion) is the most stable build of Windows. Windows 8 and 8.1 was a complete disaster so I'll stick to Windows 7 until Microsoft forces me to upgrade.

How come? I know Windows 8 had a few issues for the first few weeks but they were all fixed pretty quickly. Did you actually give Win 8 a try and for how long? Because it's not really that bad once you actually use it.. Like sure the whole Metro thing can be debated but if you disregard that one detail 8 was a significant improvement over Windows 7 in terms of details and under-the-hood; The whole kernel is much faster and better making it faster and more responsive than Windows 7 ever was, the Task Manager is reworked and much better and more useful, the progress box that comes up when copying or moving files shows is way better and overall the experience when copying or moving files is much much better (clicking "more info" actually shows more information!), multi-monitor support is another massive improvement too, for example.

All of these well-appreciated improvements Windows 8 brought has been carried over to Windows 10 whilst the things that Windows 8 was criticized for has been resolved and thus I would personally say Windows 10 is the best of both worlds between Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Well, that's just my thoughts anyhow, feel free to disagree but I'm sure updating won't suddenly make your PC explode. It's better than Windows 8 but is similar enough under the hood that essentially anything that worked with Windows 8.1 should work fine in Windows 10 as well!

[Nrein]

Good points

And not to mention the support. Unlike 8 where it felt like it was weeks before good support for programs was available, thus far I've had zero compatibility issues, with most programs even running faster. Not to mention the new features like virtual desktops. Sure Mac already had that but, this is such a nice feature when I get stuck with a single monitor ;-;

[EchoesAbove]

Win10 seems to have some driver issues with graphic and sound cards at the moment from what I hear.
Also the usual privacy issues, they are allowed to store all your emails and basically Win10 comes with a built-in keylogger and yaddayadda. Nothing new when it comes to "anti-terror measures". I'd be surprised if that's new and they only discovered the clauses when Win10 came out.

Personally, I'll wait a few months before installing. Getting software fresh from the release is never a good idea. Way too many little bugs that went unnoticed and are only found out about when users actually mass-test it.

[Timmy Fox]

Win10 seems to have some driver issues with graphic and sound cards at the moment from what I hear.
Also the usual privacy issues, they are allowed to store all your emails and basically Win10 comes with a built-in keylogger and yaddayadda. Nothing new when it comes to "anti-terror measures". I'd be surprised if that's new and they only discovered the clauses when Win10 came out.

Personally, I'll wait a few months before installing. Getting software fresh from the release is never a good idea. Way too many little bugs that went unnoticed and are only found out about when users actually mass-test it.

Do check up on what I posted above.
The driver issues you may have heard of was a minor Nvidia one. This was already fixed in the latest 353.62-driver which was released on the same day as Windows 10 was released (July 29).

Don't listen to everything you hear, I updated as soon as the update was available and haven't had a single issue at all either on my laptop or desktop. There's no problems at all that would flat out break anything since Windows 10 was made in a way so essentially anything that works fine on 8.1 will work on Windows 10. If you're updating from Windows 7 instead of 8.1 perhaps you might need to update a few things but otherwise there shouldn't be any major issues that will stop your computer from working.
(And there's also the "Return to Windows 7 / 8.1" button in case you'd want to revert the update for whatever reason.

[Nautilus567]

I'm still awaiting in the reservation process but I think it could be a good OS... But until I don't have it, I don't know