I’ve upgraded my desktop and had few issues. Granted, I had to go in and change a few settings to disable some unwanted stuff, but overall it’s not as bad as I’d feared. I’ve had zero driver issues, zero things that worked under Win7 not work in Win10.
Overall I am surprised. Aside from getting used to the Start Menu with has shades of Win8 toned down to tolerable levels and having a few useful features added to the desktop that make file/folder management slightly easier, it’s functionally identical with no annoyances added. Well, aside from not being able to change the color of the borders of my windows; I prefer something darker than bright fucking white!
I’d say that it’s pretty solid.
@Cruiser I have a sneaking suspicion that if you went from Win7 to Win10 your experience would’ve been far better. Win8 did a lot of ass-backwards things that Win7 never attempted and Win10 does differently. If you did anything with the Win8 tile applets, then you’re pretty much locked into Win8/8.1 eternally unless you’re willing to ditch them.
The search bar, in addition to having it’s own button instead of being on the Start Menu, has a setting so that it searches only your computer. I flipped that switch; if I wanted to search online, I’d use a search engine from my browser.
@Zaku I thought the same the first few times I used Win7. And no. One thing that is worth noting is that Win95 and Win98 are things that exist. Win9 would cause a little confusion. I doubt Win8 would’ve existed under than name had Windows used the same naming scheme they used in the mid-‘90s.
@JLeslie I can guess; many people fear change but cover their fear with hatred instead.
@SQUEEKY2 We’ve been through this before, so I will remind you (once again) that I used to have the same youthful delusion. Just because Jim Jones faked his death and put on a black turtleneck, that doesn’t mean I’m drinking the Apple Kool-aid that I spit out upon looking at the facts for myself and making an INFORMED decision.