Forced to install this shite because Windows 7 has gone out of support. ZOMG the installation process is bad. And it's overwritten my Linux bootloader without so much as a warning. I only ever use Windows to update satnav devices these days. Anyone else find it dumbed-down, excessively intrusive and frankly terrible?
I installed it on my mums PC yesterday, was quite impressed at how quick and easy it was. Aside from the slightly hidden option to create a local account, instead of a Microsoft account. Quite simple to turn off most features that send data to Microsoft. Don't have a microphone to use Cortana etc anyway.
The default interface is a bit annoying, but can disable a lot of stuff to make it more usable.
Generally seems a lot more stable than Windows 7. Not too slow, even on an older PC, I upgraded the RAM anyway.
- All the usual Windows stuff is hidden. I keep failing to find the device manager.Right click on the start button, or press Windows + X.
Right click on the start button, or press Windows + X.
That has some useful shortcuts to a variety of admin tools. eg Task manager, device manager, powershell.
Or just click the start button and start typing in the name of what you are looking for.
Or just click the start button and start typing in the name of what you are looking for. Can’t remember last time I navigated to stuff via the menus but defo pre windows 7 (when the search functionality appeared).
That's fine when you can remember what Windows calls things.
Or just click the start button and start typing in the name of what you are looking for. Can’t remember last time I navigated to stuff via the menus but defo pre windows 7 (when the search functionality appeared).
That's fine when you can remember what Windows calls things.
That’s true of any operating system.
Or just click the start button and start typing in the name of what you are looking for. Can’t remember last time I navigated to stuff via the menus but defo pre windows 7 (when the search functionality appeared), so pre 2009.
Or just click the start button and start typing in the name of what you are looking for. Can’t remember last time I navigated to stuff via the menus but defo pre windows 7 (when the search functionality appeared).
That's fine when you can remember what Windows calls things.
That’s true of any operating system.
Of course. But I'm fluent in *nix, rusty in Windows and computer literate, so poking around a hierachy of utilities and settings is more likely to lead me to the right place quickly than trying to remember the names for things.
(Credit where it's due: This is the good way round. It's generally much harder for a Microsoft person to find what they're looking for on a Linux system.)
Control Panelly stuff is now a totally fragmented nightmare.
(Credit where it's due: This is the good way round. It's generally much harder for a Microsoft person to find what they're looking for on a Linux system, not least because most of the GUI tools are a trap.)
(Credit where it's due: This is the good way round. It's generally much harder for a Microsoft person to find what they're looking for on a Linux system, not least because most of the GUI tools are a trap.)
I find the fastest way of finding how to do something on any OS, is to declare loudly on twitter that it is impossible to do what I want to do on the platform I want to do it. A man appears within seconds to tell me how to do it. It's faster than google every single time...
I confess that I can never find anything on Linux (and adding something to a menu seems impressively tortuous) – I can usually dig through my memory midden to remember where something is on Windows, but yes, just changing screen size seems a nightmare, settings are splattered all over the place. On a Mac I just bang cmd-space and start typing which seems to the way it ought to work (and if you want to add something to the dock, just drag it there).
I shall be given a new work W10 laptop tomorrow. I am not looking forward to it. I've been using the NT UI since the early 90s* and I am well and truly habituated if not indoctrinated. Ithinkknow this is going to be painful.
* It was so long ago that my first ever NT installation was from 31 floppy disks and there was prob. with the drive which meant every single disk had to inserted, ejected and then re-inserted to carry on.
... inadvertently downloading pictures of ladies/gentlemen [delete as appropriate] ...
Win10 is touchscreen-friendly until you turn off all that stuff. Touchscreens are the same as light pens in the 1980s - they seem like a great idea until you actually use one for more than 2 minutes and realise how tired your hands get, just hanging in the air.