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 have as little to do with it as possible, so can't really say whether it's bad or not, but:
- Frequent, intrusively large updates.
- All the usual Windows stuff is hidden. I keep failing to find the device manager.
- As mentioned, it likes to shit all over your bootloader. To be fair, Windows has been doing this since at least 2000, the new development is that it occasionally gets clever and spontaneously tries to repair itself, so you don't get any warning.
- Performance seems decent enough. Certainly a big improvement on 8.
- Tangential grumbles relating to UEFA bioses, which aren't technically Window's fault.
If you're literally just applying updates to a GPS, you could follow my approach of running an evaluation version of Win10 LTSB
[1] edition in VMWare Player, which I use for running Basecamp, the XFP fire panel configuration software, and occasional forays into the CrossMgr suite when I don't have the BHPC laptop to hand. If you don't have a valid licence, Windows shuts itself down after an hour, but is otherwise fully functional. For some reason I can't get to the bottom of, giving WVware focus seems to break the shift key in Linux, but that can be cured by running setxkbmap.
[1] Windows 10 Enterprise without Edge, Cortina and most of the bloat, intended for systems where the computer acts as a frontend to expensive industrial/medical hardware that does something rather more important than running Excel and accessing Facebook.