I upgraded two of my machines from W7 recently. W10 seems a bit more responsive to me. Both machines are 2-3 year old entry level laptops. I didn't have the guts to upgrade my work machine yet.
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RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
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RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
@flabdablet said:
Ridiculous. It's nowhere near as bad as it was in 2000 or so.
Like I said above, I bought an HP with Me preinstalled, and the crapware was so bad that it broke HTTPS. [...]
Just like today...
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RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
For the past 10 minutes I've been trying to remember whether any site I've been browsing back then might have required HTTPS... ... ... so far I've come up empty.
Okay, I actually don't remember any sites from that era either
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RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
@abird said:
Just like today...
No. From a security standpoint what you describe is obviously worse. What I meant is that if you went to any HTTPS URL, the browser would just spin forever and not even time out.
Okay, that does sound terrible. I wonder how manufacturers get away with that kind of brokenness. I mean, in the Lenovo case Joe Average wouldn't even notice anything was amiss. But pages flat out refusing to load... I guess there just weren't enough HTTPS sites around -
RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
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The only conclusion I can draw is that Win10 is obviously worth upgrading to* and there are no negatives!
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There are a couple of annoyances, but truth be told, I was surprised at how painless the upgrade is. Even the industrial automation software I need for work is chugging along just fine (Trust me: industrial automation Software is . If W10 can handle that, I don't expect trouble with anything else. )There were a couple of things I didn't like, but they were minor:
- Default DPI scaling sucks. Text is blurry as hell and gives me a headache. I can't believe this is the default for normal screens (i.e. non-high-dpi ones). Had to go and set the scaling to 100% manually. Even at 100%, some text still lacks sharpness
- The start menu occasionally hangs for a second or two for no apparent reason on an otherwise zippy machine
- I found some start menu entries to be missing after upgrading. God knows why.
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RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
@flabdablet said:
Ridiculous. It's nowhere near as bad as it was in 2000 or so.
Like I said above, I bought an HP with Me preinstalled, and the crapware was so bad that it broke HTTPS. [...]
Just like today... -
RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
I upgraded two of my machines from W7 recently. W10 seems a bit more responsive to me. Both machines are 2-3 year old entry level laptops. I didn't have the guts to upgrade my work machine yet.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
So, I was waiting for a parcel, to be delivered through DHL Express International. Signed up for SMS notifcations. And since we're on summer holidays at the moment, I was reasonably confident that I would be able to receive the package in person.
DPD pulled the same on me the other week. Didn't sign up for sms notifications though, so I only noticed when the package took a lot longer to arrive than I expected.After two 'apparently' failed delivery attempts (I was home), decided to suck it up and get the package from one of their "Packaging stations". All that, after spending 20 cents and 10 minutes trying to get through to a customer rep.