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I disagree - a number of things in Windows 10 (like Metro) are not necessarily bad conceptually, but feel unfinished at best. A number of tools have half-compl

I disagree - a number of things in Windows 10 (like Metro) are not necessarily bad conceptually, but feel unfinished at best. A number of tools have half-complete functionality requiring falling back into the old mechanisms for doing things (Network Connections comes to mind), or removing methods of accessing useful information (ex. how are you supposed to find out what the total capacities of the respective batteries in modern laptops with more than one are, or even which battery it refers to as "battery 1"?). Some things are even strangely broken (either Win8 or Win10 added a nice abstraction layer for consistent transition of headphones/speakers/... without needing to reinit your sound output or relying on the sound card hiding it from you. This behavior worked great in Win8, but now sometimes crashes any program outputting audio when headphones are unplugged.) The tile-based UI experience is somewhat painful without a touchscreen, and I'm glad that Windows 10 migrated away from requiring that experience regardless of your ability to touch - but for the "last version of Windows", it definitely feels like most people are going to be waiting for an equivalent of 10.1.

cm2187 11y ago
I think the windows 10 UI feels terrible when used with a mouse. These massive dialog boxes and menus are ridiculous, as the idea that a UI should be all shades of grey. They reduced the density of the information presented on screen, which means more clicks to do the same thing. From a UI point of view I think the only real improvement over windows 7 is explorer, which was really slow and doing a lot of unwanted things in the background. Deleting files would leave windows7 thinking about it for seconds for no obvious reasons. But there can be other reasons to upgrade. Virtualization in windows 7 is no good. And win10 is the only way to get http2 in IIS.

cm2187 11y ago

I think the windows 10 UI feels terrible when used with a mouse. These massive dialog boxes and menus are ridiculous, as the idea that a UI should be all shades of grey. They reduced the density of the information presented on screen, which means more clicks to do the same thing. From a UI point of view I think the only real improvement over windows 7 is explorer, which was really slow and doing a lot of unwanted things in the background. Deleting files would leave windows7 thinking about it for seconds for no obvious reasons. But there can be other reasons to upgrade. Virtualization in windows 7 is no good. And win10 is the only way to get http2 in IIS.