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I need to carry a high-end PC laptop (4k screen, 980GTX, etc.) and a MacBook Pro (Mid 2014). I used to use Windows 70% of the time and OSX the other 30%. That's
by christoph 10y ago
I need to carry a high-end PC laptop (4k screen, 980GTX, etc.) and a MacBook Pro (Mid 2014). I used to use Windows 70% of the time and OSX the other 30%. That's flipped to 95% OSX, 5% Windows, since Windows 10.
I completely mirror your thoughts. Windows 10 is an absolute disaster. I've lovingly used Windows since version 3.1.
The 4k screen is basically unusable when I'm plugged into an external monitor - no setting seems to get HiDPI and regular playing nicely. Windows has automatically updated the drivers at least three times, leaving it in a non bootable state, which has taken numerous hours to fix each time. System restore points are now absolutely vital.
The trackpad is completely unusable, I find myself accidentally moving files and folders about when I really didn't want to.
Forced upgrades are a disaster. They always seem to happen at horrendously inconvenient times. There's nothing quite like having three or four people standing around while you wait for Windows to install updates for a completely indeterminate amount of time.
Adverts (or what certainly look them) on my start bar... really?
The absolute mess of numerous different styles of settings screen - I used to know my way round Windows like a Pro. Now I have no clue when I click a setting if it's going to show me classic style window or a fullscreen Metro options screen.
- baldfat 10y agoI still am the lone Windows 8 was a better GUI guy, but Microsoft gave what people wanted in 10. I have not had your problem with 4k and 1080p mine plays nice with each other. I think it might be a driver issue on your graphics card.
- nakedrobot2 10y agoOH yes, the start menu. Do you want Donald Trump on your start menu? Really, Microsoft? (I think it was on the flipboard icon, I don't remember, I don't care....)
- BrandonLive 10y agoWait, are you complaining that an app you used and had pinned to Start put an image you didn't like there? Why not unpin or uninstall the app?
- smcl 10y agoI remember when I first used Windows 10 I found that a bunch of things were pinned there by default, one of which was probably a news app that included thumbnails in its icon. It's maybe a tad unfortunate that the parent poster had been confronted with Donald Trump's face in said icon, but it's a weird default to have IMO
- BrandonLive 10y agoI'm 99% sure those apps do not have "live tiles" until you run them at least once (and many of those default pinned apps, which change over time and depend on Edition, are not actually installed until you first click on them).
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- Ntrails 10y ago>Adverts (or what certainly look them) on my start bar... really? Sounds more like malware than windows 10.
- christoph 10y agoNope, this is well discussed. http://www.howtogeek.com/224805/the-start-menu-should-be-sacred-but-its-still-a-disaster-in-windows-10/ http://www.howtogeek.com/224805/the-start-menu-should-be-sac...