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You can release the best possible hardware on a laptop and I'm still going to pass because of Windows 10. Windows 10 is easily the worst edition of Windows I'v

You can release the best possible hardware on a laptop and I'm still going to pass because of Windows 10. Windows 10 is easily the worst edition of Windows I've ever used. It forces you to update and breaks the entire damn machine at every go

bufferoverflow 8y ago
Bullshit. Windows 10 is the best Windows ever made. Never had a problem with it, and the updates are generally great. They had one recent one that went bad for a small number of users. None of our machines had any problems. My Ubuntu desktop and my Ubuntu server in comparison are constantly having problems, especially when I upgrade the distro to the next version.
- justtopost 8y ago
  We got a contrarian! Seriously tho, I have 16 machines I use. Running everything from amigaos to ubuntu studio, win10, and mac. Windows 10 is by far the least responsive, and tqkes more time updating and fixing drivers than the rest combined. Sure, I use music interfaces, latency is my devil, but even ignoring that weakness, Windows 10 is both the worst OS I run, and only better than ME and Vista even in the microsoft world.
- lunchables 8y ago
  >Bullshit. Windows 10 is the best Windows ever made. Never had a problem with it, and the updates are generally great. They had one recent one that went bad for a small number of users. None of our machines had any problems. Pulled updates because of files being deleted, network drives not working after updates, updates installing without user confirmation on reboot forcing people to wait for Windows to get done. Automatically re-installing games into the start menu even on "Professional" version of Windows 10. Start menu searching that is inconsistent and slow. Invasive privacy settings that have a tendency to "accidentally" reset themselves after updates. This is all well documented on the web, feel free to do some searching. I cannot fathom how anyone can believe Windows 10 is the best version of Windows. >My Ubuntu desktop and my Ubuntu server in comparison are constantly having problems, especially when I upgrade the distro to the next version. https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-forced-downloads-we-wont-do-them-again-pledges-microsoft/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-forced-downloads-we... And besides the forced upgrades, the amount of issues people had with Windows 7 to 10 upgrades might have been the worst I've seen of any version of Windows.
dschn_dstryr 8y ago
No one forces you to run windows on this machine.
- puranjay 8y ago
  The software I use (music production) works only on Mac and Windows. No Linux support
  - LiquidFlux 8y ago
    So why are you passing on the laptop, if particular software in this case is the issue?
  - PascLeRasc 8y ago
    What do you think of Ardour? I'm classically a Logic/Ableton person but Ardour is really well-polished for FOSS.
  - fb03 8y ago
    I am on the same boat. I need to use Linux to code but my Music Production affairs happen on the Windows side of it.
O_H_E 8y ago
Linux desktop is in a pretty good shape (not perfect) these days. I encourage you to give Pop_OS & ElementaryOS a try on a live disk.

bufferoverflow 8y ago

Bullshit. Windows 10 is the best Windows ever made. Never had a problem with it, and the updates are generally great. They had one recent one that went bad for a small number of users. None of our machines had any problems. My Ubuntu desktop and my Ubuntu server in comparison are constantly having problems, especially when I upgrade the distro to the next version.

justtopost 8y ago
We got a contrarian! Seriously tho, I have 16 machines I use. Running everything from amigaos to ubuntu studio, win10, and mac. Windows 10 is by far the least responsive, and tqkes more time updating and fixing drivers than the rest combined. Sure, I use music interfaces, latency is my devil, but even ignoring that weakness, Windows 10 is both the worst OS I run, and only better than ME and Vista even in the microsoft world.
lunchables 8y ago
>Bullshit. Windows 10 is the best Windows ever made. Never had a problem with it, and the updates are generally great. They had one recent one that went bad for a small number of users. None of our machines had any problems. Pulled updates because of files being deleted, network drives not working after updates, updates installing without user confirmation on reboot forcing people to wait for Windows to get done. Automatically re-installing games into the start menu even on "Professional" version of Windows 10. Start menu searching that is inconsistent and slow. Invasive privacy settings that have a tendency to "accidentally" reset themselves after updates. This is all well documented on the web, feel free to do some searching. I cannot fathom how anyone can believe Windows 10 is the best version of Windows. >My Ubuntu desktop and my Ubuntu server in comparison are constantly having problems, especially when I upgrade the distro to the next version. https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-forced-downloads-we-wont-do-them-again-pledges-microsoft/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-forced-downloads-we... And besides the forced upgrades, the amount of issues people had with Windows 7 to 10 upgrades might have been the worst I've seen of any version of Windows.

dschn_dstryr 8y ago

No one forces you to run windows on this machine.

puranjay 8y ago
The software I use (music production) works only on Mac and Windows. No Linux support
- LiquidFlux 8y ago
  So why are you passing on the laptop, if particular software in this case is the issue?
- PascLeRasc 8y ago
  What do you think of Ardour? I'm classically a Logic/Ableton person but Ardour is really well-polished for FOSS.
- fb03 8y ago
  I am on the same boat. I need to use Linux to code but my Music Production affairs happen on the Windows side of it.

O_H_E 8y ago

Linux desktop is in a pretty good shape (not perfect) these days. I encourage you to give Pop_OS & ElementaryOS a try on a live disk.