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> If these are their go to examples, seems to very much not be worth the price of admission in my opinion It's an especially hard sell for me as, anecdotally,
by stordoff 7y ago
> If these are their go to examples, seems to very much not be worth the price of admission in my opinion
It's an especially hard sell for me as, anecdotally, I've had _far_ more issues with Windows 10 than I ever had with 7. Recent one (1903 update) - virtually all text disappeared (desktop icons, menus, Notepad docs all appeared blank, and it made the address bar in Chrome take up about half the screen for some reason). On about 1/10 reboots, it would _eventually_ work if I restarted explorer.exe (text would start appearing in Task Manager, which was my cue to restart explorer). Safe Made, clean installing my graphics divers (assuming it was some sort of rendering bug), and sfc/DISM all failed to fix it. I eventually fixed it by (which was a shot in the dark more than anything):
1. Taking ownership of C:\Windows\Fonts
2. Deleting everything in \Fonts except files that are in use
3. Using sfc /scannow to restore to contents of \Fonts
4. Restoring ownership to Trusted Installer
All in all, not a fun process, and a couple of hours lost. I then wasted another 20 minutes or so as subsequent Windows Updates were failing, so I rebooted a few times to retry and was troubleshooting Windows Update. Apparently it was just installing in the background, but didn't feel like telling me that (it was just saying "Install now", then giving me a generic error code).
Similar issues have happened often enough that I'll delay updates until I know I don't _need_ my machine for at least a day. I never got to that stage with XP/Vista/7.