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Whatever you're doing, it's not typical. My main desktop has been upgraded from Windows 7, WIndows 8, 8.1, and now Windows 10. I've never have to re-install i

Whatever you're doing, it's not typical. My main desktop has been upgraded from Windows 7, WIndows 8, 8.1, and now Windows 10. I've never have to re-install in all that time. It's stable and fast. No update issues. This is really the norm. And I'm not particularly easy on Windows -- I have tons of development tools, games, customizations. I've changed hardware.

charlesdaniels 7y ago
> This is really the norm. Again anecdotally; most of my friend group (professional developers and CS students) who run Windows seem to constantly complain about performance issues and bugs (UI issues, not sleeping correctly on laptops, etc.). I don't think anyone has ever said "hey guys, come check out this slick new feature" or really anything positive at all about it. > No update issues. <insert anecdote about Windows 10 updates interrupting activity X and taking Y hours> Which has happened to me. And seemingly many others on the 'net. > Whatever you're doing, it's not typical. That's what I'm trying to figure out. I was under the impression that running Steam games (on my personal machine) or Eclipse (in my professional Windows experience) were more or less the happy path for the use cases of gaming and development respectively.
- wvenable 7y ago
  People who don't have any problems don't shout it from the rooftops. They just go about their day quietly and contently. And if you start looking around, you'll notice that people complain about Mac OS stability and Linux stability all the time too. It's pretty hard to gauge reality this way.
fhood 7y ago
It varies. I have two windows 10 machines that I use regularly. My personal desktop, which has been perhaps the most reliable and consistent computer I have ever owned, and my work PC, which recently attempted to update outlook, and in the process fucked my hard drive beyond recovery.
- UnFleshedOne 7y ago
  Your harddrive probably just died a while ago and nobody noticed before outlook started rocking the boat and found that the water is not there anymore.
ssully 7y ago
We probably have similar setups. Built my current desktop 6 years ago starting with Windows 7. Use it mainly for playing games, but also for hobby software developer (so a plethora of software dev software and virtual machines). I have a the exact same OS upgrade pattern as you and also never have had to reinstall or have an update fail.
AsyncAwait 7y ago
> Whatever you're doing, it's not typical. When someone's describing a completely untypical break scenario on a Linux desktop thread, it not being typical is dismissed by Windows users as not a valid response. Funny how that works.

charlesdaniels 7y ago

> This is really the norm. Again anecdotally; most of my friend group (professional developers and CS students) who run Windows seem to constantly complain about performance issues and bugs (UI issues, not sleeping correctly on laptops, etc.). I don't think anyone has ever said "hey guys, come check out this slick new feature" or really anything positive at all about it. > No update issues. <insert anecdote about Windows 10 updates interrupting activity X and taking Y hours> Which has happened to me. And seemingly many others on the 'net. > Whatever you're doing, it's not typical. That's what I'm trying to figure out. I was under the impression that running Steam games (on my personal machine) or Eclipse (in my professional Windows experience) were more or less the happy path for the use cases of gaming and development respectively.

wvenable 7y ago
People who don't have any problems don't shout it from the rooftops. They just go about their day quietly and contently. And if you start looking around, you'll notice that people complain about Mac OS stability and Linux stability all the time too. It's pretty hard to gauge reality this way.

fhood 7y ago

It varies. I have two windows 10 machines that I use regularly. My personal desktop, which has been perhaps the most reliable and consistent computer I have ever owned, and my work PC, which recently attempted to update outlook, and in the process fucked my hard drive beyond recovery.

UnFleshedOne 7y ago
Your harddrive probably just died a while ago and nobody noticed before outlook started rocking the boat and found that the water is not there anymore.

ssully 7y ago

We probably have similar setups. Built my current desktop 6 years ago starting with Windows 7. Use it mainly for playing games, but also for hobby software developer (so a plethora of software dev software and virtual machines). I have a the exact same OS upgrade pattern as you and also never have had to reinstall or have an update fail.

AsyncAwait 7y ago

> Whatever you're doing, it's not typical. When someone's describing a completely untypical break scenario on a Linux desktop thread, it not being typical is dismissed by Windows users as not a valid response. Funny how that works.