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Whatever. 7 people in my office just upgraded from 7/8.1 in under a hour with all their documents, programs and settings unchanged and then continued working l
by ladzoppelin 11y ago
Whatever. 7 people in my office just upgraded from 7/8.1 in under a hour with all their documents, programs and settings unchanged and then continued working like normal. That's unreal considering how many different hardware combinations exist. People seem to like it and its only going to get better.
- rhodysurf 11y agoJust did the same on my work computer. And its working incredibly well too. Every program works fine and it only took an hour
- electic 11y agoI think it has been documented quite well the settings have changed and they have introduced a slew of very unsettling new settings that many view as a security and privacy concern.
- Kenji 11y agoYeah, exactly. Try that with a Linux version upgrade (e.g. Ubuntu), hahaha.
- marcosdumay 11y agoWhat? I upgraded a Debian machine just last month. Had to reboot it.
- DrJokepu 11y agoThere was a time when this was true, but this is not how it works anymore.
- seba_dos1 11y agoMy Debian installation has been being updated for years now and went through three different machines, all without any bigger issues. It's also worth noting that this is a version called "unstable".
- Zancarius 11y agoUnrelated, but I've often found that upgrading hardware is usually easier to do when you're running Linux, and it complains far less. I run Arch primarily, though, so I don't think my commentary with regards to upgrade processes is worth much--being a rolling release distro, it's always in a state of flux so there's no real "major" upgrade unless I've forgotten to run updates for a month or two. That said, I have updated (dist-upgrade) recent (12.04+) Ubuntu installs more or less unattended with no trouble. So I think the OP was probably a troll. My existing (home) Arch install has survived through a couple different hard drives, copied over directly from a USB stick, with various hardware changes off and on since. Prior to that, I've had Gentoo and Ubuntu installs persist across substantial hardware changes mostly unscathed (Gentoo required preparations beforehand, mostly because I was an idiot and did extensive kernel customizations I probably didn't need). I don't understand the trolling, though. There are far too many variables that might affect one particular OS/hardware combination more than others, and that's to say nothing of PEBKAC-related issues...
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- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoEspecially when you consider that most people here, at least in their personal lives probably don't run Windows as their primary OS (I'm willing to bet dollars to doughnuts). Surely we've moved past 2002 era Slashdot polemics.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoWhat a nonsensical attitude. Ostensibly, any "bashing Windows for UI/Updates/Privacy/whatever reasons" (which is an extremely odd way to say "criticism of Windows") is now equivalent to a Slashdot polemic? Programming is the only technical field I know where this anti-intellectual sentiment of shutting off criticism and resorting to slogans like "If you don't like it, don't use it!" and "I don't care about X, it works for me!" is somehow considered acceptable.
- jusuchin 11y agoAre you serious?
- bargl 11y agoI just went and updated all my privacy options on windows 10. I'm actually REALLY surprised at how granular it feels. Just press windows type privacy and shut everything down if you want.
- jmanderley 11y agoExcept you can't shut down everything - it's impossible to disable the sending of "Diagnostic and usage data" in anything but Win 10 Enterprise, for example.
- wtallis 11y agoThere really isn't that much complexity from different hardware configurations. Almost all computers can be covered by drivers for AHCI,EHCI,xHCI,HDAudio, and vendor-specific drivers for graphics and network. There's no longer any need to worry about interrupt sharing or other conflicts between subsystems, so introducing new alternatives doesn't have a multiplicative effect.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoWarning: VirtualBox doesn't work in Windows 10. We're a very Vagrant-dependent shop here, so one of my coworkers was forced to spend his entire day in meetings rather than doing real work.
- Zikes 11y agoThat must be hardware dependent, I was able to fire up VirtualBox and resume working in a Linux VM immediately after upgrading.
- bargl 11y agoThanks for the heads up that's going to be a big deal for developers. I'm sure it'll get fixed. This is probably why our IT folks don't want us jumping on the newest OS right after deployment, even though I did it for my personal machine.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoYes, it's fixed in SVN, supposedly.
- wcoenen 11y agoWindows development is version controlled with Source Depot (a Perforce customization for Microsoft). Not SVN.
- tdicola 11y agoIs it really that surprising in an office environment? They're probably all using the same model of computer that was purchased around the same time and from a reputable vendor like Dell, etc. If you read the article though you would see this person's complaints are not with the upgrade process but with the memory usage, touch interface, and other behavior of Windows 10.
- batou 11y agoConversely it hosed my test machine (a clone of my main one). I would never risk a shotgun upgrade; I can't afford to lose a day fixing it. YMMV basically.