Windows 10

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  1. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  2. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Supposed to be good. Perhaps 10 will be to 8 what 7 was to Vista.

    I hate Win8; it practically bricked a new Toshiba laptop that came with it installed. I'm hoping an upgrade to Win10 will fix that.
     
  3. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    I switched to Apple after Win8. Never looked back.
     
  4. airtorn

    airtorn Moderator

    Agreed. I am still using Windows 7 on my laptop. My wife has Windows 8 on her laptop and using it is pretty rough.
     
  5. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    I've watched people trying to use 8. Not for me! 7 is OK but they took out some things I liked. 7 has no command-line editor, something I've always used, from DOS days to XP. Also, some of my very old (3.1) Windows programs still work fine on XP but not on 7. At home, I use XP and various Linux distros. I have also recently revived a 1988 Sharp laptop - DR-DOS 3.41 and 2 floppy-drives (720K). I have any amount of software for it and a couple of months ago bought some never-opened boxes of 720K floppies in the Salvation Army for $1 per box (10). Just for kicks, I am running the world's oldest PC spreadsheet, VisiCalc (1981) and other ancient programs on the XP machine - under VDos, a relatively new (free) program which enables full-screen (1366x768 in my case) display of DOS programs, in perfect aspect ratio with clear crisp fonts - as we never saw them on our old CRT monitors!

    J.
     
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  6. RacerBoy

    RacerBoy New Member

    Not yet. I am still on Windows 7. Enjoying a lot using this Windows 7 service.
     
  7. japhy4529

    japhy4529 House Bassist

    Ditto - except I switched to Apple (macbook pro) after the Vista debacle. I couldn't be more happy. I never have to worry about my laptop. It just works!
     
  8. RAM PhD

    RAM PhD Member

    Windows 10? I'm currently using Windows 8.

    Did I miss Windows 9?
     
  9. Koolcypher

    Koolcypher Member

    :You_Rock_Emoticon::You_Rock_Emoticon:

    I myself use a Mac and could not be happier.:banana:
     
  10. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    No. I think Microsoft wants to really put some distance between itself and Win8.
     
  11. TonyM

    TonyM Member

    I've already upgraded to the Windows 10 preview and it's pretty nice. I didn't mind Windows 8 once they upgraded it to 8.1, though. I use Windows 7 at work, but it's starting to seem a bit dated.

    For most things, though, I used Xubuntu and the rest of the family uses Chromebooks, both of which are very reliable and easy to fix if something does go wrong.
     
  12. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I've used Linux for a long time with no regrets. But Windows 7 is also fine, 8.1 is much better than 8, and I'm willing to see about 10.

    I use keyboard shortcuts a great deal, though, and since those work differently on Macs (for no reason I can see), I find them unusable.
     
  13. RAM PhD

    RAM PhD Member

    Let me ask you guys a few questions. I'm eligible for the free Windows 10 upgrade on both my PC and laptop when it's released on July 29.

    1. Is this free upgrade the full Windows 10 OS?

    2. Does this free upgrade allow one to use the full Windows 10 OS for a limited time and then one has to pay for the OS? Or is it free to use as though you indefinitely as if one bought the product at full price?

    3. Would you go ahead and download Windows 10 and begin using it the day it's released, or wait a few months to give Microsoft time to work through some of the bugs?
     
  14. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  15. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Unless your computer doesn't work properly the way it is, what reason is there not to wait a long, long time before upgrading?
     
  16. airtorn

    airtorn Moderator

    Agreed. My current laptop works fine with 7. I don't see a reason to update to 10.
     
  17. TonyM

    TonyM Member

    It might be wise to let Windows 10 have a few updates before upgrading. As I recall, Microsoft finds and fixes a lot of bugs after a release. Windows 8 was terrible at first, but got quite a bit better over time and then made a big leap with Windows 8.1.
     
  18. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    I have a mini-laptop that I don't use much. I'm thinking of downloading 10 on that ddevice and checking it out there. It seems lower risk.
     
  19. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Anyone download it yet?
     
  20. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

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