Topic: Windows 10, yes or no?

[Jack]

No. A thousand times no.

Did you know that microsoft has embedded an extra cryptokey in windows, called _NSAKEY, since the 90's? Anyone want to guess what kind of surprises they planted in the age of CISA?

I agree with selmiak, IMO the wise person is looking to switch to linux (Mint, Ubuntu...), not windows 10.

Consider that the adoption rate for windows 8 is pretty much the worst ever. So bad the replacement has to be free. Is there any software out there that works only on windows 8 that you simply must have? I doubt it. If software creators weren't put off by the OS itself, they certainly were by the adoption numbers. How will microsoft recover from this, when pretty much everything you hear about their new OS is pure evil?

[magintz]

I'm in the Yes column. It's prettier, easier to use, i can carry out my daily workflows a lot easier; searching and navigating especially.

[mkennedy]

How big is it? From what I've been told Windows 8 is over 100 gigabytes so will Windows 10 be bigger still?

[Gurok]

Wow! No, Windows 8 and Windows 10 are both about 20GB installed. And that's with Explorer double counting directories that are junctioned. Where'd you get that information from? A 100GB drive sounds like a reasonable minimum capacity to recommend, but Windows itself certainly doesn't take up that much.

[LimpingFish]

How will microsoft recover from this, when pretty much everything you hear about their new OS is pure evil?

By way of the 8th Dimension?

I am not frightened by Windows 10.

[mkennedy]

Guess I misheard, though 20 gigs is still quite large. [old man rant] Oh how I miss the good old days where programs were distributed on physical media that you could install it from instead of having everything downloaded now. [end rant]

[Gurok]

20GB was my estimate of the installation size. The download size is probably closer to 3-4GB.

[LimpingFish]

The download size is probably closer to 3-4GB.

2,706.1MB, to be exact.

[portableTaco]

Yes for me.  I've had it for many months now and really like it over 8.1.  It seems faster to me, and I've already loaded it up with tons of audio DAW stuff, photo editing junk, programming languages here and there, and all seems pretty solid. No issues with any drivers from 8.1 either, it all just works just as well if not better. 

[Domino]

I have a computer running Windows 7 and everything is working fine. Last week I decided to try out Windows 10 and my computer became very unstable and everything was locking up and not responding. I met all of the requirements to run Windows 10, but after about an hour of frustration, reverted back to to Windows 7.

[qptain Nemo]

Well, seeing as I've completely switched to exclusively using Linux with absolutely no regrets, it's an easy nope for me.

[Ibispi]

I agree with the captain. Linux is the only salvation in these dark times.
It's even more free than windows 10, and way better.
All aboard the ship Linux! Hippity hip hooray!

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Windows 10, no

[Peder 🚀]

As I'm 99% of the time using linux on my desktop computer (I installed Windows 7 on a dedicated SSD purely for music recording as I've spent some cash into software that sadly only works on windows) it's an easy no for me too!
Especially since the 1% I use Windows is for music recording, I'd rather not install a windows version that might fuck up the only stuff I need it for in the first place :p

[donkeymilk]

I installed it on a 30gb partition and it takes up about 15gb with a few redists installed.

It does a lot of spying  and collects and phones home a lot of info about you ,even when you tell it not to.

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/

Best to start win10 in offline mode if poss.

 Here's a few new and useful  programs that are starting to appear:
Debloat-Windows-10

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

Disable Win Tracking v 1.5

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking/releases/latest

Destroy Windows 10 Spying!

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5054236

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. https://twitter.com/nummerok/

DoNotSpy10

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. http://pxc-coding.com/blog/donotspy10-1000/

[Jack]

By way of the 8th Dimension?

I am not frightened by Windows 10.

Most people are not frightened by excrement.

I just don't want to get any on me.