Windows 10: Has anyone decided to go back to 7 or 8.1?

*Ditto*Ditto*Ditto

 

MS-DOS is great! It has it's place and even I use it from time to time for non internet connected tasks. It is NO Windows, so we can't compare those two.

 

It takes me about 15 minutes to recover my OS if it is behaving badly for some reason. All software and account profile settings installed and configured as I like them.

So you mean me doing software engineering, algorithmic trading, statistical analysis and machine learning related development, does not count as real or complex enough job/work? And are you saying because of Windows 10 I can do none of that? Now you really make me laugh! HAHAHAH! *chuckle

...maybe you are right, I don't do any real work...it's my computer that does the real work for me, which is the point of me having a computer in the first place and Windows 10 among other OSes are doing their jobs just fine.

 

Ah you poor amateur !!!!

 

*Roflmao2

 

Hi Redbatman,

Windows 10 is becoming a cloud OS and i understand why microsoft is doing this,
i like to control my system and with win 10 i have no control, the desktop interface is nice looking but i see with every upgrade it's going to look more like a phone interface (i.e all the settings) very ugly.
Whith several upgrades, subtle and purpousely tricky settings microsoft has made very clear that you shoud join the cloud, and without doing so your win 10 experience will be a living hell, so yes, i reverted to win 8.1 which is the BEST microsoft OS much faster than windows 7 and much more reliable than win 10.
I have an almost brand new pc with win 10 sitting there unused till i find the time to install linux in it.

All the best!

 

I'm still on version 1607. There's no way I'm updating.

 

You don't have to connect Windows 10 to any cloud nor online account and it will work just fine. If one needs the level of control I think you are referring to, then upgrade to Pro and use group policy editor. The average Home user does not need all that fancy stuff Group Policy Editor brings and most users don't even understand all the configurations there. Settings is more than enough to configure the system.

More and more PCs are becoming touch enabled and Settings work much better for both worlds compared to Control Panel.

 

The problem is not only with all the settings i have to manage, quite cumbersome BTW, it is a matter of trust:

last time i tried to install win 10 with an offline account, during the install procedure i selected "offline account" so the install procedure warned me:

"you are about to use an offline account but windows 10 works better with an online account, would you like to proceed anyway?"

so i selected "Yes" meaning that anyway i would like to use an offline account,
nevertheless i was then asked to insert my email address to configure an online account, so i was literally tricked to use an online account.

I choose to not trust an OS that tries to trick me like this.

No man is more blind than the man who refuses to see.

 

I think you must have interpreted the dialogue wrong or something...

Because I do not want to login to my computer(s) with my Microsoft account, I ALWAYS install Windows 10 (ever since initial release of Windows 8.0 and onward, including ALL Beta releases) with an OFFLINE account, and never have I been tricked into providing any e-mail addresses anywhere. *Smile

 

Well if you think i can not grasp the meaning of a phrase in my own language, there is no point to answer me in english *Redface

 

Translations can be tricky, it may asked you to setup an E-mail account to receive E-mail and it doesn't have to be Hotmail or any MS account. I set up several.

 

This is how disinformation, so called fake news spread. Just one word falsely added to get the context to change enough to support your statement, it makes all the difference.

I use Windows on daily basis in four languages (Finnish, Swedish, English, German), five if you count UK and US English as separate languages. In addition I occasionally install it in Hyper-V in Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian to see how dialogs have changed.

None of the above mentioned language versions of Windows 10, any version and edition uses the word ANYWAY in context you told about. Quoting you:

If that was true, if that one simple word would be in that sentence, your claim would have some ground. But, as the word does not exist in dialogs shown to user who's setting up a local offline account, I can only think of you adding it on purpose to falsely support your statement.

Here's how the dialog actually looks:





There are other versions of the same dialog, one I've seen lately in some language versions having button Maybe later instead of No. Not one of them misleads or tricks user. All of them, in all languages are quite clear just wanting user to confirm he / she really wants a local account, reminding about the benefits of a Microsoft account.

A clear question: Sign in with Microsoft Instead?

Clear choices: Yes and No.

... except man who invents facts to support his opinion, refusing to see anything else.

Your time zone puts you in North or Central America. Assuming you are a native of country where you live, further assuming you are a native speaker of one of the languages covered by your given time zone, your language would be English, French or Spanish. I can provide screenshots in any of those three languages, in fact any official Windows 10 language you want to, to show you are wrong.

Please do not spread disinformation.

 

I do not know why you would think i would post something to spread disinformation, i think all my post in this forum are available and i always try to state the facts as they are.

I also do not understand what would be my gain in doing such disinformation activity (?), i may be wrong (this is not the case) and when it happens i have no problems changing my mind.

 

Hi,
@roy111, unfortunately you are wrong. No one is attacking you, just presenting you the real facts.


Cheers, *Wink