Windows 10: Is Windows 10 stable enough for main desktop?

Just my two Euro cents:

The Windows 10 Tech Preview is a surprisingly stable and "ready to run" OS considering it's just a pre-release version. I have it as the main and only OS on three rigs, one desktop and two laptops since the October 1st, heavy daily use and not a single issue (not counting some cosmetics). I am extremely happy with it and will no longer use the "old" Windows 8.1. All three computers found and installed all drivers, I only had to install the finger print reader drivers to laptops manually.

Just a few minutes ago I replied to an XP Mode issue on Seven Forums taking screenshots from XP Mode installed on Windows 7 virtual machine running in Hyper-V on Windows 10 laptop *Smile. That's how good this works.

I've had no crashes, no BSOD, all my software has installed without issues, only one of my Windows 8.1 Modern Apps does not work (news app from a Finnish newspaper).

 

Yeah, I wouldn't read too much into the listed expiry date. They had to pick a date at some point. It could likely change too if you upgrade to a newer preview release. I bet they could change it with a Windows update/patch. lol, the release date for the finale version of 10 could change too, and likely will several times.

 

I just installed it on a 8 year old dell laptop ,and it seems to work ok, its missing a few drivers

 

My main concern that there will be very few drivers at the moment.

 

My current 8.1 drivers worked fine for me. AMD CCC and NVidia video drivers for example were fine. The only issue I had was with an older VIA onboard audio on one of my desktops. I had to run the installer as admin to get it to work correctly.

 

If you don't have driver issues with your 8.1 setup, I don't think you'll have issues with WTP.
Windows found all my drivers.

 

I wish that were true. *Sad
My HP desktop just would not do W10 as an upgrade, never completed the install. Had to go to dual-boot with a virgin W10 and build from there.
But I think some are missing the issue with making it a daily driver and that is even if it works now as the dd, will the next build or the ones after that exhibit that same performance?
MS has been pretty careful in what they say about the TP.
But if you keep your data live backed up, then it should be doable with the caution that things could change for the worse.

 

Upgrade installs always have something wrong. Clean install is less problematic.

 

While that may be true, it is a cop out imo. It is a poor comment on an OS and a real PITA for the end user to have to redo all the apps and drivers and setups.
I've done upgrade installs almost every time with Windows various versions and all the OSX versions along the way with so few issues it isn't an issue at all.
I understand that the tech preview may not be ready enough for that though. But when the release comes out, it darned well better be.

 

I did the upgrade,over win7,used a usb and ran it from the desktop ,but I had only installed win7 a few days ago,but the few programs I had installed are still there and working

 

PHEW!*Rolleyes

Rich

 

I upgraded my Acer 5532 Laptop from 8.1.1 to 10 TP by mounting the iso under 8.1.1 then starting the upgrade from there. No DVD or flash drive required. Worked great. ALL drivers good and ALL installed software still works.

AMD 1.6Ghz TF-20 Processor
4GB Ram
64 bit 8.1.1 to 64 bit 10 TP

 

Hi there

Not necessarily true.

There could be later builds -- I'm sure some people will remember the various builds that came out when W7 was being developed.
The current build could also be given an update which prolongs it.

Ms though this time seems to have got its internal security sorted out as there's been pretty well nothing seen "out in the Wild". There must be some internal builds being worked on.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Hi there

You *Might* have some problems in April when the preview Runs out -- you'll either have to revert back to W8.1 or spend a boodle of dosh on buying several Windows Licenses --the FREE preview doesn't last forever !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

 

EDIT **** To clarify, April 15th is only the Consumer Preview release date and not that of the RTM. ****

Oh really? I thought that seemed to be a short time window (six months) to finish an OS.

I thought larger updates were going to be applied week after week, basically morphing the OS into something different as time moved along. Nothing really seems to have changed yet.

So far, I actually still prefer Windows 8.1 with a Start Menu replacement app in use. I'm not big on Windows 10's Start Menu implementation, and I have no use for multiple desktops (I even disable them on Linux builds). So for now, what does 10 improve on for me?
*Smile