Windows 10: View Poll Results: Staying with Windows 10 or not?

In my experience, for compatibility, it's best to have a run of the mill computer made with popular components , fairly new but not a bleeding edge. That way, drivers that are most essential part of OS are practically assured and so is smooth OS installation and maximum functionality.
Brand name manufacturers of ready made computers, almost always tend to put something "special" in their machines that requires their own drivers and programs but almost invariably lack at updating same drivers and programs if at all.
That's for desktop computers of course. Starting with laptops, where customizing is very limited and going on to tablets and further, there's no much choice and compatibility is in question if more than one generation older. They better stay with original OS or be prepared for a fight.

 

I will stay with Windows 10. It was difficult installing it. However, the problem was not with this OS; it was with the incompatibilities carried over from Windows 7.

Although I will not use all of the features offered by W10, there are many new ones that appear to be quite good.

The speed of functions and especially startup and power down are excellent. I also like the menu design.

All in all, I am pleased to have upgraded to W10.

 

Lots of positive posts here and it is great to read.

However, I downloaded 10 onto my HP laptop...a 2 1/2 hour download (plus all the software and driver updates) but kept 8.1 on my My Dell XPS One 2720 touchscreen. All went okay for a few days and then things started to go adrift. Things like logging in on my laptop and Settings changing on both machines of their own accord. I was spending hours each day trying to resolve these issues and then I took the decision to re-install 8.1 on my laptop.

One thing I have learned from this 'bad experience' is now thanks to the adverse situations and the great advise from members of this Forum, I now have a better understanding of Settings and how to resolve issues.

Will I return to 10? Probably yes, but not until the 'teething' issues have been resolved and I can get a disc Installation copy of 10 free of charge. The cost of Mobile Broadband downloads is extortionate to the point of it being almost as cheap, easier, faster and more reliable to install by Disc.

 

What settings changed? The OneDrive Sync function can cause some things to change across multiple PC's.

 

I have upgrade my Surface 3 to 10 Home and my main PC from Vista to 10 Pro (via 7). I have experienced pros and cons on both computers and some minor glitches, but no show stoppers. I have worked through most of the issues on the main PC except for the Metro menus/text in Start and Cortana becoming corrupt after a few hours. I restart explorer.exe and all is good for another few hours. I have had no compatibility issues with programs or apps and I find some of them are working better. However I *think* my USB 3.0 stuff is running a bit slower but I have no concrete proof.

So far I'm going to stick with 10 and going to ride out the minor issues.

 

I think your system recommendations are a little too heavy for most users. I have a "big" system by your definition, but I also have a 2007 vintage laptop with a Core 2 duo and Windows 10 is pretty nimble on it. The vintage of the hardware is a factor but not drastically so for me. I wouldn't worry overmuch about the computer's resources. A user has what he has and running out for new hardware is not usually a comfortable option, except for classic desktop users.

Windows 10 Pro runs well even in a vm with only 2GB of ram. I do agree that a clean install can really perk up a system that has accumulated 200 or 300GB of "stuff" but my experience has been that performance isn't all that bad with such a system as long as I had been doing regular maintenance with previous OS.

I used Reset this PC on one "old timer" and a clean install on another. Old habit.

 

I have nearly the exact same experience with my laptop, 2 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo processor.

You don't need scads of RAM and a high-powered processor to benefit from W10.

 

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Agreed. My twin 7 years old run as fast as the wind blows, with ssd hard drives. What more can I ask for.

 

For now it is Windows 7, 10 and Xubuntu. I don't know which I use the most. I am still testing others distros to see if I like any others better.

 

I've been a MS loyalist since the early 90's. The first upgrade I ever did was in dos, went from 6.0 to 6.2 and the upgrade came on one 3.5" floppy. I still have this dos box set up in its original configuration, duel floppies and a massive 420 MB hard drive, to remind me of how far we have come in home computing. I have upgraded the OS on my computers every time a new version was released. For me Windows 8 was a disaster and this is coming from someone who liked Windows ME. After the Win 8 fiasco and subsequent 8.1 I lost interest in upgrading and reverted back to Win 7 on my two main computers and left the forums for awhile. MS made a brilliant move to push Windows 10 through auto updates and give it away for free otherwise I would not have tried it. Two weeks ago I said what the hell and registered for a free copy, fast forward two weeks, I've upgraded three computers and clean installed on one of them. All I can say about Windows 10 is "Bitches I'm Back"

 

groze you sound a bit like me. Although I have a "Main OS" which is Win10 now, that is totally and thoroughly setup, I get bored with using the same desktop day after day and like to slip into a different OS for change or test the alpha & beta stages...

 

I upgraded 3 devices to Windows 10. I tried to perform a clean install on my desktop and it wouldn't activate. I followed all the step laid out in the tutorial but never worked. I contacted MS Support, that was a mistake, all I got was someone reading a script to me. Gave me no explanation for the problem. I requested to get my case escalated to a MS engineer and they refused.

I read on the MS Community Forum that this is a known problem but got no help there.

I went back and reinstalled Win 8.1, took no updates and upgraded to Win 10. I guess that will be as close to a clean install I'll get for now.

 

When asked for the key:

• Skip
• Skip
• Later?

 

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