I'm done with Win10

CountMike said:

I don't know why is everybody remembering ME as bad, worked just fine for me although not for too long. It was just 98SE with some new features. Vista I almost missed, first I didn't have good enough HW and than W7 showed up.

I agree Mike... but then ME was my first Windows experience... and I'm no power-user.... so, hell even even Vista was cool for me...

emtor said:

Members here have also put in a good amount of effort in trying to help resolve my problems, but I'll get it replaced.
After all, I don't want to spend time doing troubleshooting for free and let HP off the hook.
They made it,-let them fix it.

Agreed.. too much time is spent at Redmond on Skippy instead of getting GA solid.

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks

VISTA was hated when it came out -- under the hood though it wasn't too different from W7 which most people raved about. The main problem was that for the time most hardware available wasn't "man enough" (sorry Ladies!!) for the job. Run on decent hardware it actually ran fine and is also nice as a VM - I particularly like the AERO GLASS background it had -- unfortunately W10 has gone more for the younger teen dark Distopian type of look. KDE Plasma desktop if you want to try any Linux live distros has a similar type of VISTA AERO GLASS desktop -- I rather would like to see AERO GLASS back again as an option on W10 though.

W10 itself on the whole runs fine - probably the least troublesome Windows ever considering the varied hardware it runs on and even has reasonable protection from malware etc built in. Of course nothing Software wide can be made "Idiot Proof" but using it properly you are more likely to get scammed from social media, fraudulent web sites etc than from any defect within Windows itself.

My main wish is for a serious desktop - to get rid of a load of those silly tiles and have something that looks a bit more professional looking without having to go to 3rd party hacks. Surely that type of tiling on the start screen could be made reasonably configurable.

Otherwise I'd say to Ms -- fair progress - no probs so far and I do like the addition of the Linux WSL subsystem -- messing around with that trying to get a full desktop GUI !!! I can run some GUI programs though !!

Cheers
jimbo

Yup. (.. hey I finally agreed with you!... LOL)

But yah! We need more of a collaboration between Linux and MS to make it work... Options are what most users want.. and I'm sure they will pay for it...well I will - IMHO (as always)

Superfly said:

I agree Mike... but then ME was my first Windows experience... and I'm no power-user....

Blimey, if you are not a power user, then I have no idea what constitutes a power user.

The term is complete bs really anyway.

I see loads of posts on foums where people say "I am a power user" and they do not even know how to use command prompts or simple regedits. If they are power users, they are 1.5 AAA carbon zinc battery driven .

cereberus said:

Blimey, if you are not a power user, then I have no idea what constitutes a power user.

The term is complete bs really anyway.

I see loads of posts on foums where people say "I am a power user" and they do not even know how to use command prompts or simple regedits. If they are power users, they are 1.5 AAA carbon zinc battery driven .

LOL, M... No, really... I do not dabble in all the stuff you guys do... ýour's (and others) posts are acutely interesting tho
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I am a Power User...
I get an electric bill ever month...
And it varies, depending on Use.

Kyhi said:

I am a Power User...
I get an electric bill ever month...
And it varies, depending on Use.

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks

VISTA was hated when it came out -- under the hood though it wasn't too different from W7 which most people raved about. The main problem was that for the time most hardware available wasn't "man enough" (sorry Ladies!!) for the job. Run on decent hardware it actually ran fine and is also nice as a VM - I particularly like the AERO GLASS background it had -- unfortunately W10 has gone more for the younger teen dark Distopian type of look. KDE Plasma desktop if you want to try any Linux live distros has a similar type of VISTA AERO GLASS desktop -- I rather would like to see AERO GLASS back again as an option on W10 though.

I tested Vista (and I think I remember you did too) and it was a good OS. I didn't get to use it very long, though, since Windows 7 Beta came out shortly after it was released. One thing that made Vista so unpopular was that the media jumped up and down on it and dissed it so badly that no one wanted to take a chance on it.

jimbo45 said:

My main wish is for a serious desktop - to get rid of a load of those silly tiles and have something that looks a bit more professional looking without having to go to 3rd party hacks. Surely that type of tiling on the start screen could be made reasonably configurable.

All you have to do to get rid of the silly tiles is to right click on each one and remove it. I do that every time I do a clean install. I do wish there were a way to delete all the tiles at one fell swoop, though.

jimbo45 said:

Otherwise I'd say to Ms -- fair progress - no probs so far and I do like the addition of the Linux WSL subsystem -- messing around with that trying to get a full desktop GUI !!! I can run some GUI programs though !!

Cheers
jimbo

I'm not a Linux user, although I've "looked at it" a few times. However, I like where Windows 10 is and find that I can do pretty much whatever I want to do. My needs are simple, though.

Kyhi said:

I am a Power User...
I get an electric bill ever month...
And it varies, depending on Use.

Me too, me too! Especially in the Summertime!

Wynona said:

Me too, me too! Especially in the Summertime!

I beat you all, using power tools all the time !