New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast + Skip Build 18290 (19H1) -Nov. 28  

All good here...

Done in 45 minutes without any problems.

Nothing else to report yet But I really hope that it fixed my installation problem I was having.

Pretty consistent, the other computer even though it is a complete different beast it concluded it's update in 46 minutes exactly.

18290 was installed after 2 unsuccessful bounces. Used Ten Forums WU Cleaner and rebooted after removing all USB external devices. Same procedure I had to use before the last 18282 update which worked perfectly. During the second bounce download I noticed a lot of disk activity on my second Win 7 Dual Boot SSD as well as the Win 10 SSD. I don't remember this in the past.

WEK

- all good here..

created the windows 10 pro iso after an apparent install but the VM restarted into 18272. It is reinstalling now but meanwhile uploading the iso to one drive. Windows 10 Enterprise is getting ready. Windows 10 for Workstations is checking for the update.

Looks like I will need to delete Onedrive from the virtual hard disk in order to upgrade. Otherwise not enough disk space - this is why the first restart failed. Naturally I will wait for the upload of the iso to finish. It's annoying but not as bad as if it were my "real" hard disk.

Working with VMware 15 (which I got a pretty good deal with the Black Friday discount and, surplringly, Honey found a coupon so the upgrade was less than 90 bucks). Using Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco). Trying to decide between Fedora 30 Silverblue and openSUSE Tumbleweed as my 2nd Linux distro. A pleasant quandary actually.





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sgage said:

You know, it seems to me that at this point most people are not clamoring for new 'wow' features - quite the opposite. The consensus seems to be, even here on this forum: 'c'mon MS, slow down, forget new features, fix bugs, make it solid and reliable'. I sure don't feel a need for new features. It's an OS - let the applications get new features. Let the OS be a solid and dependable foundation.

You are entitled to your opinion, but I cannot agree.

A balance can be struck - each build should have some new features or else the Insider Programme just loses its point.

The Programme was instigated to help the development of Windows 10 not just so we can act as unpaid beta testers. I am not interested in that.

A good approach would be to permanently split the Fast Ring and Skip Ahead, and the Fast Ring focusses more on stability but Skip Ahead focusses on development.

Then after six months Skip Ahead moves onto Fast Ring for six months of stabilisation. This means we still get new features but on a rolling basis.

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks

@martyfelker

why not run both !!!


As far as the other argument about windows features :

I'll take the middle ground on this

both view points are equally valid -- when I'm doing (hopefully) a professional job on a clients site or doing some serious photography with photoshop / lightroom etc then I want a slick professional looking OS with none of those gimmicky tiles or other things that get in the way -- i.e a fairly boring looking but functional OS.

On a private machine at home that I'm just "playing around with" then some of those so called gimmicky things can be quite fun. I know a load here also use Linux -- it's the same here - use different distros for different purposes -- for a NAS I use Centos - plain, absolutely solid and 100% reliable but possibly boring -- for a bit of "razmataz" I play around with Linux Mint or Ubuntu.

So nothing wrong with both aspirations for Windows -- in any case isn't a "skip ahead" just the place to test out new features anyway.

I do think though Windows professional should come out of the box as essentially geared for professional users and home could have all the added "special features" - rather than just have home as essentially a stripped down version of Pro -- that's a marketing issue though and I'm sure Ms didn't get to be the richest company (by share capital / stock valuation) in the world just because apple is beginning to make some errors.

Cheers
jimbo

Actually, I would propose a "Business" version, a Pro stripped from all bells and whistles and just essentials specially store and APPs other than some essential like Calculator, Word pad and some like that.