So I recently did a nice little upgrade of my laptop.
I ended up getting a dell g5 laptop intel i7 9750H and rtx 2060 6gb, and 16gb ram.
So the laptop comes installed (like most all laptops do as far as I am aware of) windows 10 Home.
My main beef with home is there is no way to disable the MS updates completely, you can only delay them, but eventually they get installed. In windows 10 pro you have gpedit where you can disable the updates completely and only do manual updates if you choose to.
Why is this such a big deal you may ask? well I remember at one time MS had a patch out that was actually deleting files off of people hard drive, and it was totally random with multiple people, some lost pics, some lost files, etc.....so it was not just a specific thing, MS recognized AND confirmed yes it was a problem and was happening and removed the patch off the their site. So with disabled updates I or anyone else could have avoided the incident from happening. I did not have this happen but I do have a friend that it did happen to, and he was NOT happy at all, and rightly so.
So fast forward to today, and the dell laptop. I proceeded to install pro instead of home, but sadly the nvidia video drivers say it wasn't support by this system .
So I guess I'm asking is, am I doomed as a laptop user to be stuck with windows home for the duration of every laptop coming out, or this a dell laptop specific thing? Can I return this and get an msi and be ok?
I currently have a 2 yr old acer that has win 10 pro on it, and has had no issues, and had no issues installing drivers.
It makes me think it's a manufacturer thing (Dell) as apposed to a laptop issue, correct me if I'm wrong please.
I ended up getting a dell g5 laptop intel i7 9750H and rtx 2060 6gb, and 16gb ram.
So the laptop comes installed (like most all laptops do as far as I am aware of) windows 10 Home.
My main beef with home is there is no way to disable the MS updates completely, you can only delay them, but eventually they get installed. In windows 10 pro you have gpedit where you can disable the updates completely and only do manual updates if you choose to.
Why is this such a big deal you may ask? well I remember at one time MS had a patch out that was actually deleting files off of people hard drive, and it was totally random with multiple people, some lost pics, some lost files, etc.....so it was not just a specific thing, MS recognized AND confirmed yes it was a problem and was happening and removed the patch off the their site. So with disabled updates I or anyone else could have avoided the incident from happening. I did not have this happen but I do have a friend that it did happen to, and he was NOT happy at all, and rightly so.
So fast forward to today, and the dell laptop. I proceeded to install pro instead of home, but sadly the nvidia video drivers say it wasn't support by this system .
So I guess I'm asking is, am I doomed as a laptop user to be stuck with windows home for the duration of every laptop coming out, or this a dell laptop specific thing? Can I return this and get an msi and be ok?
I currently have a 2 yr old acer that has win 10 pro on it, and has had no issues, and had no issues installing drivers.
It makes me think it's a manufacturer thing (Dell) as apposed to a laptop issue, correct me if I'm wrong please.