Your Experience On Windows 10 So Far

[grana92]

Hello everyone, so I wanted to hear from you guys about the 10.. What's your experience, is it really a worthy upgrade from Windows 7?

From my experience; the upgrade went fairly smooth.. had some weird issues but it was pretty straight forward, nothing serious. After the final boot the OS was acting weird but that's probably because of the drivers and it took a little bit for everything to settle down. The only actual issue I had was when I tried to put World Of WarCraft to fullscreen, but it turns out there was a bug in the game itself and that was fixed in five minutes.

Basically, when you remove all the pre-installed apps that you will never use and disable some of the also useless features, you get a "updated" Windows 7, with a newer UI.

A pleasant surprise was the improvement in gaming performance, The FPS on all games I tried was improved by about 15-25%. Also the shut down time is very short but I'm not sure anyone cares about that. On the other hand, the boot up time is not significantly improved, maybe a second or two faster on an SSD.

In conclusion; my experience with Windows 10 Home x64 is positive. Although I miss the look of Windows 7, this one is in my opinion a worthy upgrade.

What do you guys think? Please, share your experience.

 

[Eric Bentsen]

If there's a total worldwide financial collapse this year, I don't think I could afford Windows 10 next year. How about you?

 

[Marc Isikoff]

I did a dual-boot Win10 and Win8.1 Pro and both on SSDs in the PC. I took a Win7 and upgraded to Win10, then added Win 8.1 Pro so UEFI was easier.

Anyway, I lean more toward Win 8.1 and here's why:

1. I have an HTPC with minimal data on it and 8.1's "metro" start screen isn't half bad on my 42" TV
2. Windows Media Center works right out of the gate on 8.1 although it needed a hosts file update for the TV guide change, the Win10 O/S needs a hacked V6 of the Win8's WMC and that's very suspect as per my testing.
3. Apps: I find no difference in Win10's apps vs Win8's. And with MSFT making the boast of more apps, I really could care less as we want the apps we want and don't care how many there are. If you can get all yours you want, do you really care if there's 20 more or 10k more?
4. Neithed OS boots faster than each other. I get the dual-boot in about 5 sec and instantly it will load to the login screen on either after I choose 8.1 vs 10
5. Less spying on me in Win8.1. Win10 has some ugly abilties to spy on your software.
6. I have no other Windows product so the Win10 ecosystem is unappealing with no Win phone or tablet. I might get a Surface Pro 4 but I don't think that *needs* to connect with one's Win10 desktop.
7. No driver issues in Win8.1 for my hardware setup. I've had issues with my sound and NVidia drivers in Win10, but not so in Win8.1