Your Experience with Windows 10

[ToineF]

"ugly" is relative for me.

Who have familiarized (or still using it until now) with Win XP. will think if Win 7 is "ugly". It looks confusing and makes you got headache coz of the transparent window borders called "aero".

Who have familiarized with Win 7. will think if Win 8 is "ugly, weird". and maybe some of them asked for "where is the aero glass???", "where is the START menu", "why the icon looks blocky and flat" because of the new "Metro UI".

Same with Win 10. Win 7 and 8 users will surprised to see how "ugly" it is.

They need a "familiarization" from old computing era to the newer ones.
For me. Win 10 is BEAUTIFUL, I use it on my 2-in-1 notebook. And Win 7 is ROBUST, I use it on my home PC.
Not the 10, neither 7 ugly for me. Coz i familiar with both of them. Best of both worlds.

Stockholm syndrome?

 

[Guest]

"ugly" is relative for me.

Who have familiarized (or still using it until now) with Win XP. will think if Win 7 is "ugly". It looks confusing and makes you got headache coz of the transparent window borders called "aero".

Who have familiarized with Win 7. will think if Win 8 is "ugly, weird". and maybe some of them asked for "where is the aero glass???", "where is the START menu", "why the icon looks blocky and flat" because of the new "Metro UI".

Same with Win 10. Win 7 and 8 users will surprised to see how "ugly" it is.

They need a "familiarization" from old computing era to the newer ones.
For me. Win 10 is BEAUTIFUL, I use it on my 2-in-1 notebook. And Win 7 is ROBUST, I use it on my home PC.
Not the 10, neither 7 ugly for me. Coz i familiar with both of them. Best of both worlds.

Stockholm syndrome?

I think he just stated what people with different opinions from you want to say. You are trying to convince people to believe a FACT based on YOUR opinion. Is being ugly or beautiful an opjective perspective?

 

[ToineF]

"ugly" is relative for me.

Who have familiarized (or still using it until now) with Win XP. will think if Win 7 is "ugly". It looks confusing and makes you got headache coz of the transparent window borders called "aero".

Who have familiarized with Win 7. will think if Win 8 is "ugly, weird". and maybe some of them asked for "where is the aero glass???", "where is the START menu", "why the icon looks blocky and flat" because of the new "Metro UI".

Same with Win 10. Win 7 and 8 users will surprised to see how "ugly" it is.

They need a "familiarization" from old computing era to the newer ones.
For me. Win 10 is BEAUTIFUL, I use it on my 2-in-1 notebook. And Win 7 is ROBUST, I use it on my home PC.
Not the 10, neither 7 ugly for me. Coz i familiar with both of them. Best of both worlds.

Stockholm syndrome?

I think he just stated what people with different opinions from you want to say. You are trying to convince people to believe a FACT based on YOUR opinion. Is being ugly or beautiful an opjective perspective?

Very few people have stated that they find windows beautiful. Most of people have said that windows is fine and it gets the job done. Fair enough, but i am sayiong here that it's not beautiful and it lacks in design sense.

As a matter of fact even the CEO of microsoft said that people should start 'loving' windows. It wont be done with an OS that 'gets the job done'

Windows needs a serious design upgrade quick. Otherwise they will start loosing even more people.

 

[nukemaster]

Design is and has always been a matter of taste. No one is right and no one is wrong in this case.

It is Functional and I do not even use start for anything, but search.
Still not a fan of the ribbon, but sometimes it works pretty well when you get used to it.

 

[alth0triplemadang]

"ugly" is relative for me.

Who have familiarized (or still using it until now) with Win XP. will think if Win 7 is "ugly". It looks confusing and makes you got headache coz of the transparent window borders called "aero".

Who have familiarized with Win 7. will think if Win 8 is "ugly, weird". and maybe some of them asked for "where is the aero glass???", "where is the START menu", "why the icon looks blocky and flat" because of the new "Metro UI".

Same with Win 10. Win 7 and 8 users will surprised to see how "ugly" it is.

They need a "familiarization" from old computing era to the newer ones.
For me. Win 10 is BEAUTIFUL, I use it on my 2-in-1 notebook. And Win 7 is ROBUST, I use it on my home PC.
Not the 10, neither 7 ugly for me. Coz i familiar with both of them. Best of both worlds.

Stockholm syndrome?

No, it's not a syndrome. It's habit.

 

[logainofhades]

Windows 8, now that was ugly. 😛 Win 10 is a vast improvement, over 8. Some people like the look of XP still, over even win 7. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While I might find someone to be down right hot, another person may think they are merely ok. I highly despise apple, others love them.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Windows 8, now that was ugly. 😛 Win 10 is a vast improvement, over 8. Some people like the look of XP still, over even win 7. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While I might find someone to be down right hot, another person may think they are merely ok. I highly despise apple, others love them.

I liked XP when it came out. But now I look at it and it looks like a playschool OS.

It is funny though because at the same time I looked at Windows 95/98/2K (screw ME) and thought it looked old in design but a ton of people preferred that look.

 

[Colif]

Given a choice between Windows 3.1 and Win 10 and I know I wouldn't want the old one. Maybe cause i used every version of windows that was released to the home from 95 until now. Okay, I skipped 8.1 but I explained that already. Worst version is still ME...

 

[USAFRet]

Given a choice between Windows 3.1 and Win 10 and I know I wouldn't want the old one. Maybe cause i used every version of windows that was released to the home from 95 until now. Okay, I skipped 8.1 but I explained that already. Worst version is still ME...

At the time, 3.1 was fine.
But this is like comparing a 1930's Ford with a car of today.

(WinMe was the Edsel)

 

[logainofhades]

No, ME was the best version ever!

<Heavy dose of sarcasm>

 

[Colif]

1930's cars are worth a fortune now though, well kept ones. can't say same for win 3.1. 3.1 in its time was so much better than dos though, it had a GUI... now people take that as a given.

 

[jimmysmitty]

No, ME was the best version ever!

<Heavy dose of sarcasm>

Yea that was a fun one. Its support ended before Windows 2K. It was just a bad OS. But can't hate it too much, after all it did help pioneer a lot of features in XP that people liked.

I never understood the people who liked it though. They always said "well I just figured out how to fix the issues so it never bothered me". Basically they were fine with it because they could get it to stop crashing each time an issue popped up.

1930's cars are worth a fortune now though, well kept ones. can't say same for win 3.1. 3.1 in its time was so much better than dos though, it had a GUI... now people take that as a given.

I always tell people that buy those fancy German cars or luxury cars that they are stupid. The owner of our company bought a decked out Audi A8 that cost about $120K for him. He had it in for some maintenance work and they offered him $40K for it as a trade in.

You never invest in mass produced cars and expect to get anything but a massive loss. You buy the low production or one offs. Met a guy who paid $4K for a 1969 Ford Mustang GT500 427 Cobra Jet, basically the same car in the movie John Wick, in the 70s. It was between that or a $2K Mach 1 Fastback. The car is in near mint with all original paint, body and interior. He now has a car worth $250K easily. Not a bad investment in my eyes.

Kind of wish I was his son so he could pass it down to me...

 

[USAFRet]

1930's cars are worth a fortune now though, well kept ones. can't say same for win 3.1. 3.1 in its time was so much better than dos though, it had a GUI... now people take that as a given.

Yes, the ones that have survived. And only for nostalgia reasons.
Performance? Safety? Emissions? Comfort?
Take a 1930 anything direct off the assembly line, and compare it to just about anything today.

A 1930 Model A loses every time.


A few years ago, GrassRootsMotorports did an autocross comparison between a Porsche 356, Jag XKE, and a Honda Odyssey minivan.
2 of the quintessential sports cars of their time, and a bone stock rugrat hauler minivan.
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/soccer-moms-revenge/

Guess which was faster around the track?

Time marches on.

 

[Colif]

model t was more like a tractor though... as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0vtTmfV4wk

jump to about 1.40..

 

[Xtergo]

I have worked with a ton of computers with windows 10 including old Core2duos to Haswell core i7 and MacBooks (bootcamp) with UEFI and without on HDDs or SSDs on personal, friends and family computers all ranging from upgrades of 5 year old program infested windows 7 to Just installed 8.1 OS then upgraded or just completely fresh installs. I can confirm this by the many time I have run into issues and can safely conclude a few things I have noticed. I have don't this far too much too be proved inaccurate benchmark and tested thoroughly and I have also been confirmed by other users.

- Windows 10 behaves completely different if you upgraded from windows 7 (Worst performance overall)

- Windows behaves completely different if you upgraded from windows 8.1 ( Depends on condition or/usage)
- Windows 10 gets better in behavior if you do a reset some time after upgrading from a filthy OS.

- Windows 10 behaves completely different if you performed a fresh and clean install (Works flawlessly and most stable, Ran into allot of problems with dads laptop every week on an 8.1 system)

- Programs like CCleaner and Avast mess up Windows 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHalohZrPmc

 

[Colif]

Maybe its all the baggage that comes along with an upgrade. its definitely why its a good idea to clean install after an upgrade from win 7. All previous upgrades from one os to another needed a fresh install so nothing really changed.

I came from win 7 but pc was about 2 months old when i upgraded and even then it broke a few things. Fresh install in February fixed things i had been missing (search finally worked and knew what troubleshooters were and where to find them).

 

[logainofhades]

$120k? For like half that I could have a very well optioned powerstroke, with all the mods I would want, and get far more use/fun out of it. Wouldn't lose a ton of money on it, as it would holds its value far better, as well. A fool and his money is soon parted, I guess.

 

[TechyInAZ]

That brought back memories. Windows 2000 was the first windows OS I ever got to touch.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Maybe its all the baggage that comes along with an upgrade. its definitely why its a good idea to clean install after an upgrade from win 7. All previous upgrades from one os to another needed a fresh install so nothing really changed.

I came from win 7 but pc was about 2 months old when i upgraded and even then it broke a few things. Fresh install in February fixed things i had been missing (search finally worked and knew what troubleshooters were and where to find them).

Agree that most people with issues seem to have done the upgrade. A fresh install won't ever pose a problem.

 

[Xtergo]

Maybe its all the baggage that comes along with an upgrade. its definitely why its a good idea to clean install after an upgrade from win 7. All previous upgrades from one os to another needed a fresh install so nothing really changed.

I came from win 7 but pc was about 2 months old when i upgraded and even then it broke a few things. Fresh install in February fixed things i had been missing (search finally worked and knew what troubleshooters were and where to find them).

Agree that most people with issues seem to have done the upgrade. A fresh install won't ever pose a problem.

Like is said, a fresh Install of windows is completely different from an upgrade, you also have 10-20 fps drops on upgraded versions compared to the fresh isntall.

 

[MicroGuyCRO]

My experience with windows 10 is just excellent. I've put it up(fresh install) on my old Toshiba Satelite C650(pentium p6000,3gb ram) and it works like a charm comapared to W7 that was on it before.

 

[Mike BD]

Much better since Big Bash Week. It unifies two quite different system types. And it does that pretty well for a 1st attempt.

 

[Xtergo]

My experience with windows 10 is just excellent. I've put it up(fresh install) on my old Toshiba Satelite C650(pentium p6000,3gb ram) and it works like a charm comapared to W7 that was on it before.

It usually gives me an OCD when people have put RAM in ODD numbers, are you running 64 or 32 bit ? Might be a good and cheap idea to replace the 1GB stick with a 2GB one giving you 4GB in total, but if your okay with that its fine.

 

[Colif]

MY mums pc is running win 10 64 bit on 3gb of ram but I refuse to spend any money on giving it 1 gb as its 800mhz ram and PC has other slow parts that balance it all out.

 

[MicroGuyCRO]

My experience with windows 10 is just excellent. I've put it up(fresh install) on my old Toshiba Satelite C650(pentium p6000,3gb ram) and it works like a charm comapared to W7 that was on it before.

It usually gives me an OCD when people have put RAM in ODD numbers, are you running 64 or 32 bit ? Might be a good and cheap idea to replace the 1GB stick with a 2GB one giving you 4GB in total, but if your okay with that its fine.

Hahah that made me laugh. It originally came with 3gb and I didnt change a thing and i probably wont. Its running 64 bit version.