Windows 10 the Good, Bad and Ugly!

You found some isolated issues of people who had problems with Windows 10.

The one guy didn't have any of his passwords backed up. That is his dumbass fault.

Some people don't like the forced updates. For 99.9% of users, it's a nonissue.

I can find just as many people that say positive things about Windows 10.

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+...s+10&tbm=vid&*

You are just mad because Adobe has let down its customers by not issuing an update to CS2, and you refuse to upgrade to one of their new versions that works just fine in Windows 10.

Oh, and here are a ton of people that hate Windows 7.

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+...te+windows+7&*

And we cannot forget about the people that hate Windows XP...

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+...e+windows+xp&*


Just because someone makes a video about it doesn't mean it represents the majority's feelings.

I started back in the 90's with MS-DOS. I have at least briefly used every MS operating system since then except Vista and maybe one or two others.

In my opinion... for what I use my computer for... in my world... W10 is the best operating system I have ever used. It has worked perfectly with every one of many dozens of software programs I regularly throw at it. I have never had an issue with any updates. It is the fastest os I have ever used.

To be fair I did not watch the videos. Other people's computer problems don't usually interest me. I do know a few people that have had problems but they are always using older computers, software that isn't current, or they have tried to needlessly "customize" or tweak W10.

Ok, ok, fair point, although XP and w7 are actually the best out of the bunch, so some idiots will hate anything.

And you might see it as Adobe not issuing an update, l see it as an intentional security update that does nothing for the OS, that l can see, but it cripples cs2 every time.

Installed the update on my old Laptop, and every time without fail it stuffed it up, (worked perfectly before that).

There is big money here for Adobe, to suck up to Microsoft to cripple Adobe suite cs2, (which still costs around $2,500, updated version only, the old one isn't available anymore).

Virtually all Laptops out there with the exception of Apple, can now cripple $2,5k software within a few days of installing it. The software worked perfectly on 10, at least til the next day, and the first update was a sneaky one, l didn't even know that it did it, but the next day l could certainly see its affects.

And it stuffs up Photoshop, Illustrator.

You might see it as a harmless update, but considering how fast it crippled it, l think otherwise.

Apparently Adobe isn't doing any stand alone versions of Adobe Suite packages anymore, (no surprizes there) the latest one is all cloud only.

So l p**** away $700 a year in order to use Photoshop and illustrator, F*** that!

I got the latest Toshiba, pulled that ugly crap off, (if some users like ugly then,...more power to them) installed Windows 7 Pro, permanently turned off updates, and saved myself $2,5k!


The other thing about 10 is it spies on your every move, l guess that means that some here also like someone looking over there shoulders, and throwing advertising at them if they install something new?

After installing cs2, l had two adobe ad's pop up, every time l turned on the machine. The ad's weren't there when l installed the 1 month free trial version.

Even without the cs2 issue, navigation is clunky, having to scroll down trice for System, is annoying. Try it on 7, much better.

Try out the calculator on 10 and compare that with 7. 10 has an ugly white space around it, 7 has a beautiful transparent space around it.

I guess some will love anything that moves?

Best so far......l doubt that anyone can argue with that!

Same old same old, you hate Windows 10. Nothing new under the sun. Some people like to hear them talk. Mean while the rest of us who use 10 enjoy it. Heard the same thing to about Vista and what came out of Vista - Windows 7.

My laptop top had 8 on it and it auto updated to 10 it works better. Same with the desktop it had Windows 7 Pro on it, with upgrade to 10 already to be installed once Micro soft released it. Same thing the Windows 10 OS is better then both.

Here we go again. 10 is the last Windows, they will continually update it, upgrade it until something entirely new is created. Running Windows 7 or 8 so you can run your 11 year old version of CS2 is using a ticking timebomb. Your machine will die, support for 7 and 8 will disappear. No new machine will run it.

A few years and your stuffed and you will have to buy the new version of Adobe.

In any-case, your beef should not be with Windows/Microsoft, it should be with Adobe for charging a premium price for it, for having the audacity not to support an 11 year old version.

Thing is, it is a Premium, Professionally used product, it is the industry standard. (My wife uses the suite as a Professional Graphic Designer in the College educational system that we both work it.)

If you want it, you have to pay just like anyone else. Adobe can be excused for moving on in 11 years. Perhaps you should too.

In any case, the sort of stuff you produce for clients could easily be created using much cheaper clones that are around. You should seriously investigate some of them.

I think you are so entrenched in what you have, so locked in and so familiar with it's usage that you are scared to try anything else. Ultimately you will lose.

Get a loan save up and buy Adobe if you must have it, or pay the yearly Cloud rental fee, the way the industry is moving anyway.

But do not knock the platform it runs on. Do not take out your frustrations on Windows or Microsoft. Completely the wrong way of looking at it.

I just took the leap from Win 7 to 10. I did some research and found out that the LTSB Enterprise version is the only option for me. You can easily stop Microsoft "spying" on you. And it has no adware and bloatware you find in home and pro.

Edit: It runs perfectly on my old AMD system. No driver issues. I even installed an old Windows 7 driver for my soundcard.

Yes, it is probably the best one, but it still has fleas.

https://www.howtogeek.com/273824/win...tsb-explained/

Need to be a company with this and that to get it, but it sounds like a version that won't go into an endless loop one day?

It also is relatively crap free, (l got a fresh install of w7 pro, so no crap) but it does not stop security updates, and you have more control over data being sent to Microsoft, but not 100% control.

So there is a Rolls Royce version, but still a lemon.

A security update is the one that crippled cs2 suite, so better but....

This video pretty much sums up w10.

As l said before, 7 is the most stable one.

The blue screen of death, and other serious issues. Yes, l used it for a few days and had the blue screen one.

Also interesting what he said about Apple. Yep, l will go over to Apple in the next 7 years, unless Microsoft, gets their act together.

I do not even like the Windows platform very much, it's a lot of security flaws in front of a complicated internet. The OS is relatively secure, and Linux is a good choice for all three scenarios.

Here's what I hate about Windows 10: I want certain images to open in Irfanview, and I want PDF files to open in Adobe Reader - but no matter how I change the file associations Windows 10 always changes them back to the default app (Windows Image Viewer for images and Edge for PDF files).

This may be my last Windows computer.

Good,Bad and Ugly points of window 10 are given as:

Good:
1. Continuum
It should be no surprise that Windows 10s strongest feature is the one that Microsoft has been singing about all this time. Dubbed Continuum, it is an attempt to reconcile the disparate worlds of Windows 7 and Windows 8. In a more concrete sense, it means that there should be very little distinction between the regular win32 apps and the touch-friendly modern apps. If youre in Desktop Mode, modern apps appear inside movable and resizable windows like any other.
2. Cortana
Cortana also shines when you ask her something. What that something is almost limitless. She can do math, web queries, send e-mails by voice, etc. But probably the most important function is actually something not tied to Cortana and works even without her: search.
3. Action Center

Finally! No more wondering where that ephemeral notification went or what it was trying to say in the first place. Windows now has a place where almost all notifications are stashed away until they are ready for your attention and action.
4. Start Menu
5. Task View and Virtual Desktops
The Bad
1. Everything is new

It seems only yesterday that Windows 8 was released and yet here is Windows 10 to confound users. Well, at least now everyone is on equal footing. Those coming from Windows 7 who have never touched Windows 8 will find things both familiar and disconcerting at the same time. Those who have learned the ropes of Windows 8 will also find some common ground yet still get lost due to hard earned habits.
2. Start Menu/Screen

The new Start Menu and Start Screen are both a boon and a bane. In trying to appeal to all types of users, Microsoft may have had to make concessions. Both are but a shadow of their Windows 7 and Windows 8 counterparts, shaving off simplicity and direct accessibility for the sake of a common interaction paradigm.
3. Windows Store

The new Windows Store is shiny and admittedly has a few more tenants but is still relatively a ghost town compared to, say, the iTunes App Store or Google Play Store. This is more a work in progress than an actual flaw, though you would have presumed that by now Microsoft would have herded more high-profile names.
4. Mail app

Why Microsoft chose to put out a Mail Windows app that was clearly worse than its predecessor will forever remain a mystery. In the transition to the Universal App Platform, it seems that Windows 10s default email app has shed off more than excess baggage.
5. Default Settings
It is natural that Microsoft would choose some setting that it thinks is best for its users, but sometimes you really have to wonder what fuels those decisions. While upgrading from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 is a huge jump, youd still expect that it would preserve your previous choices, or at least be courteous enough to ask first. Instead, Windows 10 just simply plows through.

The Ugly
1. Privacy
One could probably say that Windows 10 is not a privacy conscious OS by default. Yes, it has all the switches to enable or disable potential privacy and security risks, but they all default to on, from serving you ads to gathering up your personal data to sharing some bits and pieces to your friends.
2. Wi-Fi Sense

Wi-Fi Sense is one of those more worrying privacy options that Microsoft has chosen to enable by default for the sake of convenience. We wont dwell on what was already said in the past. Suffice it to say, its a strange feature to have turned on by default anyway.
3. P2P Update

Somewhat less controversial but still a puzzling default choice is the new way to speed up downloads of updates. And by that we really mean slow down your Internet connection. Microsoft got this fancy idea to use peer-to-peer or P2P technology (yes, the very same used for those bad, bad torrents) to offload the burden of distributing updates from its servers. And guess who it offloads them to.
4. Forced Updates

Again a highly contentious topic. There really is no way around this, unless, of course you meticulously watch every update and delay them even before they hit. Or you can opt to leave your system vulnerable for long periods of time by delaying updates for several months.
5. Settings vs. Control Panel

If you have dived into the new Settings app by now, you will probably notice a pattern. Not only is the app itself filled with pages and pages of options, they also link out to Control Panel settings. Yes, the Control Panel still lives, despite Settings getting a revamp and more features compared to Windows 8.

Windows 10 is more flexible then its predecessors. Windows 10 has better overall security, sand-boxed apps, better performance, memory compression algorithms that make much more efficient use of a systems RAM in addition to a wealth of new input. The cons of windows 10 are some bugs that require fixing but if Microsoft fix those bugs then windows 10 is not bad at all.

"Someone should go to an Apple site on 10, and see what happens?"

I just did, absolutely nothing happened

Interesting, l have looked into Linux, and it isn't very good for video editing and some software.

Might work well for the average user, but me, probably not.

Apparently ANY new laptop manafactured after October last year, has to have w10 on it. Explains why l got stuck with it, at least initially.

And W7 Pro does allow virtual XP. 10 doesn't, but third party software can be installed.

Although updates will probably get through to both.

Also found that about 20% is using 10, and 50% are still using 7, and the rest probably Ubantu or Linux.

The majority probably left updates on, and got 10 automatically. Also read about some trying to revert 10 back to 7. Sometimes that doesn't work.

They, Microsoft also developed the ugly facades found on some w10 tabs, etc.

They called it blocking, for want of a better word.

And one of its latest updates, Cortana is impossible to switch off 100%. So turn it off, and keyboard strokes, or possibly conversations will go to their servers.

Give it time.

I think window 10 is difficult to use as well as having some issue with it. window 7 is best to use, so go with window 7

Sorry, l had to play this,....very funny.


At least l could leave the room.

PS there is swearing.

Had to post this, l would recommend that anyone who is planning to upgrade to 10 to watch this.

10.1984!

My computer has Windows 10 but the sign in screen no longer automatically switches to a new photo scene like I have seen other computers do. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?