Opinions on Windows 10?

[Dicehunter]

Holy moley these are mixed opinions... Should I really go forward with it?

My only concern is the privacy thingy and updates relations to privacy. I don't want then to collect personal info about me, it's none of their business

Yeah that's the only down side of Windows 10, Microsoft pretty much made it into NSA/FBI friendly data collector software.

 

[Wraith]

Yeah that's the only down side of Windows 10, Microsoft pretty much made it into NSA/FBI friendly data collector software.

Foil hat at the ready, you can just disable it if it bothers you that much.

 

[Dicehunter]

Foil hat at the ready, you can just disable it if it bothers you that much.

No foil hat bud I'm just being realistic and I'm pretty sure the options you disable do diddly squat, Would probably have to be done on a low level.

 

[Wraith]

Nah its all kosha, you can check sharing behaviour via trace ip and netstat.

 

[Dicehunter]

Nah its all kosha, you can check sharing behaviour via trace ip and netstat.

Lies all lies, My tin foil tuxedo says otherwise

I've actually used a free programme called Spybot Anti-Beacon which is made with donations and recommended by Barnacules Nerdgasm and if he recommends software I listen ^_^

 

[NeverBackDown]

They don't collect that much info. Also using UWT4(Ultimate Windows Tweaker) you can disable pretty much anything and it explains everything that each setting is used for, basically another spybot but got everything fixed earlier. Not really a big deal. MS is collecting less from you than FB/Google/Twitter/etc.

 

[CreatiXx]

i'll be formatting everything and go back to w8 because its been a hell, firefox, chrome, games regular usage, its all been slow, crappy, just a mess.. cant care anymore about w10

 

[NeverBackDown]

Make sure to do a clean install of 10. Upgrading any OS from experience always results in slow downs. I noticed no speed increase(except boot times) until after doing a full fresh install. After that it was far and away faster and using a computer that's not 10 is so slow.

 

[Doomslayer]

Holy moley these are mixed opinions... Should I really go forward with it?

My only concern is the privacy thingy and updates relations to privacy. I don't want then to collect personal info about me, it's none of their business

If your current OS is working the way you want it to work IMO your not really gaining anything bye going to Windows 10 if you're using Windows 8.1 apart from DX12, Still up to you in the long run if you want to take the jump.

 

[coffeefoot]

Overall I'm happy with Win. 10. I had some concerns in the beginning about security etc, but as Mr. NBD says , they are easy enough to deal with. Games seem to run better. More fps and benchmark scores.

 

[Kushiro]

I want my dreamscene back.

 

[Dark NighT]

Make sure to do a clean install of 10. Upgrading any OS from experience always results in slow downs. I noticed no speed increase(except boot times) until after doing a full fresh install. After that it was far and away faster and using a computer that's not 10 is so slow.

He does need to upgrade first for microsoft to record the hardware so it activates on the clean install.

 

[NeverBackDown]

He does need to upgrade first for microsoft to record the hardware so it activates on the clean install.

Not really but generally speaking and for simplicity sake yes he does
I've done it backwords and it worked, I did a clean install from the start(meaning no upgrade) and after seeing it was not genuine and found out why, I took an old ssd and put W7 Ult on it, then went through the upgrade process on that and after getting MS to say it was genuine I switched back to my main ssd and bam all of a sudden genuine

 

[William]

Foil hat at the ready, you can just disable it if it bothers you that much.

I heard that even if you disable it it still sends some data. I even heard that even if you uninstall services that manage these things that it is still sending some stuff.

I guess that only chance of knowing for sure is to monitor network packet transform ideally from outside of the system for some longer period of time (maybe it could be sending just from time to time as a group).

I don't know if its true or not or to what extend. I don't have it since I am happy with my Linux system so this is pretty much just a speculation.

 

[Doomslayer]

I heard that even if you disable it it still sends some data. I even heard that even if you uninstall services that manage these things that it is still sending some stuff.

I guess that only chance of knowing for sure is to monitor network packet transform ideally from outside of the system for some longer period of time (maybe it could be sending just from time to time as a group).

I don't know if its true or not or to what extend. I don't have it since I am happy with my Linux system so this is pretty much just a speculation.

As far as i know even if all of the settings are disable it will still send data back to Microsoft.

Now the new thing from Microsoft is that Windows 7 is junk and run it at your own risk now that is complete BS it was only 2 years or even 12 months ago they were saying that Windows 7 is the greatest OS ever made.

Here is a new video from Barnacules Nerdgasm not sure if it been posted on here yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5qzg4xZiQ&ab_channel=BarnaculesNerdgasm

 

[Dark NighT]

As far as i know even if all of the settings are disable it will still send data back to Microsoft.

Now the new thing from Microsoft is that Windows 7 is junk and run it at your own risk now that is complete BS it was only 2 years or even 12 months ago they were saying that Windows 7 is the greatest OS ever made.

To be honest, that is just marketing practice, every time there is a new package on the same product in supermarket its better and newer and yeah its pointless because it still is the same old thing, but a lot of people fall for the its NEW, so it must be better.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Older will always be more stable!! Always!!! Windows 10 is still an infant and no one shouldn't be fooled it's not "stable" yet. As time progresses and invulnerabilites show up they get fixed by microsoft. Windows 7 might be out of feature support but it is still getting security updates that mean MS is still fixing things on it... Windows 10 is on the point of getting both security updates (that most of the times are common for 7,8.1,10) and new features, the new features might be terribly ustable on some systems, everything else is just marketing.

Same -but more obvious- in in the linux universe, where you have Ubuntu for example that has two versions. The LTS and the regular one. LTS gets 5 years of updates the regular one gets updated for 9 months then canonical releases a new version. Currently there are three version that get support.

Or even better, Debian that is always one year behind normal Linux distros in order for it to be based on tested code, therefore to be rock solid.