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angryhampster

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i am a pirate....who enjoys, the movie..."PIRATES" of the carribean....

 

in that regard, as a fellow pirate who dresses up as a pirate..... on october 31.....

 

 

are there any cons for a pirate as myself who dresses up as a pirate to switch to Windows 10?

 

are there any limitations on the hooks and hats that a pirate has with windows 7, vs a person with windows 10.

 

happy ahlloween, and keep the costumes ethical and clean.

 



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tell me anything, anything from your heart about the switch and how windows 10 is, and how it has improved your life for the better, or worse.  anything from ur mind.

 

im forcing it out of you...

 

 

DO IT!!! JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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You can pry XP and Win7 from my cold dead hands.


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The gods demand more....

 

anyone who has someting to share, share it here...

 

because i can bless you with good fortunes.  yes, yes i can.  please share....



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im too afraid to go from 7, or 8.1 to 10, just take one for the team and tell me how it goes


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the thing with windows 10 is that.... ITS free...

 

since it's free. it makes me scared. and since im scared, it means that im scared.   see.  it goes full circle. 

 

is there anyone who has balls that went to windows 10? share your stuff.

 

i will bless the water you shower with, so it'll make you happier.   share, anyone, jus share something....



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I got a tiny FPS increase in some games, which has been about the only good thing for me in using w10 so far.

 

W10 wouldn't let me install another browser because they apparently hadn't been installed by many w10 users.

The standard browser, Edge, kept freezing on every page I loaded - thankfully I've Chrome now.

There's XBOX LIVE advertisements on my menu for whatever reason.

Did I mention privacy's laughed at in w10 unless you spend some time configuring?

 

Stick with w7 unless you hate yourself.



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if you're reluctant to hopping over to windows 10 because of its privacy issues, then read on:

 

Spoiler

 

if not, then i'll assume you're afraid of the fact that something might go wrong with the entire process. in that case, you should know that the upgrade process is arguably Microsoft's best effort yet. it was pretty damn seamless. been running on an upgrade install for the past few months, have not had a single problem as of this post.


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Maybe a slight FPS bump. (Wasn't looking that close)
A lot faster boot up times.
Feels snappier overall.

I held onto XP forever, loved 7 and tentatively jumped to 10.

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I would not call Win 10 a gaming-ready OS. Driver support is still garbage and it is serious enough across all manufacturers that it is possible you will be looking at crashes all over the place, especially with older cards.

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the only complaint i have is the brightness keys on my laptop no longer work, i have to adjust brightness via the video card settings directly, apparently its a mildly common issue, but none of the fixes have worked yet for me. 


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You can pry XP and Win7 from my cold dead hands.

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The reason of why to update to a new system from one that is perfectly running well and gets updates escapes me. Especially when it's Windows. It might be free and all, but IIRC, you still have more than half a year to switch so I would recommend to let others keep on beta testing that.


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tried it didn't like it.

all the wonderful little tweeks you can do to your security/firewall etc, your scheduling of updates, backups (all that Control Panel stuff, essentially), gone. it's on or off, and even some of that is not selectable.

intrusive and downright brazen "snoopware" on the default install. ffs.

a 10 "App" limit on Windows software that can be installed on one machine. this repeatedly popped up on me. (don't ask--i have no idea)

absolutely no desktop gadgets of any kind M$ or 3rd party. not even the old clock.

some random 3rd party software incompatabilities that drove me to not even lasting 24hrs with this astonishingly wretched wad of stench.

 

just be careful: if your W7 is a gift from ThePirateBay, Taiwan, or elsewhere, and you choose to revert back from W10, you'll have to reinstall the M$N Key that you used, as Defender pops that little not genuine Woze nag tag and blanks your desktop background. just sayin. :wink:

 

 

edit:  btw if you are pestered by that annoying little white flag thing in the tray, see this: http://www.cnet.com/...stem-tray-icon/


Edited by em1o, 07 January 2016 - 01:12 PM.

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I am using Windows 10 Pro. I did the upgrade from 7 to 10 and everything works fine for me. Haven't had major problems with other games. The most I had to do was run as admin and that fixes most things for me. From my experience, Win10 works fine with Hawken well at least for me.



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gotta admit (and likely due to OEM installs) W10 did finally make it out of the basement and pass XP. graph is about halfway down this page: https://en.wikipedia...erating_systems


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As far as the upgrade itself goes, it's pretty damn smooth. I've been doing about a couple upgrades a week since October and they've all gone smoothly except 2 that had weird driver issues. Also you will most likely need to install a network driver yourself via flash drive or something before you can update the rest of your drivers post-upgrade. 

 

Gaming seems to work fine to me. I'm not on 10 yet myself, but two of my friends built new rigs and went straight to 10, and they've been running a wide variety of games (including Hawken when I borrow one of their machines) with no issue. The only crash either have had was while playing Ark, and that un-optomized POS will fuzz with any system. Bear in mind that this is with all new components however, older hardware seems to be more prone to driver issues.

 

That said, you've still got time to wait and let others work out the kinks for you so to speak.


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I have my main machine on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. It works just fine. I have had to add some hacks that keep MS from trying to force me to switch to 10. And  some to stop them from downloading gigs of files for the switch after I already told them NO. They are pushing it hard, real hard. They are now using fake scare tactics. Removing the ability to even say no. That is bad, real bad. I have Windows 10 Home Premium on my second machine. I also have Linux mint 17.2 installed on that machine on it's own SSD and it's own backup external HDD. I use Linux to slap 10 upside the head when it misbehaves. Usually due to some sneaky crap that MS is trying to do. Games on 10 are a tiny bit faster. It's not a bad OS other than the intrusive, sneaky ass, nosy crap MS is constantly trying to do. Changing the names of  services that spy on you when watch groups find them and tell eveyone the name to shut off. I use my 2nd machine as a test bed for gaming and just what kind of sneaky crap MS is up to with 10. It's been a "interesting" ride so far. These are my experiences, yours may vary. :thumbsup:


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to all of whom have helped me, you may have 1 date with my sister... only 1.


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I used Windoze 10 on my main for a little bit.  I had quite a few problems and annoyances due to sound drivers taking forever to be released.  Every time I booted I had to fiddle with the device manager to get the audio working.  I also ran into some other issues and disliked the intrusion of privacy and record keeping on their end.

 

I reverted back to an older hard drive.

 

I do however use Windows 10 on a HP tablet that I basicly just surf the web on and watch youtube or twitch.  Its fine for that, but for a main desktop save yourself a headache, and stick with Windows 7.


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