Worth updating?
i got a 2nd hd, installed there a 2nd win7 with the same licence of the main hd, upgraded to win10 the 2nd hd and thus secured my win10 licence on my pc. i still use my main win7 hd, it still counts as activated and I can dual boot any day i want to.
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that's what I was planning on doing, so that works with the same licence? :o
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for me it is working until now. both installs are operational and activated. i was able to do a clean win10 install and activate it, no problem. one month ago i was pushed on my win7 install an unwanted update to win10, I completed it and as soon as i appeared to be inside win10 basic config, i rolled back that hd to win7, which worked luckily enough and win7 still appears as activated. all this with one and only win7 licence key.
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Damn, which games ?
I'll format in early august, but I'm not sure if I'll keep 7 or I'll jump on 10
(and I still have a lot of telltale in my backlog .-.)
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I upgraded 2 of my PCs into Windows 10.
1) My 5-years-old netbook, upgraded from Win 7 Home Basic (32-bit). It now lags like shit. I guess 1GB RAM is not enough for Win10. Now still regretting about why I didn't downgrade it back during the grace period.
2) My gaming desktop, from Win 8.1. So far so good. I hated the Win8 start screen, I'm glad I finally got rid of it.
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"5-years-old netbook" It's not really trivial to find compatibile ram, also I don't think it's worth to upgrade a netbook that old :p
something like lubuntu should be better
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Except for DX12 (purposefully only WIN 10) its so "shitty" they give it out for free ... they even masked the [ X ] - Button on the Update not as close but as accept and update to Win10 LOL ... but changed that very soon after - so why is it for free? Well, most won't deactivate jack and just use it (best case scenario for MS). Bazillion of Updates are likely going to overwrite your settings a 100-times or more or just ignore them, probably ads in software here and there ... + clamping down on old software, by making old one incompatible [for common users = most users] so you pay to get new one.
If it weren't for DX12, i wouldn't give 2 shits about W10 ... but i will probably use it someday just
not anytime soon - as there seems to be no point whatsoever right now - except for getting it for free lol.
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Why force it? Ask yourself: if you were a company, would you spend resources on supporting 4 different products or try to do everything that the customers switch to the latest—which you are even offering free—so you can focus your efforts on improving one product?
I wonder if Mac users were bitching and whining this much when Apple decided to kill of all OS versions before OS X and switch it to their only desktop operating system.
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Not a mac user, but if Apple released an update that tracked their activities, removed control of their system , and was generally a privacy nightmare and not any better than the previous versions, then yeah... I'd expect they'd be "bitching and moaning" as you amiably put it. At the very least, switch to a different operating system that doesn't spit on the consumer.
I can certainly see why they're pushing 10, but Windows 7 extended support doesn't end until 2020. Hopefully the state of Linux gaming will be much improved by then ;)
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if Apple released an update that tracked their activities, removed control of their system , and was generally a privacy nightmare and not any better than the previous versions
You… really haven't followed Apple's operating systems then, I assume. OS X and iOS has been like that for many years.
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Nope, I really haven't. I remember reading about a bunch of privacy concerns with Yosemite, but I thought that most of that could be disabled in the settings. I had assumed it was nothing so pervasive as the telemetry and forced updates in Win10.
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Then imagine this: Apple can look through your device any time, scan to see what files you have, and can make any kind of change in the OS remotely. Any time. For any reason. (Usually for improving security though, because unlike the myths, Macs and iPhones have viruses, and a lot of them.)
Now compare it to the telemetry that sends some generic data to MS. Do you understand now why I call this whole thing bitching? Apple gets a pass for a lot more, but as soon as MS doing it, it is suddenly Satan incarnated and people are getting the pitchforks.
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I can't really comment on that since I'm not a Mac user. That sounds really Orwellian though, don't think I'll be switching to OSX anytime soon. If you have some sources I'd certainly be interested in reading more about it.
Possibly the reason there's so much more scrutiny of Windows is because it has a much higher market share. Or maybe it's because of all the fanboys who think Apple can do no wrong. Either way, the only OS I'll most likely be recommending to friends and family in the near future is Linux Mint.
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Win10 is a nice OS, same as any Windows since 7. 8.0 had a bad start, but 8.1 is usable, despite the Metro UI. Mac's OS X is a nice OS as well, just not for an everyday consumer, it is better to work on.
Linux is… well, Linux has come a long way, but I would only recommend it if someone is either a coder or if they don't use the PC for anything more than media, browsing, and maybe some occasional writing/spreadsheet work.
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I wouldn't say intuitive and stable, it is or/or. The ease-to-use Linuxes I managed to crash ("blue screen") them all with a simple task of trying to install a GPU driver on them. Each and every one, including most any Ubuntu alternatives. And the ones that didn't crash needed hours of reading to get the software I wanted to run.
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I suppose YMMV depending on what distro you use, and what software you're trying to install. I've put Linux Mint on quite a few of my family's computers, including my grandparents, and now I receive much fewer questions and problems regarding things not working.
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From what I have seen upgrade and downgrade are where a lot of complaints come from. If you can make a separate install of w10 to test and see if the programs and game you use still run, the changes to UI along other things aren't awful to you and have nothing pressing to do in the next week(maybe weeks) then go ahead.
If I understand things correctly even if you go back to using w7 only you still will have your w10 key so can go back to it in the future. Personally I am tempted to do it just for this reason since considering how annoying I find changes to UI I doubt I will have the patience to stick with w10 for the months it would take.
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I got a new laptop not long ago and it's got Windows 10 pre-installed.. and I hate it.
It's so slow when I'm trying to play heavier games like Payday 2. I don't know if it's really Windows 10, but it cant be my laptop, because it's new and was even considered one of the best gaming laptops of 2015 (for the price). It's an upgrade from my old laptop in pretty much every aspect yet it can't run what my old laptop could without lagging.. and my old laptop was quite old, with Windows 7 installed, yet it never really lagged. Meanwhile this new laptop with W10 lags if I open too many Chrome tags. Yes, Chrome is heavy and all, but my old laptop could handle them with no problem. Say I open 15 tabs, it'd freeze while my old laptop would open them with no problem.
I don't know, I'm not a very tech savvy person, but it's been a little problematic when it comes to gaming.
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So should I update my Windows 7 to Windows 10? was thinking dual booting my Windows 7 then updating the new boot? so can keep my old win7, is this easy enough to do? worth doing?
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