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What a mess.
Yesterday when I turned my computer on, an old Acer Aspire One, the "Upgrade to Windows 10!" nag screen popped up. Okay, what the hell, I'll try it, since Microsoft says going back is easy.
It took four hours to download and another hour for "preparing to upgrade Windows" to finish, and I was given a choice - upgrade now, or schedule for later? I scheduled it for nine last night, since I wanted to use the computer for, you know, computing.
At nine I told it to go ahead. I probably went to bed around ten, and the computer screen was still black with a "working..." graphic.
This morning it said it was ready. It rebooted, and took a full half hour to reach the desktop, which was simply butt-ugly and primitive looking. The kids doing the designing at Microsoft really suck at what they do.
Before it got to the password box there were some user-hostile Microsoft spyware to opt out of. That, and the extreme slowness and butt-ugliness is all I could see that was changed. All of the changes seemed completely cosmetic. I found no additional features or usefulness at all.
My shortcut to Firefox on the task bar was gone. Microsoft Word and Excel were gone as well, although Open Office was still there. I went through the start menu's "other programs" or whatever it's called, and those applications were just gone.
Microsoft is just evil.
I have the flashblock extension installed, with a few sites whitelisted. Since KSHE changed their stream provider, I can't hear it on Firefox, so I set it to run IE on startup with the KSHE player as its home page. It took a full fifteen minutes before any music came out.
The new IE is called something else, I forgot what, but fortunately they didn't change the icon much or I'd never have found it. What is wrong with those people?
And I have never seen a slower computer, and my first one back in 1982 had a CPU that was over a thousand times slower than my notebook. The computer was simply unusable and extremely hard to navigate.
I was really glad I have my passwords written down, and it looked like I was going to lose all my bookmarks. I downloaded Firefox, and decided to go back to W7 before installing. I worried I'd have to buy Word, since the magazines all insist on it and Microsoft had apparently uninstalled it. Oh, magazines. I got my first rejection letter yesterday. I'll post it tomorrow.
Windows Ten is the worst operating system I've ever used. Of course, I understand that W8 was worse.
I went to uninstall it and it said I'd have to plug it in to - and it was fully charged. I figured it would take all day, so I plugged it in and set it going. Then doing something I never do, I went to facebook on my phone, and I hate typing on a phone.
Surprisingly, it only took an hour, and after it booted it seems to be like it was before the "upgrade". Firefox, Word, and Excel were back.
Tomorrow: Stealth
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 16 2015, @02:52AM
Microsoft is just evil.
You could've started and stopped there.
Of course, you already mentioned the brain-damaged children inside Redmond.
You know what they say about malice and incompetence.
a full half hour [...] a full fifteen minutes
I'm fairly patient but I don't have enough spare patience to to be a Windoze user.
The new IE
"Edge", as in "If I drag this edge across my throat, will that yield less net pain?"
Windows Ten is the worst operating system
You didn't even need to put in the "Ten".
An OS that requires a restart to make piddly little changes take effect is just a stupid design.
An OS that requires its user to paste band-aids all over it because the design didn't start with a proper security model (though exemplars had existed for many years) is, again, stupid.
I'd have to buy Word, since the magazines all insist on it
The students who were told they needed M$'s products and who simply used FOSS without anyone being any the wiser are legion.
Microsoft Word and Excel were gone as well, although Open Office was still there
The universe is screaming in your ear and you are ignoring it.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2015, @07:28PM
Heh, I first installed Linux in 1995 and have been using it ever since and got a career out of it. My dad, who started programming in the 70s (24-bit mainframes, FORTRAN etc.) ended up in PeeCees in the 1980s. He keeps saying he's going to try Linux "one of these days." Last year when I visited, he almost had an old PC available for me to put it on... Still curses Windows every time I speak to him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 17 2015, @05:53PM
Huh, as gewg puts in his fashion, I just wonder why you are running windows at all?
For a laptop that "just works" I usually go with Linux Mint Cinnamon. And if it's older, or not running well enough, Linux Mint Xfce. Life is so much better not dealing with windows at all. Haven't found something I really need windows for in a long time.
I do have a spare SSD that I installed windows on, then removed and set aside. (Fucking hardware locked of course, so I only works in the machine I installed it on...) I'll admit, I have used it twice in the last decade. Once to update my phone early because I didn't want to wait and the program wouldn't work under WINE, and once to play some Civ III with an old friend.
So, serious question, what's keeping you on that shit train?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Saturday November 07 2015, @08:36PM
Sounds like it really takes effort to screw it up that bad.
Reminds me a bit of trying the in-place upgrade with semi-early version of Ubuntu (e.g. Gusty, Hardy) where it was heavily recommended to just wipe and install fresh. Doing the in-place upgrade seemed like you had about a 50-50 chance that the process would just hose the OS outright. So you could say I'm naturally distrustful of OS upgrades.
I hear laypeople talking about Windows 10 "ooh, it's a free upgrade! I'm gonna check it out" and have to bite my tongue. Making it a free upgrade is how they're getting anybody to actually use it. 7 was basically the platonic ideal of Windows. But then they came down with Firefox Syndrome: "Hey we've got an awesome browser with happy customers--we'd better start innovating stuff most of them don't want and totally fuck the interface until it dies!"
#ifitaintbrokedontfixit
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"