Will you install Windows 10?

[jpenguin]

I wonder how many adds they'll display to you after July 29

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[claydoh]

Windows 10? sorry but I rather kinda don't completely hate it.

I just bought an Acer One 10 10-inch tablet/laptop thingy as I wanted a tablet or maybe a chromebook and this looked like a good option hardware and price-wise.

As I *never* check for any sort of Linux compatibility, ever, on purpose, I finally now have some kit that isn't fully capable of running Linux out of the box just yet (Atom Bay Trail) as the wifi is not yet available in mainline kernels but can be compiled, but there is zero sound, power management, or bluetooth support at the moment. So I run RemixOS on it when it is not booting to windows 10, or some other Android-x86 build though these both suffer the same lackings as Linux tho Remix does include the wifi.

Back to Windows, though. This is the first time I have had MS products on any of my hardware since 2002-ish, as I normally buy parts or refurbs without OS included. While I can't say that I like it it it is functional and ui is not unpleasant. Of course I found lists and how-to's on what to turn off or disable and all that as is the norm, until I can replace it with a different but fully functional OS

[oldgeek]

I have Windows 10 dual-booted with Kubuntu 16.04 on my desktop and just Linux Mint on my old netbook. I rarely use Windows because Linux does practically everything I need it to do and because I like Kubuntu especially (and Mint as well). The only reason I use Windows is to run programs (mostly astronomical) that can't run on Kubuntu--including NASA programs, which is odd since their spacecraft run on Linux. A few things are easier to do on Windows, such as installing some programs and automatic troubleshooting, but I like the free software concept and especially like the forums of interested users who have helped me out many times. I also like not having to worry about viruses and the flexibility in updating. Kubuntu is an excellent OS and I hope it continues to develop--I don't know why it isn't the leading Linux desktop at this point.

[jlittle]

Just in the last three days I've met three people in various strife caused by the windows 10 upgrade forcing itself onto users. One lost data when the computer crashed when he tried to stop the upgrade; he didn't have the time to let it continue, he and the computer had to be somewhere else.

I'm presently running clonezilla on the hard disc of another's laptop so that when I try and fix the mess if I screw up I can go backwards.

[GreyGeek]

Microsoft will be more than happy to sell your friend another license if recovery of his current license isn't successful.

[jpenguin]

I have Windows 10 dual-booted with Kubuntu 16.04 on my desktop and just Linux Mint on my old netbook. I rarely use Windows because Linux does practically everything I need it to do.

My primary desktop dualboots Apricity(cinnamon)/win10. My other desktop is Ubuntu 14.04 Mate/PC-BSD. I use Apricity for almost everything, haven't booted win10 for months

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[wizard10000]

I run Win10 under virtualbox as my employer's HR site requires IE and user agent spoofing doesn't work (thanks, SAP). But considering I only fire the thing up once a month or so to grab updates I'm about to the point where I archive the license key and reclaim 75GB of SSD space

[dequire]

I run Win10 under virtualbox as my employer's HR site requires IE[...]

Is this 2003? Wow, that's crazy. I'm guessing there's some kind of legacy home-grown .net stuff running somewhere from way back when .net was competing with java (anyone remember java beans?) for "on-the-fly" client-side calculations?

[wizard10000]

Is this 2003? Wow, that's crazy. I'm guessing there's some kind of legacy home-grown .net stuff running somewhere from way back when .net was competing with java (anyone remember java beans?) for "on-the-fly" client-side calculations?

Yeah, something like that. Getting tired of just firing up the VM to get security updates once a month so as mentioned, I'm about ready to archive the license key and blow the VM away, or at least put it on backup media

[Snowhog]

Before I left Windows completely (at home), I had it running in a VM for the sole purpose of running Quicken. When I found KMymoney, I installed it and started 'looking it over' and found it did everything I needed from Quicken. That was it. I no longer had a need to keep Windows, so it's VM went into the Trash and I've never had Windows on my PC's since. That was more than four (maybe five) years ago.

[MoonRise]

Wish I could say the same. Work is still a MS shop and that won't change anytime soon as the software we have is specialized and only written to run on Windows. Though I have tried getting them to run in Linux under WINE, no go, so dual boot I stay.

[GreyGeek]

Yeah, something like that. Getting tired of just firing up the VM to get security updates once a month so as mentioned, I'm about ready to archive the license key and blow the VM away, or at least put it on backup media

I had WinXP as a guest OS "just in case" for several years, but like you I realized that although I never used it I ran it once every three or four months for updates. The last time I ran updates there were several thousand waiting for me (27K or 32K IIRC) and it took over an hour. That's when I decided I was wasting my time since I had never used XP even once. I was using XP at work to write software using the Qt API in Visual Studio C++ 6.0. I experimented using Kate, Kdbg and gcc on my Linux partition and found I could code, compile and test 2 to 3 times faster in Linux than in VS in XP, so that's what I started doing. I tested againt PostgreSQL and used compiler defines to detect the OS and switch in Oracle code if the compile took place on my Windows partition.

[Qqmike]

We have 8.1 on the wife's ASUS laptop, I don't use it but am the "administrator/troubleshooter," and will upgrade to Win X soon -- mainly because I thought it would be a good exercise for me to 'learn' Windows up-to-date and be informed about it. It works for her email, Skype, photos and such. However, if this sh* gets to be too much with 10, ads and all, even after I configure the various 30-something privacy settings, I'll wipe that hdd in a NY minute and run 14.04 on it for her and never look back. That is to say, we each have our limit about what we can tolerate as acceptable--"learning experience" or not. And, there are details. Like my Skype on my 14.04 is actually nicer and more configurable than her Skype on 8.1.

[SecretCode]

[MoonRise]