Should I take the 'leap'?
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
it's fine. it's not going to change your life or anything.
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it's fine. it's not going to change your life or anything.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
I pondered this question quite a bit a few weeks back when I was upgrading my disk to solid state. I ended up just keeping my Win7 install (dual boots to Linux Mint) because well... it works. I also have a few expensive pieces of software on there that would really piss me off if they didn't work after the switch (notably, Matlab), so why mess with it. If you don't have anything to lose, you can always back everything up and give it a try. In my case, I was more concerned about improving my boot times... I mostly use Linux nowadays anyway.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
I am waiting another 6 months, before installing/upgrading.
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I pondered this question quite a bit a few weeks back when I was upgrading my disk to solid state. I ended up just keeping my Win7 install (dual boots to Linux Mint) because well... it works. I also have a few expensive pieces of software on there that would really piss me off if they didn't work after the switch (notably, Matlab), so why mess with it. If you don't have anything to lose, you can always back everything up and give it a try. In my case, I was more concerned about improving my boot times... I mostly use Linux nowadays anyway.
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(notably, Matlab)
I'm sorry. X|
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I wouldn't ditch 7 for 10.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
If it's only for curiosity and you've got the capability install it on a VM and give it a try first. That way you'll know if you're one of the (very, very) few unlucky ones to have issues. I went from 7 to 10 via that route with a full upgrade in August and (much to the annoyance of Original Griff and others!) have had not a single problem since.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
I also had a flawless upgrade but it was from 8.1 to 10 so may not be relevant. The move to Office365 on the other hand has been a complete PITA.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
No.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
Out of curiosity, do it! It will, at the very least, make your computer faster! ;P Other than that, except for the disappearance of the usual start menu icons (replaced by a different start menu which will not have its previous links) it's no big deal..
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
I took the leap a couple of weeks ago. Here is IMHO what I think about it: + booting is faster + shutting down is faster + more similar to win7 than to win8 - UI "upgrade", trying to look "hip" whatever that means. They made it look dull (personal taste)... Look up for screenshots first. - Experimenting with the new and improved "simple" design which leads to the point below. - The treatment of users as having zero PC knowledge. I need to elaborate here: The phrase 'We are preparing everything for you' is all you can see when installing win10 for almost 30 minutes or so (which hit my nerve). Stuff like the screen resolution is now an advanced setting, etc. This is the direction that you should expect from this new "simple" design. They did not abstract stuff, they just removed them to make it "simple". - you cannot stop the windows updates (without a tremendous registry related effort). the only thing you can do is to decide whether to let it restart your PC automatically or wait for your decision to restart it. Now as of why you would want to stop, well that's not the point. But in any case, whether you are playing an MMO, or you are in a hotel with limited bandwidth, or simply streaming movies, The user should decide what is the priority of his downloads. - several privacy stuff that you would automatically give up for a better "user experience" such as your location. * EDIT * I didn't want to compare Edge and Firefox...
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
I am not sure. I upgraded in early august and all went really well up until mid november. Since the "Threshold 2" update all sorts of stuff is going haywire. Interfacing with drivers is particularly bad: some peripherals no longer work or work erratically. Other new ones install and work perfectly well under windows 7 but don't under Windows 10 although the driver is reportedly windows 10 compatible ( FTDI CDM drivers ). I wouldn't be surprised if it was compatible with the "original" windows 10 but not with the new one. Don't they know at microsoft they shouldn't fix it if it ain't broke ?
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
I have "taken the leap" on two of our PCs here, both Win 7, one 32 bit, the other 64bit. The 32 bit upgrade went fairly painlessly and everything worked except for the MachineID having changed and forcing re-registration of a couple of bits of software (CfosSpeed and SmartFTP). The 64 bit is another story, it is on an Asus Z87-Pro with an i7-4770K - so fairly recent hardware. After the various reboots during the upgrade it lost the Ethernet connection and all USB2 ports luckily the USB3 worked so I could get a mouse and keyboard connected. Looking in the device manager the NIC and USB ports were there and 'working' - only they didn't. Re-installing the chipset and NIC drivers from Asus fixed the problem. Same problem as for the 32 bit with needing to re-register the same software. HOWEVER, it has just gone and upgraded to build 10586 and I had to go through the whole driver and license rigmarole again. An even bigger HOWEVER is that one of these computers is also my PVR for UK Freesat. I went away for the weekend having set Downton Abbey to record and came back to find a screen saying "Howdy, we've got some delicious updates waiting for a reboot, we reckon 3 am tomorrow would be a good time for this, whad'ya think?" - well I think that it sucks because the message appeared to have halted all other programmes (or at least inhibited the task scheduler from starting new ones) and I didn't get my recording of Downton. I don't find 10 any faster than 7. I have upgraded a single core Sempron laptop and performance is just the same (once you have waited 2 days for 10 to finish indexing everything again). I hope that this helps
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I am not sure. I upgraded in early august and all went really well up until mid november. Since the "Threshold 2" update all sorts of stuff is going haywire. Interfacing with drivers is particularly bad: some peripherals no longer work or work erratically. Other new ones install and work perfectly well under windows 7 but don't under Windows 10 although the driver is reportedly windows 10 compatible ( FTDI CDM drivers ). I wouldn't be surprised if it was compatible with the "original" windows 10 but not with the new one. Don't they know at microsoft they shouldn't fix it if it ain't broke ?
That happened on my laptop too. I booted to recovery, rolled back to the previous Windows 10 build and turned on "defer upgrades" in system settings once everything was up and running again.
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it's fine. it's not going to change your life or anything.
I played with it on and off for awhile and finally decided it just didn't offer anything I needed for the little headaches I had to work around. My DEV machine is solid running on Win7. I have "10" confined to a VM where I can use it for testing but I doubt that I'll go to it (at least on that equipment) at all. There's just no features compelling enough to upgrade right now, IMHO.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
I would. Imho, it is just silly to wait. I like it a lot. Has been pretty solid. My only realy complaint is the large lack of basic functionality in many of the new "apps" like mail, for instance. But I just use other mail clients instead. For me, it is probably worth it for the time saved using Cortana alone. Searching for things such as where to set some setting for something or finding some file I know the name of but can't remember where I put it are big time savers.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while. The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else. Cheers!
Andrés
Win 10 is still in beta state. I wouldn't upgrade from Win 7 just yet, unless you are having system-related problems that would require serious work fixing. I've upgraded my Win 8 Ultrabook because I really hated W8 - compared to that, in spite of some rough edges, Win 10 is an improvement. That said, the upgrade from Win 8 wasn't clean. I have occasional shutdowns (no warning, no bluescreen - just an instant power down), and experience a few odd quirks. Mary Jo Fowley apparently had the same issues, but in an article she declared they went away after a fresh installation, so that's what I'll try shortly. My Win 7 desktop works fine, and I'll leave it that way. I'll buy a new one next year, and it will also be Win 7. I't s the most stable OS I ever had besides Win XP (after a couple of service packs) and I really don't see why I should instead use a juvenile OS that endangers my privacy and introduces UI changes that are inherently unhelpful (I hate how in the flat UI design it's impossible to distinguish labels from flat buttons :mad: ) The only things that would make me consider upgrading a Win 7 system to Win 10 is (1) being able to take advantage of DX 12 (if your graphics adapter supports it) and (2) Support for W7 ending (in 2020)
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