More recently, I upgraded my desktop computer and decided to try Windows 10 Pro on it. Between Windows Defender updates breaking, lack of window title bar customization, having to hassle with registry edits to change settings that used to be in a GUI, the travesty that is the new Personalization Settings panel, and the broken help system.
On my desktop, just frustrated by all the regressions compared to Windows 8.1. For example, most of the help prompts I clicked on in Windows 10 would open up a browser windows with a Bing search of "How to search for help in Windows.", instead of a search for the help item in question. Or the half-finished Frankenstein abomination that is the theme manager.
And yes, I stand by my assertion that Windows 10 is not up to the quality of either Windows 7 or Windows 8 (+Win 7 Start menu) shortly after launch.
My thoughts exactly. Windows 10 is a not a pleasure to use on a desktop. Visually, Windows 10 is a jack of all trades, with the primary focus set on a touch-enabled device with mic/camera/gps onboard (such as Surface Pro 3/4). Classic desktop out of the box experience is pretty poor. Lack of GUI customization options. The new Start menu seems to be half-finished, not enough customization and its too square, designed for touch-devices in mind. With all the fuss, they might have just one search box left for all that matters (yeah its true you can find anything / launch everything with it), so why bother with a menu at all if that can't be done properly.
I had to spend lots of time customizing GUI to suit my desktop needs. Is it really that much better than Windows 8.1? In the future yes... right now, not really. Too much hassle for so little gain (if at all). I don't even mention the telemetry / windows update part. Windows was all about customization, now they seem to be taking the Apple route. Can't blame them though.
Windows 10 is free right now because it's a half-finished, buggy beta product.
It is free for a reason. Microsoft needs Windows 10 more than any of us does. Period. And my VISTA SP2 laptop is still running fine, no invitations to install the latest and greatest OS? I feel sad, not really.
Personally, I haven't experienced serious issues on my desktop, except for my wi-fi adapter not working straight out of the box, had to fiddle with it for a bit and occasional driver not installing correctly. Suffice to say, I didn't have any of these issues with Win 8.1. Not a big deal though. Internally, it is great though... slightly more efficient than Windows 8.1 (way more efficient than Windows 7), it's GUI, constant logging and inflexible WU that annoy me the most. Wish there was a way around it, officially.
On a more positive note, now you can have Skydrive/Onedrive with a local account (just like in Windows 7/8.0).
I might try Windows 10 again in another eight months or so, but for a production environment Windows 10 is shite. Back to 8.1 with StartIsBack for me.
Yeah, I have W10 for experiments only. Too many things are going to get patched soon anyway. You guys keep testing it, making it better for us all. I hope in the next version, Cortana is going to get more usable, don't disable telemetry. Thank you very much </sarcasm>.