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No end in sight
I have just been reading about the 8th gen Intel processors (?Coffeelake) and the Z370 chipsets and I am really lost for any hope of ever doing another build as any future proofing has gone out of the window (no pun intended) and it certainly makes for what little pleasure we/I have enjoyed over the last few years since the Sandy and Ivy Bridge builds has followed that hope down the insatiable gurgler of whatever Intel and Microsoft are planning.
To me personally Windows for for one has lurched from one good build to another XP > Vista > 7 > 8.1 > 10 and now in my mind is lost in a system that is not enjoyable anymore partly because a lot of the control that we had in 7 has now been taken away in favour of app based models of the OS which to a fairly simple minded and semi savvy person such as I have some degree of difficulty in taking part in any forum for example. The Seven Forum it appeared to me a happy and pleasant place to be able to take some degree of participation whereas the Ten Forum I am finding bogged down in tech talk that the system is built around it's (to me) convoluted GUI's and settings.
All in all it gives me the impression that unless one is or as some formal training or study of IT matters it only leaves open the door of getting help with the 10 system when I run up against some problem I cannot figure out again that is proving more often than not.
But this is just my own personally feelings on computing both as an enjoyable and useful service/activity and I have heard from many that I am in contact with through various means that they also feel the same way.