Why shouldn't I switch to Windows 10 now? Why is 7 the preferred OS?

[raiko]

Just wondering: Why shouldn't I switch to Windows 10 now? Why is 7 the preferred OS? I'm a newbie to operating systems, and genuinely prefer Windows 7's overall style and feel over Windows 10, but I know Windows 10 is supposed to be faster and overall more smooth than Windows 7. I'm a casual gamer and programmer, so I'd like to hear why others do not upgrade to Windows 10.

 

[samuria]

Ten is more stable and is rewritten with big updates every 6 months. & is old now and sooner or later there wontbe drivers and support for it. You can customize 10 to look like 7 mostley. Its certainley is faster and more supported by everyone

 

[file3456]

The major privacy invasion and forced updates keep me from 10 right now. 10 even has a built-in keylogger. It can be turned off supposedly, but that's not the point.

When the time comes I have to run 10 I'm installing a hardware-based firewall and blocking all of M$'s ASNs. Then I'll watch the firewall for in/out traffic and block anything else that's not suppose to be going in/out of my computer. I don't even use updates now as it is unless I need one to fix something. Never been hacked, got malware or any of those scare tactics. If I need an update in 10 I'll download it via my VPN.

They modeled 10 after an asinine smartphone. Well, they are smart alright. Smarter than you with constant analytics, etc. It's a marketer's wet dream come true.

 

[Jeyneko]

7 generally works better on some older, Vista-era computers than 10. The invasive privacy issues with 10 are also a turnoff.
Plus with things like the recent patch that was released last month and such that deleted personal files, it doesn't make a good impression on people who're already accustomed to 7 and see no issue with it.

Most things doable in 10 are doable in 7 too.

 

[Megahertz07]

With win 10, one day you turn on the computer and it begin to install a new version and you can't work for two hours. And it happens more often than anyone could expect.
Then you have the privacy assault. Most of them you can turn off but then most programs don't work.

"The best software is the one you know how to use it"

 

[raiko]

Thanks everyone for the insights. I'll eventually purchase a Windows 10 computer and keep this all in mind

 

[townsbg]

This discussion has been going on for months here. You can find multiple threads on the topic. There are people here that are on both sides of the fence. Some people love 10. Others despise it and won't use it. The best advise I can say is to do some research on the pros and cons and decide for yourself if it is worth it. You might want to check out tenforums. Windows 10 Help Forums

 

[lolnothankyou]

Windows 10 contains spyware and adware. Windows 7 SP1 updated to say 2014-215 doesn't. And the interface doesn't s*ck as much.

 

[Paul Black]

You could always use Win 10 in a VM to see if you get on with it and like it!

 

[lehnerus2000]

With win 10, one day you turn on the computer and it begin to install a new version and you can't work for two hours. And it happens more often than anyone could expect.
Then you have the privacy assault. Most of them you can turn off but then most programs don't work.

"The best software is the one you know how to use it"

2 hours?
You must have been lucky.

When I tried to update my W10 Pro VM (from 1703 to 1709) it made multiple failed attempts.
After 12 hours it had filled the entire VHD with broken copies of 1709.

I restored it to 1703 and blocked it from the Internet.
It has run flawlessly ever since.

In any case I don't need any updates for W10, as my main PCs still run good old rock solid W7.
Note:
I stopped updating my W7 PCs after the Spectre & Meltdown patch fiasco at the start of this year.

 

[file3456]

Spectre & Meltdown largely affect cloud computing and have very little bearing on home computing. There's now another vulnerability dealing with hyper threading. Researchers warn of new Hyper-Threading-based Intel CPU vulnerability - TechSpot

 

[dg1261]

And here's the latest reminder of that vaunted Win10 stability: "Windows 10 users finding their legit installs are being deactivated"

 

[Paul Black]

And here's the latest reminder of that vaunted Win10 stability: "Windows 10 users finding their legit installs are being deactivated"

Now why doesn't that surprise me? :banghead:

 

[Jeyneko]

Windows 10 post-1703 is a buggy, horrible mess and MS are only digging it down for themselves.

As for Meltdown/Spectre they greatly would impact the performance of my old AMD, and one of the exploits won't even affect my processor IIRC, so I wouldn't update. Didn't realise it only really affected cloud computing.

Wouldn't surprise me if Intel are putting exploits in on purpose for the NSA either, or wanting to force push W10 later versions...

 

[strollin]

I personally have a laptop, a tablet and 2 desktops running Win 10 that are all upgraded to build 1809 (also have Win 10 on a VM for test purposes running Windows Insider build 18277). In addition, I also have a work laptop running Win 10 build 1803. I haven't run Win 7 on any of my machines for several years. I've found Win 10 to be extremely stable (much more so than Win 7 ever was).

I've NEVER had any of my machines disabled by a buggy update causing me to spend hours getting things working again. I had that happen with Win 7 on multiple occasions but never with Win 10.

There is a much trumpeted bug in build 1809 where some users reported that the OS was deleting some of their files, I didn't lose a single file on any of my machines.

There's a new bug being reported regarding legitimate installs being deactivated. I actually encountered that one on one of my machines yesterday. I tried to Activate and it failed. I then clicked on Troubleshoot and got a message that Windows was now Activated. Sum total of time spent "troubleshooting" that bug was about 1 minute. The only symptom I had was a message in the lower right corner of my screen telling me to go to Settings and Activate Windows.

As far as Win 10 sending data to MS servers, it's a non-issue for me since I'm not a paranoid person. MS is collecting millions of records daily from millions of machines running Win 10. Any data collected is pretty much lost within that large dataset to where the data is really only useful to track trends and such for MS. Not sure what else people think MS would/could do with the data.

 

[file3456]

And here's the latest reminder of that vaunted Win10 stability: "Windows 10 users finding their legit installs are being deactivated"

Yeah, I read about that on Twitter. I just shook my head. QC is down the toilet it seems. Will add this to the pile on my topic at my own forum. LMAO

 

[lehnerus2000]

I've read that MS has added new telemetry code in W7 Roll-ups (starting in October 2018).

 

[ShadouFox]

Just wondering: Why shouldn't I switch to Windows 10 now? Why is 7 the preferred OS? I'm a newbie to operating systems, and genuinely prefer Windows 7's overall style and feel over Windows 10, but I know Windows 10 is supposed to be faster and overall more smooth than Windows 7. I'm a casual gamer and programmer, so I'd like to hear why others do not upgrade to Windows 10.

I'm all very new to this as well. I have been running Linux since 2001, and the last Windows rig I used was Windows-98SE. I have a specific app I need and it won't run under WINE, and I don't have a Mac and have no intention of ever getting one. So that leaves Windows. As for why:


*) Seven runs like a champ on the old Dell Optiplex (originally had XP installed) 32 bit rig I was just given for free. Looks like it's a model from the early Oughts.



*) The Dell has CD read/write capabilities, but doesn't read DVDs, so that meant preparing a USB drive for the install. This is easy to do from Slackware and the install DVD *.iso file. Stop the boot, and select the USB drive and you're good to go: flawless install.


*) Looked into the various iterations of Windows, and Seven got the best reviews. Not sure Ten can even run on my rig, and even if it did, I wouldn't: way too intrusive, tries to do way too much for you so I'd be spending more time arguing with it than getting anything done.


*) It cost way less: less than 25% what Ten would cost.


*) Still has a lot of life left in it, and so why not keep it until the specialized app I need no longer runs on it? If it was the main rig I did everything with, that might be a different story.