#win10 experiment

[theinfamousredd]

Overall, I don’t hate it nearly as much as I went in expecting to.  I still remember how much I loved Windows XP, and how balky I was about upgrading from that, but in the end, it was a good idea to do so.  MegaTON still runs on Windows 7, and probably will for the remainder of its [not insignificant] lifespan.... unless circumstances force my hand, and I have to upgrade it to be able to continue using it.  I can plant my feet all I want, but the future is coming, and I will have to fall in line eventually.

When that day comes, I will be able to deal with it.  Windows 10 isn’t perfect, but by the time I’m forced to embrace it fully, most of the nastiest problems should be worked out.

When the time comes, I’ll be ready.

[theinfamousredd]

I tell Cortana to tell me something interesting.  She ‘thinks’ for about 30 seconds, and returns an error message.  So then this exchange occurred.

Me: Are you broken? Cortana: [chipper] I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that.

I have a soft spot for humanizing tech, so I can’t even deny she’s endearing as hell, her potential for privacy violations aside.

[theinfamousredd]

Wow.  So we asked Cortana to sing us a song.  Considering we had to turn on the location feature in order for her to cooperate at all, I’m going to guess the fact that we live in Montana to have something to do with her choice in ditty: Home On The Range.

Not gonna lie, this actually made me laugh.  Her voice isn’t awful either.  She sounds very human somehow.

[theinfamousredd]

So, I got Cortana working-- sort of.  She can hear us, but we can’t hear her-- turns out during the installation of Win10, it somehow uninstalled Junker’s audio driver.  Why the hell?

[theinfamousredd]

So there was absolutely no way to change the local username, and I was forced to sign in with my email, which I didn’t like at all.  I’m trying to not be biased about it, but all I can picture is shady as fuck people holding their hands out and saying ‘gimmee gimmee gimmee’ for my info, and that makes me bridle more than a little.  Ew, come on, Windows, please.

[theinfamousredd]

So first of all, the install itself took a hell of a long time, but even installing Windows 7 [as I have more times than I care to admit] took a good while.  That’s not an issue, it’s to be expected.  However, once it did install, booting up took almost ten minutes.  Wow.  I thought this OS was supposed to be fast?  However: this is a junker laptop, and its specs are pretty poor, so it’s probably not Win10′s fault at all.  The laptop is just junk.

When all that was finally done, and the setup process was done, we were off to a fantastic start with the ‘We’ve updated your computer’ message getting stuck in a loop for about 7 minutes.  That was... encouraging.  Hmm, bad specs on the laptop, or more borked Windows nonsense?

[theinfamousredd]

Win10 Experiment

So with the pressing concern that there will come a time that I can no longer cling doggedly to Windows 7, due to many reasons [Microsoft is really pushing this OS, and they’re not going to stop until everyone is using it, but I won’t rant on that because paranoia], I have decided to take a junker laptop and install the Windows 10 OS on it.  I chose this laptop because it is a junker and if it gets hopelessly slagged by Windows 10, it won’t be any skin off my back to lose it.  I am doing this with the purpose of learning how to circumvent Windows 10′s nastier issues, while learning how to use the OS, so when the inescapable day comes that I must use it, I won’t be completely at a loss.  And so I will be liveblogging my experience. Tag: #Win10 Experiment