Annoying OT rant. You'll probably want to skip reading this altogether.

I built myself a rather nice Gaming system a while back, and for the most part, I'm pretty happy with it. The big pain in the ass, though, was that I installed Windows 8.1 on it, rather than finding a copy of Windows 7. I've used Windows 7 for a couple years at work, and am pretty happy with it.

However, Windows 8.1 was a nasty kick in the teeth. I'm still fighting with it, and hating it. So when the new and improved Windows 10 was announced, I thought I'd go and install it.

Though, this time, I thought I'd learn a little about it first, so as not to install something even worse than Windows 8.1 (which sucks horribly, by the way). (Note: It's pretty much just the UI part that seems to suck. Performance is good. It's just that the UI went to hell for no good reason. When you mention it on a mailing list, you get the old "Oh, you old farts are afraid of change". Bullhocky! I'm not a *bit* afraid of change. I just hate things that suck!)

Anyway, reading the reviews, it seems that Windows 10 might be a significant improvement over Windows 8.1. Not that I'll be finding out, though. Luckily, before I allowed my box to upgrade to Windows 10, I stumbled across something: Apparently Windows 10 is going to *force* autoupdates--no compromises.

Sorry, Microsoft, but you've lost *far* too much trust for me to allow you to decide when to upgrade my operating system. So I'll be sticking with Windows 8.1 until someone either gives me a (legal) copy of Windows 7 (I'm not interested in pirating it, *nor* am I planning on giving Microsoft another dime to fix their mistake.)

Sorry for the off-topic rant, but I'm in a ranting mood.

(For those advising that I should use Linux, I'll let you know that I have more Linux boxes (5) at home than Windows boxes (2). I put this box together for gaming, but I run it most of the time because it has the good monitors on it, the big honkin' CPU and the excessive RAM. The instant that game stops being fun, this box'll be getting upgraded to Debian, and there'll only be my son's Windows box left in the place.)

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to OT: Sigh ... Windows 10 by roboticus

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