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Originally Posted by MRM
I hate Windows 10 with a passion I reserve for few of the world's greatest abominations. I have a long policy of buying the latest proven technology and holding on to it until it won't work anymore, and then leapfrogging generations to the next newest, proven technology. I learned never to go with the newest cutting edge technology until the bugs are worked out and the technology is proven. I've been running Windows 7 Professional for as long as I can remember. It's intuitive, stable, has all the features I want. Overall it's simply an easy package to use and has enterprise power and flexibility.
I "upgraded' to Windows 10 in April so i wouldn't be dealing with it at the end of the year. I hate it with the intensity of 10,000 suns. My keyboard-based trackpad was the easiest way to navigate, now it's so flighty that I can't use it. Half the time it won't move, the other half it jumps off the page. Double tapping on the track pad results in one of three or four functions, which means it does what I want about a quarter of the time. The menu is all changed and I can't simply go to the Windows icon at the lower left of the screen and scroll through my programs and files. Going directly to desktop search requires some sort of alchemy. I could go on and on. I just want my Windows 7 back. Now get off my lawn. That is all  |
I hate it too.
It forced itself onto my receptionists work computer one Thursday during the day, she is not computer literate and let it install.
Once installed my job tracking software was not compatible. That software is subscription based, seems "they forgot" to send my a patch to fix it. I learned this after I rolled her machine back to 7 then installed software to lock 7 in place and then installed the same software on all my machines in my office. It was free and I am sure it was just changing some settings on my machine to stop certain updates. Our machines still update to new patches of 7. That forced update knocked her machine down for 2 days while I figured out how to get back to Win7 and get her station set back up. I neded up spending a Sunday in the office fixing it.
We were set to build all new machines in October and shop for new Cadd software* which was going to be subscription based. Which I hate!
Lamenting about that, we decided to just leave it all alone, we will run these cadd stations on 7 for as long as we can stand it. Possibly keeping them after the fateful day we finally have to update our Win version. (we are going to explore Linux)
* For whatever reason my cadd software (Autodesk Civil Cadd) hates Win10 + Servers. If you work across a server you WILL have 2-3 crashes a day, when it crashes it corrupts the cadd file so bad it cannot be recovered. Therefore we do not use it. If I load a cadd file onto the machine and use it locally, no crashing. As soon as you go across the server, unstable.
I am not a software engineer not a IT person, my fix to the problem was to just not create the problem.