nobler wrote:
I've been messing with computers since 1972 (that was a PDP11). One thing I'm sure of, you should never "upgrade" the OS on a computer that is working and useful. If you want to mess with the latest mess from Microsoft, get that OS on a new computer. That way, you'll still have the old computer to fall back on, and you can ease into the new one at your own pace.
That said, I've had a state of the art "new'" Win10Pro PC with a top of the line AMD Ryzen processor, Samsung 970-Pro NVMe SSD, and 64GB of DDR4 RAM for almost 18 months, and I still f*cking hate the poor excuse for an OS and have barely used it. To paraphrase Thom Hogan, they moved my cheese, bread, and mayo, and made it dam-near useless. If I had "upgraded" my Win7Pro machine by overwriting the OS with Win10, I'd presently be miserable AND out of business.
IMAO, they changed Winblows so much and obsoleted so many of my tools, that it would be easier to learn a new OS, which is probably why I've been using Linux so much since last year.
But of course, you *could* just reload the image you made of your C: drive before you ran the upgrade. You did image your C: drive before the upgrade, right?
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However helpful one might be intending to be, it is hard to see how a sarcastic lecture on what a person "might" have done or perhaps even "should" have done is perceived to be helpful in a situation like this.
And to others, no, Windows 10 is really not a huge step backward. It is, in fact another step to providing a "real" operating system. And much of what is inconvenient about it has been made necessary by the way we have chosen to use our computers in such a connected environment coupled with the existence of so many unscrupulous people who are using that connectedness to their benefit and everyone else's detriment.
Change isn't easy for many of us. My dad, who is 94, still rants almost daily over the limitations he faces because he can't load new programs on his computer, which he demands remain on Windows XP. He can't even add a new printer...no drivers, and no Internet to find and install them if there were.