That is the question.

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>I'll wait at least a few months before making a move on Windows 10.

Likewise, at least until there is a Win10 version of WindowBlinds.

I got it. If you're happy with what you have now I haven't seen any compelling reason to update so far. It still has a couple of rough edges (e.g. repainting bugs) that I have come across.

I think I'll wait and see. Pretty happy with Windows 8.1. I have 10 installed in a VM, so I can still play with it when I want to.

I have two Windows 7 licenses from university days. I tried to update my Windows 7 OS, but after downloading all of the files it says, "Sorry, we aren't able to determine if your computer supports Windows 10." Which is just a clever way of saying "Windows 7 is screwed up because we suck." (Every time it boots up, it tries to apply 100 patches, fails, reverts, and reboots 3 times over 45 minutes. Thanks, Microsoft, for failing at the simple task of updating software.) But why couldn't you do that before downloading gigs of data?

I tried to install Windows 10 with the other license on a NUC, but apparently you cannot use your Windows 7 key to install Windows 10 from a blank slate. Installing Windows 7 first was problematic because the NUC has USB 3, which isn't supported by Windows 7. (It's dumb. The install process can begin; the installer starts; but it decides it can no longer read from itself.)

I managed to modify the USB image with USB 3 drivers. (See, isn't this funny? I can put the USB 3 drivers on the same USB drive that Windows says it cannot load from. And then it works.) Blah blah, after that, I upgraded to Windows 10 using the same key. My sources say that now the key has been updated to a Windows 10 key and I could use it to reinstall on that box if I ever need to.

Ok, that was just the boring stuff.

Windows 10 is good. Feels like a better Windows 7. (I am very critical of Windows 8.x.)

But it definitely feels buggy and drivers haven't caught up yet. I would not upgrade yet unless your machine is broken for some reason.

I tried, it crashed. I'm going to install ubuntu instead (I temporary put a debian).

I don't follow these things particularly closely.

So is this a new operating system, or is this just a new user interface? From a hardware standpoint, is there any benefit over Windows 7? Time is not cheap for me, and having to learn a new UI "just because" isn't my idea of an equitable use of time.

"All or nothing" Windows updates including drivers and non-security updates is a deal-breaker for me and I am quite sure it would be a deal-breaker where I work. This is the kind of sh** that made me never want to get an XBone.

The sad thing is, I'd really like to try Windows 10 for the same reason I wanted Windows 8. A vastly improved kernel.

Windows 8 added much more finely detailed resource scheduling. Even on crappy computers like my work laptop, Windows 8 tries its damnedest to hide the fact your computer sucks and is buffering. You'll actually see windows "jpeg out" (blur because they're a cache copy of the GUI while the app's UI thread takes its time responding to the paint request. This is opposed to the gigantic white screen you get in Windows 7 and earlier.)

Windows 8's task manager actually shows disk usage very clearly and cleanly in the task manager.

Windows 8 boots way faster.

But then again, 99% of the Windows 8 UI is a complete cluster !@#$! mess so it undoes everything great under-the-hood.

So, to re-iterate, I was hoping Windows 10 would be 8 with even less UI bull!@#$ and more kernel improvements. But I'm not touching it until it looks like that's the case. My time is money.

I read it was a vast improvement over Windows 8 (anything would be, in my opinion). The reason companies don't want to upgrade is because they are waiting for the bugs to be worked out. I still have Windows 7, but it is for a laptop that is not functioning. I have a copy of XP Home and a copy of XP Pro somewhere in the house. Worst case scenario, I will go to Fedora.

I'm already have a foot in Linux. (The VM approach works best for me except for 3-D acceleration, and things that use 3-D are games which are normally Windows only.)

I keep Windows for games and audio software (FL Studio). I also like the Windows 7 UI-specifically and no Linux stack I've seen has even remotely touched the amount of power user commands I use in Windows. That's also why I hate Windows 8. It completely !@#$'d up my power user commands.

But I still use Linux for all hobby dev work because Windows and Visual Studio are a heaping pile of dog !@#$. All of my friends/co-workers all use Visual Studio ... and they've become fairly dumb. They basically use Visual Studio and that's all they can do. They don't know how to debug, they know how to use Visual Studio's debugger. They don't know how to write code, they use Visual Studio's auto-complete.

The software is:
1- "Too good" for somethings, so people forget what's going on under-the-hood
2- "Too good AT ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY" so people learn the way Visual Studio does it, and they never realize there are other ways of doing things. They can't adapt to new solutions. ala They have a power drill, so everything looks like a screw. If they had a hammer and a screwdriver, they could use nails and screws.

I have co-workers freely admit they're scared now. They're scared of the unknown, and don't trust themselves anymore without Visual Studio reassuring them.

But that's for a separate thread I guess, since this is about Windows the OS, not the Microsoft toolchains.

And I basically bricked a laptop, and now can't do anything with it because it decided to installed a graphic driver or something and all I get is a blank screen, and all ways to get safe mode assumes you can use the damn thing! I need a boot disc.

Anyone know if a boot disc in the wrong CPU type (a 64-bit boot disc on a 32-bit OS) would work?

I skipped windows 8 totally. Windows 7 have worked great for me. As previous posters have said, it is probably best to wait a few months until one upgrades to Windows 10.

I am gonna upgrade. Time to move from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
Gonna start making apps/games for Windows 10 after that.