Yeah Windows 8+ really has far better compatibility for drivers than any previous version of Windows.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/07/25/simplifying-printing-in-windows-8/
Do I want Windows 10?
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Yeah Windows 8+ really has far better compatibility for drivers than any previous version of Windows.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/07/25/simplifying-printing-in-windows-8/
All right, I'll pare it down to the most important two.
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Besides those there were two or three mentions of soft bricking caused by Windows updates. And my mention of notifications is true, you can't disable them, which would not be a problem if they were MacOS notifications, you know, about your computer, or Android notifications, which I've had excessive experience with as an owner of three Androids, but they're ad and spam bullcrap which does absolutely nothing to enhance my experience or my awareness of my computer. Which MacOS and Android do succeed in.
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Besides those there were two or three mentions of soft bricking caused by Windows updates. And my mention of notifications is true, you can't disable them, which would not be a problem if they were MacOS notifications, you know, about your computer, or Android notifications, which I've had excessive experience with as an owner of three Androids, but they're ad and spam bullcrap which does absolutely nothing to enhance my experience or my awareness of my computer. Which MacOS and Android do succeed in.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
The really fun ones were the customers who swore that they never used the machine until the day before and it wouldn't work. And when i booted it up it had every fake antivirus, antimalware, 70+ IE toolbars, 864 various icons on the desktop, every kind of malware and adware in existence and every porn site in existence on their favorites. Meanwhile the inside of the machine had 3 pounds of cat hair and what looked like dryer lint. Other machines had the whole case turned yellow and were all sticky from smoking....the boss was careful not to let me speak my mind to the customers.
Not really important. Anecdotes common to any OS/version of Windows.
Seriously, "broke my mysql database" is not a common method of Windows 10 failure.
For anecdotes, of my half-dozen Win10 installs that I manage outside of corporate setups, *none* of them have ever broken from an update, three of the six are still performing great since the initial release of Win10, and the other two are doing great since the PC purchase. (The sixth had an install hooped after some buggy developer software overwrote some critical system files.) Until last year I also had a laptop that shipped with Win8, and performed flawlessly with updates to Win8.1, and then Win10.
Stop trying to use the term "brick". It's not applicable in the context of operating system problems, and makes you look like you don't know what you're talking about.
I don't get ad notifications on any of my win10 PCs. You must be doing something wrong. Seriously, I have never had an ad notification. If those were a thing, I'd immediately stop using Win10.
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It's not a method of failure, it's a symptom of failure. I have zero tolerance for other people's - supposed professionals - screwups impacting my work.
A soft brick, is usually just when your phone is stuck in a bootloop, and as the name implies, is caused by a software error
I can't replicate it now, but it used to happen to me. I did go through an update or two before I blocked them, so it's probably something similar to what these guys are saying, which is what I fixed by stopping Microsoft from covertly changing my settings for me against my will.
AdmiralShnorkins
Except that doesn’t even work. I’ve had all notifications off for years, and now they just push them regardless
jumpiz 1 point 2 months ago
Yep, they push them all again on every new update. I have to change the settings every time.
A soft brick, is usually just when your phone is stuck in a bootloop, and as the name implies, is caused by a software error
I can't replicate it now, but it used to happen to me. I did go through an update or two before I blocked them, so it's probably something similar to what these guys are saying, which is what I fixed by stopping Microsoft from covertly changing my settings for me against my will.
AdmiralShnorkins
Except that doesn’t even work. I’ve had all notifications off for years, and now they just push them regardless
jumpiz 1 point 2 months ago
Yep, they push them all again on every new update. I have to change the settings every time.
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ah well the latest win10 update did someone change my default audio device to headphones even though I had none plugged in. So my speakers weren't working. Only took me 30 seconds to fix it in control panel though. But for non tech people I can see how that would be frustrating.
It also messed up a couple desktop shortcuts, I have no idea how or why. Maybe windows defender thought they were viruses, but the target location said doesn't exist even though it did. I just remade them.
It also messed up a couple desktop shortcuts, I have no idea how or why. Maybe windows defender thought they were viruses, but the target location said doesn't exist even though it did. I just remade them.
Zelig, what/when is the next version of Windows looking like?
It added a bunch of audio options to the new-style control panels, including some features new to Windows (per-app output selection), so not surprising that something may have got reset in that process. IIRC I saw something similar on one of my systems, where the default communication device got set differently than the default device for some reason.
I've got better-than-even odds that Win10 is the last version of Windows.
Since Win10, Windows engineering efforts have been reorganized to delivering a major update to Windows every six months (of which they've delivered five so far.) There aren't really the development resources or organizational capacity to simultaneously develop a separate major update on a three-year cycle (like previous versions of Windows).
At this point, the original release of Windows 10 is closer to Windows 8.1 than it is to the current 1803 version of Windows 10.
edit: Also, Windows 10, with the Anniversary Update, *finally* achieved the "Windows NT everywhere" dream they'd been working on for the better part of two decades. Common kernel, and shared updates to mobile, desktop, server, IoT, xbox. They've since killed off mobile (but added full Windows 10 on ARM with x86 emulation! and ported SQL Server to Linux), and while Windows as a whole may have various issues, the flexibility and strength Windows NT is really a triumph of engineering.
https://arstechnica.com/information...-all-how-windows-everywhere-finally-happened/
I keep meaning to read Showstopper!
https://blog.codinghorror.com/showstopper/
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You're completely correct, there is no OS that does that.
No, it does not.
zxcvbob
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In my experience, yes it does. I've updated twice, and both times all my custom settings were gone (including registry changes that were hard to find) and it filled my start menu up with craptastic games and stuff. But when windows 10 works (between updates) it works well.
It really doesn't.
Registry values aren't really user settings, they're internal OS settings - there's never been guarantee of registry settings being preserved between OS updates, minor or major, in any version of Windows. The appropriate place to set configuration which isn't in the regular control panel is as group policies, which do not get reset, and which have appropriate documentation about deprecation.
The installation of winstore spam to the start menu was awful, but hasn't been the case in years.
Registry values aren't really user settings, they're internal OS settings - there's never been guarantee of registry settings being preserved between OS updates, minor or major, in any version of Windows. The appropriate place to set configuration which isn't in the regular control panel is as group policies, which do not get reset, and which have appropriate documentation about deprecation.
The installation of winstore spam to the start menu was awful, but hasn't been the case in years.
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I remember it doing such very well, it's why I blocked microsoft's IP addresses. I think I've mentioned this four times now. And I've quoted other people saying the exact same thing about four times also. And bob is chiming in. Consider the following: you're wrong.
April 7, 2017 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/creators-update-privacy-settings-upgrade,34093.html
February 24, 2016: https://securityintelligence.com/ne...to-default-settings-causing-user-frustration/
Apr 3, 2016 https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1535835-win-10-update-resets-privacy-again
MAR 12, 2018 https://www.computerworld.com/artic...chines-specifically-set-to-block-updates.html
February 24, 2016: https://securityintelligence.com/ne...to-default-settings-causing-user-frustration/
Apr 3, 2016 https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1535835-win-10-update-resets-privacy-again
MAR 12, 2018 https://www.computerworld.com/artic...chines-specifically-set-to-block-updates.html
