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Palum_sl said:
I've been using classic shell 8 since I had to upgrade some of my work machines. Unfortunately other people or stations in the organization aren't so lucky and have RDS which is, you guessed it, Win 8 vanilla. Like I said 10 is OK, haven't really touched settings much, but I just am frustrated I have to fiddle around with shit constantly to get it to work directly like an OS should. If I want games I should install them. If I want huge ass tiles with idiotic msnbc bing news in my start menu, I should put it there. Just aggravatingevery fucking timeI have to deal with a new Win 8 box (and from my experiences so far the same with Win 10) it's loaded with 'UI bloatware' even when it's a clean install.

I'm just grumbling of course and I'm sure some kids who don't know what a floppy disk is and a bunch of Grandmas love that their sports news and freemium facebook bullshit came preinstalled but meh, I shouldn't have to do this shit on Pro editions. That said I don't think I've installed Win 10 'pro' yet, just the home one but I'm guessing it's the same way Win 8/.1 was with 'HI LET ME INSTALL ALL THESE FUCKING WORTHLESS APPS WHILE I TAKE 43 MINUTES TO MAKE YOUR PROFILE AND SIGN YOU UP FOR OFFICE 365!'
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Ha ha, well if you are dealing with Windows 8 vanilla installations at work, I can fully understand the angst; but windows in the corporate environment is a different discussion anyways.

I was only talking about Win 10 at home, and if a few default tiles in your start menu annoy you thaaaaat much, well you are one SALTY mutha-fucker! Heh =P
 
Skanda

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X X E X X_sl said:
10 feels like a great middle ground between 7 and 8 to me.
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I wouldn't use the word great but this is generally how I feel as well. It's finally enough to where I'm willing to upgrade from Win7 but I will very much be keeping an eye on Stardock to see if they can pull out the rest of what I hate about the Win8 interface.
 
Alkorin

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I gotta say, I'm a bit confused. There is almost nothing left from Win8 that is mandatory. What do you feel you need to turn off at this point? (I'm talking build 10162)
 
Skanda

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The entire ugly ass flat colored UI theme. Aero 4 lyfe!

The Win8 theme is just plain hideous to me. Hence my reliance on Stardock.
 
Frenzied Wombat

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Palum_sl said:
I've been using classic shell 8 since I had to upgrade some of my work machines. Unfortunately other people or stations in the organization aren't so lucky and have RDS which is, you guessed it, Win 8 vanilla. Like I said 10 is OK, haven't really touched settings much, but I just am frustrated I have to fiddle around with shit constantly to get it to work directly like an OS should. If I want games I should install them. If I want huge ass tiles with idiotic msnbc bing news in my start menu, I should put it there. Just aggravatingevery fucking timeI have to deal with a new Win 8 box (and from my experiences so far the same with Win 10) it's loaded with 'UI bloatware' even when it's a clean install.

I'm just grumbling of course and I'm sure some kids who don't know what a floppy disk is and a bunch of Grandmas love that their sports news and freemium facebook bullshit came preinstalled but meh, I shouldn't have to do this shit on Pro editions. That said I don't think I've installed Win 10 'pro' yet, just the home one but I'm guessing it's the same way Win 8/.1 was with 'HI LET ME INSTALL ALL THESE FUCKING WORTHLESS APPS WHILE I TAKE 43 MINUTES TO MAKE YOUR PROFILE AND SIGN YOU UP FOR OFFICE 365!'
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What's really sad is the way MS forklifted the Metro interface into server editions of Windows. Server OS's should all be about efficiency with zero focus on aesthetics and gimmicky GUI's. Yet load up Windows 2012 R2 and you get a totally illogical Server Manager UI and of course a tile based start menu. All I care about when I work on a server is speed/efficiency-- the fucking GUI could be in black and white, and if it made things faster I would be all for it. Same for their enterprise apps-- Exchange 2013 is a painful, slow, web based interface focused on hiding everything within some aesthetically pleasing design. Just give me back my responsive Exchange 2003 MMC dammit..
 
Agraza

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Just tried to upgrade to Win10 at home this morning and it failed. That sucks. Googling workarounds now. Was expecting it to go smoothly.

Second time's the charm. No workarounds, it just succeeded for some reason.
 
radditsu

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Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
What's really sad is the way MS forklifted the Metro interface into server editions of Windows. Server OS's should all be about efficiency with zero focus on aesthetics and gimmicky GUI's. Yet load up Windows 2012 R2 and you get a totally illogical Server Manager UI and of course a tile based start menu. All I care about when I work on a server is speed/efficiency-- the fucking GUI could be in black and white, and if it made things faster I would be all for it. Same for their enterprise apps-- Exchange 2013 is a painful, slow, web based interface focused on hiding everything within some aesthetically pleasing design. Just give me back my responsive Exchange 2003 MMC dammit..
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THIS!!!!!!!!!! Our 2012 Domain controllers are garbage. Wsus server barely works. I do everything from admin tools in my desktop
 
Araxen

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How long am I going to have to wait to be able to do a clean install of 10 after release? I almost want to install the preview right now but for whatever reason when I installed 8 on this PC Windows decided to put the boot partition on one HD and the system partition on my spare HD I have installed on this computer. This means Windows right now I can't boot without both drives being hooked up. The moral of this story is when installing Windows only have one internal HD hooked up.
 
Mist

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Araxen_sl said:
How long am I going to have to wait to be able to do a clean install of 10 after release? I almost want to install the preview right now but for whatever reason when I installed 8 on this PC Windows decided to put the boot partition on one HD and the system partition on my spare HD I have installed on this computer. This means Windows right now I can't boot without both drives being hooked up. The moral of this story is when installing Windows only have one internal HD hooked up.
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Probably soon after the 29th.
 
Agraza

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Man, Win10 10130 basically bricked my machine with a "shell infrastructure host" critical error. I spent half a day trying to recover and only dug myself deeper. Lame as hell. I'm on 10166 now, but I've taken a few precautions against getting locked out.
 
Mist

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Supposedly the current build on the fast ring today is the RTM build, but I don't think there will be ISOs available for a while.
 
meStevo

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Getting there, sound like at least one more fast ring build before the 29th.
 
Izo

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Windoze 10 - is it a vista or a 7? Do I want 10 or should I take the apple but plug os?
 
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I finally got a PC out and installed it. My impression as someone who dislikes 8(.1), I don't understand why people wasted time complaining about the icons when the entire OS looks like dogshit. I think if you had a problem with the aesthetics of Windows 8, you will not like Windows 10.

There are also questionable UX choices such as removing the standardized active/background window title bar colouring, apparently every application is allowed to choose its own colour (taste the rainbow...) so if you have a lot of screen real estate good luck determining what has focus.
 
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Microsoft has now finalized Windows 10, ready for its release later this month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software giant has selected build 10240 as the final release to manufacturing (RTM) copy, allowing PC makers to start loading the software onto new machines ready for release.

Anyone have a link for that build - the last one I have is 10162
 
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