I'll hold off and let you guys deal with the early adopter issues. Probably won't upgrade for a few months at least.
You should be fine if you decide to do clean install. I generally experience wonkiness when i just upgrade my current windows. everything is fine now though.
The display driver seemed to be an issue through out the update process. My screen stopped working several times and then it never came back again. I even tried the motherboard port and it didn't work. I figured a power cycle would mess everything up but it didn't.
You know what Monkey, it works perfectly. All my stuff works, it remembered everything and all my stuff is still where I left it. Its fast and responsive too, no problems with anything. Really don't think you'd hit a problem upgrading now. Activation was to be expected due to server being hammered. They even put solitaire back in as standard after taking it out of 8, its the same store version but the Xbox Live link isn't there yet, apparently its coming. I've done an upgrade on my 4/5 year old laptop and everything works, no issues to report at all. I3, 4GB RAM and Samsung 840 SSD.
All the benchmarks I've seen show that Win 10 is a good 0.5% faster than 8. How can you not jump on that? I love how I can do command searches now without flashing to the stupid tile screen.
Everything is pretty dandy on my 8 year old netbook. Only issue is gestures not working on the touchpad. [Edit] scrolling actually works, it was just inverted
I'm pretty tempet to upgrade asap but I just know some of my software will break/have issues. I'll probably wait a week and just do it anyway.
After last nights successful install I now have a Windows 8.1 tablet and a work system installing Windows 10 to do some more tests. EDIT: Well it turns out the release date of the update to our enterprise virus scanner to support Win 10 isn't until the end of August so that's at least one thing that holds us back already. EDIT EDIT: I like tablet mode, its more friendly than using Windows 8.1 on a tablet was.
Updated my desktop PC from Windows 7 Pro to 10 using this tool of manual migration. No issues, this is an old PC and I expected W10 will crawl there but to my surprise it runs not worse than 7 did.
I really like tablet mode and being able to switch to desktop mode at the click of a button. I am using this little Windows Tablet more for quick tasks now and being able to use it for proper jobs if I need to is an added bonus.,
I think alot of people have the wrong assumption about windows and tend to overcompensate when they purchase a new system or upgrades. I was using only 2GB of ram up until 2009. And the reason wasn't because of windows. It was because of world of warcraft. I upgraded to 4GB and I was using that 4GB of ram up until 2014. I never had any issues with that 4GB. I only upgraded to 8GB because I upgraded to my current system and ram was cheap. CPU's aren't an issue either. Even that silly clovertrail atom processor was fine. You just have look at something like a Microsoft flagship device. The Surface Pro 3 comes with 4GB of ram. The new Surface 3 has 2GB of ram.
I upgraded to 32GB ram in 2012... I'm gonna run Win10 inside Win8.1 inside Win8 inside Win7Pro on a Win 7 Enterprise host just for the lolz
Actually, the biggest bottleneck now is the hard drive, it's a 7 years old wd drive and it possibly just dies slowly. Also, 1gb of ram doesn't help. I am thinking of replacing this with a new machine, something like 8gb of ram, integrated components should be fine for kids for next 5-7 years. But this time instead of a classic modular desktop, I consider an all-in-one or a mini pc.
Wouldn't install at all on one PC (gets caught in a boot loop during the Windows update process). Completely broke XBMC/Kodi on another (hardware acceleration doesn't work and instantly crashes videos). Super cryptic. No way to clean install without first upgrading through Windows update. And in the end, all it does is restore functionality that 8 took away from 7. Not really a compelling upgrade IMO if you are on 7 (though it is a big improvement over 8 ). And it has the weirdest, most annoying update process of any Windows yet. I don't understand why I can't just put it on a DVD or flash drive, put in my 7 or 8 key, and have it activate during the clean install process. Why make people have to go through Windows update, then most likely have to do a clean install anyway because updating Windows instead of clean installing is almost always a disaster? 7 worked perfectly and was the best version of Windows. I don't understand why MS couldn't just keep updating 7 forever basically. They keep trying to fix something that was never broken and fucking shit up in the process.
Yeah it's cryptic as fuck. It's like they want to be Apple now and just hide everything that's going on with the PC from the user.
You can create a DVD from ISO, google Windows 10 update tool, download that and choose create ISO. I have one for both 32 and 64 bit. You can clean install with it.
Yeah did that. Tried it on the PC that was in a boot loop. Still froze at the windows logo and kept boot looping even with the DVD. Also, I get the impression this OS is going to be a huge headache for enthusiasts who make frequent hardware changes. Is there even a place during a clean install where you can put in a windows key?