Windows 10 (Early) Review

lol Ah alright, get it now. Didn't even realize there were wrenches in that picture. Maybe microsoft is trying to hint at something there. (That's a stock image Microsoft put in the intro app.)

I was pleased that it didn't erase my HD partitions and overwrite Linux. Installation was pretty simple....no wrenches required.

 

Haven't ran across any apps that don't work yet (I'm sure they are out there though).
Had a problem with wifi but resolved after I manually updated the drivers.
I really wish Microsoft would get with the program and allow repair disks to be made on hard drives. The majority of newer laptops do not even have a place to put a CD/DVD.

I like Edge and have been favoring it over Chrome. I have been having some hanging problems when making edits to text files online (starts to hang after you make several saves). Overall it is MUCH better than IE.
I can't bring myself to use Cortana. Feel like an idiot talking to my computer/tablet/any electronic. I like just prefer the old fashioned click and type method. (And her jokes are horrible.)
I have never like how Windows forces a restart to finish installing patches/updates and that it will go ahead and restart for you after a certain time period. (I have Linux also installed on this computer and when it resets it automatically boots into Linux....and I'm too lazy to change the boot order. )

Before Windows 10 I had 8.1 installed and I had all but given up on Windows and almost all my computer use was done on Linux. Since I installed Windows 10 I have rarely used Linux.

 

I updated to windows 10 when it was free. I have no idea if they are still running that promo or not. I didn't know Vista was still a thing, I upgraded from Windows 8 myself. When you upgrade Windows 10 saves a backup of the old OS so you can revert back if things don't go well. No idea if that actually works or how to go about reverting to your older version as I would have rather have deleted Windows all together and completely move over to Linux than go back to Windows 8.

The only problems I've had were some issues with the sound drivers. That was resolved by doing a few Google searches and downloading an ridiculously large driver for my computer model.

 

Oddly enough my windows 8.1 version was a pirated copy. I was so fed up with the official 8.1 originally installed on my PC that I deleted the legal copy from my computer and moved over to Linux. I only downloaded the pirated copy and reinstalled it again while I was working because Open Office was screwing up the overly complex excel document the government demand I submit every week.

Spoiler: Tax money at work

Open Office didn't actually screw anything up, it just changed the colors of the different tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet and that drove one of the anal retentive turd burglar in the US crazy for some retarded reason.....which involved me having to be involved in teleconferences to the US to explain why his blue tab was now all of a sudden green....every single week. I'd rather watch 100 hours of non-stop AFN commercials than listen to that /-\sshat go on about the color of the godd°mn excel tab colors for one more minute. I did have a coworker in the US that was an office mate of the turd burglar that loved trolling the sh°t out of him that kept giving me the password to unlock the spreadsheet so I could anonymously make typos, change formulas and hide nasty comments in the very last row/collumn.

So, I believe that the free download light be connected to your MS online account and not so much on the legitimacy of your current Windows installation. Then again, maybe I just had a really good pirated copy.