[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

[Bill Loguidice]

I've had mostly good experiences with the upgrade, all of which were done
as in-place upgrades either from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Upgraded systems
include two Surface Pro 3s, one Surface Pro 2, an Asus Ultrabook, an
iBuyPower Desktop, an older Sager gaming laptop, and a Lenovo Yoga, among
others. The only one I ran into a hiccup with was the older Sager Gaming
laptop, which didn't find a working video driver at first. In that case I
had to manually download the correct Nvidia driver. After that, it worked
perfectly. My father-in-law also had a cheap Dell tablet that didn't want
to upgrade from 8 to 10 because there were no available drivers for some of
the stuff. Fortunately, it knows when it fails and just reverted back to
the old OS.

Windows 10 is definitely better on non-touch systems (and even touch
systems like the Surface Pro 3, where I can decide when I want an app, like
the Kindle app, to run full screen or not), and you don't even have to use
something like Classic Shell anymore (I mostly used Start8). The Start menu
is close enough to the old way of doing things on OS's like Windows 7.

It seems that so far, most things are fully compatible (at least I haven't
run into anything that doesn't work). I haven't personally run into any
issues, which is expected, since this is really just a minor evolution over
the already rock solid Windows 7 and 8.1.

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On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> I realize this is really, really seriously off-topic, and that there is
> ample information/reviews elsewhere.  But, I'm curious to have the
> impressions of CoCo people, whose opinions I greatly value, on whether I
> should take Microsoft up on the free upgrade they occasionally urge me to
> take advantage of.  I currently have Windows 8.1 and am pretty happy with
> it.  I use Classic Shell, so I don't have to experience the
> Metro/Modern/whatever they are calling it now interface except when I
> choose to.  (There are a couple of apps I use, so I am glad to have them so
> long as they don't get in my way.)  I have a pretty fast desktop, a Dell
> XPS 8500 with plenty of hard drive space and 8 GB of memory, so I don't
> think the hardware will be a problem.
>
> So, any impressions from people here who are Windows 10 users?
>
> Art
>