[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

[Arthur Flexser]

Thanks to all who responded.  Given the somewhat surprising unanimity of
opinion, I will be upgrading to Windows 10 very soon.

Art

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Francis Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:

> My experience on a desktop and a laptop have been pretty much the same.
> Windows 10 is wat Windows 8 should have been. MS is notorious for running
> products out that aren't fully ready (in many people's opinions),
> especially Windows. Takes a couple iterations to get it smooth and
> "right".   My HP desktop worked fine, I had to load new touch pad drivers
> for my Asus laptop (couldn't turn the touchpad off with the FN key... don't
> know if other FN key functions worked or not) from Asus. The only problem
> I've had is running Oracle's Virtualbox. It runs fine, but I can't get it
> to successfully boot Linux Mint. Had it running fine under 8.1. Downloaded
> a new ISO of the latest Mint since I had to install the latest Virtualbox
> (the version I had on Win 8.1 wouldn't run on 10). That freezes when Mint
> starts to boot, so I tried the version of Mint I had installed (from a CD)
> on Win 8.1. That did the same thing. That was 2-3 weeks ago. Oracle may
> have another update now, will have to try that. Tried booting directly from
> the ISO image (there is now an option for that) and that was a no-go too. I
> might need to go to the HP site and see if there are newer Win 10 drivers
> for the hardware as I did with the laptop. Funny, didn't think about that
> until now!! Could be the problem...
>
> ===================================================
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:32:55 +0000From: Eddie P. <eddiepl75 at hotmail.com
> >
>
> I've found after upgrading my HP Pavilion laptop from Win7 to Win10 it
> runs a lot smoother and quicker. Boots a lots faster as well.
> I did have hardware compatibility issues in the beginning but once it
> matured and updates came through it was great.
> The biggest thing that has impressed me is how well it runs on slightly
> older hardware.
>
> Eddie P.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 21 Nov 2015, at 7:30 PM, 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?
> >  Frank Swygert
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