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If Windows 10 would behave like Windows 7 with the extra features (newer UI, UEFI, that stuff), I would've welcomed it, hell, with the company I wouldn't even bat an eye to pay for retail copies. Why did MS remove 'My Computer'? Oh, because USE THE FUCKING CLOUD YOU MORON! MANAGING YOUR OWN DATA IS SO 1998! WHY WOULD YOU NEED ANYTHING OTHER THAN ONEDRIVE (which is preinstalled, but fortunately still, uninstallable)?" It kinda works (but no 'Manage' option on right-click, since it's a user shortcut, not a system one). Where is that option? Looks, looks, looks and gives up Fine then, I'll just create a shortcut if there's no 'real' 'My Computer' for the desktop. "My computer on the desktop, I need that. "Can I add shortcuts to the start menu? NOPE! THIS IS NOW OUR ADVERTISING SPACE!" At least Windows 7 asked me each time, so this shit wouldn't happen. Also, every app I installed now has an exception on public and not on private, so I have to not only add the exception on private, but remove it on public too. "Oh, defaulting to 'public network' is nice. Since you asked, the following may be a bit non-conformant to HN standards, so I'll set it in quotes, it's my post/rant on FB venting my initial frustrations with Windows 10: ""Why does less information fit on my laptop despite it having the same resolution as my desktop? OMFG, who the fuck resetted my display scaling?" I have no problems with the defaults being made to accustom the computer illiterate, but you should allow power users to do whatever they want to a their PCs, and this is what MS doesn't allow (anymore, or at least, not in ways that they previously allowed). Which I did, so at least my Windows 10 installation is a "local" installation.īut when you stop to think about it: Are we living in a sane world, when I have to "fool" my PC/OS in order to get it to act in a certain kind of way? That, in a nutshell, is my biggest gripe with Windows 10. I read about the tying to an online account, and also read that keeping the PC offline while installing is a useful remedy.
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but if anyone finds out how to get Windows 7's VGA.sys working with GOP or knows a 3rd party alternative to it, I'm all ears! Subjectively, it doesn't feel like a PC with an OS anymore, more like an advanced XBOX with mouse and keyboard.ĮDIT. This was my first own PC with Windows 10, and I thought I might have a change of heart, but it's truly quite terrible. My new laptop now has Windows 10, because I'm currently developing some windows applications, but once I'm done with that, it's over to Linux.

I'm glad I recently still got Windows 7 onto desktop, 2nd-gen Ryzen platforms, but I fear that that was one of the last modern PC platforms to be able to run Windows 7.
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I'm one of those users holding on to Windows 7 as long as possible, and I'm really glad that people are also interested and motivated to keep it running for as long as possible.īut I recently got a new laptop, a Ryzen 3550H with the Vega 8 iGPU, and then had to discover, that a) there aren't any drivers for Vega 8 for Windows 7 and b) my laptop's firmware doesn't provide any legacy BIOS emulation required to get Windows 7 running (explicitly: INT10H and VBIOS are required by the fallback Windows 7 graphics driver (VGA.sys), which also runs during setup and PE ).
