After waiting a year for the overly hyped next generation Windows, I finally did the upgrade two weeks ago. Last night, I downgraded back to Windows 7. Why? Because despite what Microsoft & it's PR says, it is a complete disaster.
My machine is a HP Pavilion desktop, probably 5 years old. 640 GB hard drive, 4 GB of RAM. Have never had a problem with it. Until I installed this virus ( that's what 10 is, because it wrecks performance).
Hows this for an improved OS: Turn on your computer, wait 5 minutes for the OS to load, except that it still hasn't. The little blue circle is still spinning, your desktop icons are still not on the status bar & you can't even click on settings or the power button. Therefore you have to hard shut the computer (which is NEVER recommended), & reboot. Sometimes I did this three times before it finally loaded. It also, when it was actually working, wouldn't close properly. Meaning you would click shut down, the monitor would go blank but power was still on for several minutes. Wow, what a POS.
Now why did this happen? Because Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, released this pile of junk before it was ready. It was never supposed to come out in the middle of summer. Maybe the fall. But they were in a hurry to get publicity & get new computers on the market with 10 for the fall school sales.
So I am back on Windows 7, the last good OS. It took a while to boot this morning because last night it had to load 17 updates that I missed the 2 weeks I was on Windows Snail. Take my advice; stay away from this joke. Heck Chrome OS is probably better & that's just a browser. Linux? Well I hate that & MacOS is quite pricey. Maybe all I need is an iPad, except that I like my 18" monitor.
