Windows 10 Preview is out & It's Great

[tetrasect]

If you want a fast, stable, easy to use operating system Give Linux mint a try. Very user friendly -I told my Gran it's the windows and she has no problem. Also cut down the time I spend fixing it to zero.

As for Win10, I will have to give a spin before I pass judgement. Just deciding whether to wait for it to come out of developers preview or not...

I used to run ubuntu and it was amazing. Set it up so nicely with themes and compiz and stuff it was pure eye candy. Unfortunately the drive it was on crashed so I went back to booting from my windows drive.

Should get another drive to put linux on actually... I just remember after spending weeks researching and learning and fine-tuning that OS to my idea of perfection I got so pissed off when it broke... I couldn't face doing all that work again, trying to set it up to be identical to that perfect build... I just knew I could never get it the same again so I threw the drive in the bush and tried never to think about it again lol

 

[RATZ]

LoL @tetrasect I feel your pain.
Having the ability to customise my system to exactly how I want/need it to be is a big draw for me. I like that I tell the computer what to do, not the other way around. My Home machine is totally different to my work PC, even though it is the same OS.

After having a dual boot system for a while I realised I hadn't booted windows in years. So I wiped it.
Now I have separate drives for \root (OS) and \Home (files and settings). It makes life a lot easier. Also being in IT, I have backups of my backups.

That said, my secret to happiness -(OS agnostic)-
drive 1; OS
drive 2; Documents
Drive 3; Games
Drive 4; Backup (external preferably)
Drive 5; Cloud backup of critical data

Each drive only has to be as big as necessary. Windows is quite happy on 80GB drive. Media on it's own drive as big as you can afford. This offers a bit of affordable redundancy and prolongs disk life because it limits disk wear.

 

[Gizmo]

 

[johan]

Thanks Gizmo, but thank God for Linux .

 

[huffnpuff]

Microsoft officially announced that, for the first year of Windows 10, upgrading will be free from Windows 7 upwards....INCLUDING PIRATED VERSIONS:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873...a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-users.html

 

[Gazzacpt]

Is it worth getting the technical preview or just wait for the commercial release?

 

[free3dom]

Microsoft officially announced that, for the first year of Windows 10, upgrading will be free from Windows 7 upwards....INCLUDING PIRATED VERSIONS:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873...a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-users.html

That's not entirely accurate...you can upgrade a pirated version, but it will still remain unlicensed...nothing free about that

 

[huffnpuff]

That's not entirely accurate...you can upgrade a pirated version, but it will still remain unlicensed...nothing free about that

Aaah, you're right. Missed the small print. Microsoft's angle is "[a]nyone with a qualified device can upgrade to Windows 10, including those with pirated copies of Windows. We believe customers over time will realize the value of properly licensing Windows and we will make it easy for them to move to legitimate copies."

 

[free3dom]

Aaah, you're right. Missed the small print. Microsoft's angle is "[a]nyone with a qualified device can upgrade to Windows 10, including those with pirated copies of Windows. We believe customers over time will realize the value of properly licensing Windows and we will make it easy for them to move to legitimate copies."

They caught everyone out with that fine print...sneaky buggers

 

[BhavZ]

There is nothing better than a fresh install

Queue fight scene lol

 

[Jase]

Linus has some of the best youtube videos!

 

[BhavZ]

Linus has some of the best youtube videos!

Would be nice though if he would speak in a bit of a lower tone