Sunday, February 21, 2016

Windows 10 is dead to me

Yup, I've had it with Win10. I've blogged about trying to install the damn thing on a test PC but I was going to use it on a trip.  The night before I was leaving, it hiccuped. The laptop's display started flickering. I tried rebooting and then it would only boot into a repair screen. 

Well none of the repairs worked even though it would say encouraging things about the various things I tried. When the computer rebooted, it was back to the old repair screen. So much for repair - it seemed to me liike listening to a PR flack.

I didn't have the guts to Reset the PC. The option says you get to save your files but then it tells you that NONE of the programs that don't come with Win10 will be saved. What use is that?

The last thing I tried seemed to work. It was rolling back to a restore point. After waiting an hour for it to stop saying it was rebooting and actually reboot, I forced it to power down and it rebooted. Great! Oh, wait, after I logged in it wanted to upgrade to Windows 10. Aha, it has gone back to Windows 7. Think I'll stay there too.

I've seen articles about how those annoying Upgrade to W10 will eventually turn into 'Hey we updated you to Windows 10'.  It had better not happen to me.

Linux is looking better and better.

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