Should I Upgrade To Windows 10

p2 · Post Post #24 (isolation #0) » Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:41 am

if they start trying to charge a yearly subscription fee or something,
i'll just make a short and tasteful visit to the pirate bay
or maybe i'll go back to 8.1
or maybe i'll switch to ubuntu
choices it's so nice to have choices

p2 · Post Post #26 (isolation #1) » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:23 am

the real question:
will you switch to spartan?

p2 · Post Post #28 (isolation #2) » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:29 am

That's actually really concerning. Microsoft must still want to profit from its OS, after all.

p2 · Post Post #36 (isolation #3) » Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:16 pm

Can someone please convince me to switch to linux.
It would give me another way to feel different and special, but I need an actual reason.

p2 · Post Post #40 (isolation #4) » Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:10 am

but if window 10 became a subscription service then for a lot of people it would equate to holding their computers hostage
it just wouldn't work out

p2 · Post Post #42 (isolation #5) » Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:50 pm

All of that can be turned off, though. Just like you can set a Windows 8 computer to start up at the desktop instead of the start screen. It just takes a little fiddling that you can leave to someone else.

p2 · Post Post #46 (isolation #6) » Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:20 am

I think you're sort of underestimating how much you're missing out on!
But I guess I can't really discern how much either.

p2 · Post Post #48 (isolation #7) » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:27 am

i haven't decided yet

p2 · Post Post #55 (isolation #8) » Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:13 pm

you never actually had to use the apps

p2 · Post Post #64 (isolation #9) » Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:32 am

I just use the search thing. Open the start menu and just start typing the name of the program I want and then press enter. Windows 8's indexing is so decent that it always returns what you're looking for; in practice this is much faster on average than storing shortcuts on the desktop.

p2 · Post Post #71 (isolation #10) » Wed Jun 17, 2015 4:49 am

using the mouse is like using your foot

p2 · Post Post #76 (isolation #11) » Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:25 am

see, i didn't even know you could get to the control panel that way

p2 · Post Post #78 (isolation #12) » Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:22 am

Your method requires typing, which probably almost always takes longer than clicking a pinned taskbar icon, no matter how fast you type.

Don't think so. And you're totally underestimating the generality and preserved screen space of my method.

Also, iirc opening the control panel before Windows 8 required opening the Start Menu and then clicking an icon. Totally not tech.

p2 · Post Post #80 (isolation #13) » Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:42 am

what a waste

p2 · Post Post #90 (isolation #14) » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:41 pm

knowing how to search for something in Windows 8 is essentially the same as knowing where it is

p2 · Post Post #121 (isolation #15) » Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:47 pm

i don't like how avast always has to remind you that it's there