Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Windows 10 - ongoing verdict

Ok first things first I actually really like Windows 10, I didn't want to since I've always considered Microshaft to be pretty damn evil and rally to the call of GNU and Linux.
So far I like it though even from the very simple upgrade with the nice soothing messages that glow occasionally to let you know what's going on.
These are minor issues I've had in using it only for a few hours, no doubt I'll add to it as I use it more.  The good thing is that all my CUDA projects and Netbeans java stuff just work :)

  1. I hibernated the laptop at home, when I got to work I was unable to login because windows simply reported "you are offline please use the last login used on this device to login" I obviously tried this and the little spinning blobs appeared next to the word welcome only for me to be faced with the same "you are offline..." message about 15 seconds later.  Since I'd not been in the office until that day I didn't have any of the wifi details configured and it's only through sheer luck that I had a connected cable that was within reach.
  2. The scroll is annoying firstly when using the gesture scroll of my touchpad the vertical scroll is in the wrong direction i.e. Scroll top to bottom on the touchpad would scroll the text up the screen in the same way as if I'd been using a touch screen.  Then for some reason the scroll simply stopped working altogether.
  3. System freezing, I've been experiencing moments of around 4-15 seconds of the mouse not moving and no windows responding I think this is occurring because something is going on in the background, I'd like to know what's going on in the background.
  4. The email viewer lets me open an email so it appears in the view pane but without using the mouse to select the view pane there's no simple way to scroll the mail using the keyboard, in fact the default is not to allow scrolling controlled by caret.
  5. The default of having everything scalled by 150% is ludicrous, I paid extra for a full hd screen so of course I want to be able to use it to view my source code rather than have windows scale all the text so it looks massive, if I wanted to use a 640x480 display from the 90's I'd use my ancient netbook!
I do really like Windows 10 though and I am one of the developers that is being won back, I even used edge and despite how much I wanted to hate it I really didn't.  There were annoyances but it was much better than ieX [X being any version of that pile]

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