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[TerraSin]

Just now, Freyja Grimaude-Valens said:

I appreciate that you're trying to bring deals to me, but saying that it doesn't take much money isn't going to cause the money I need to make the purchases to magically appear on my lap.

Depending on how much you need to back up, you can use services like OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. for all the important files that need backed up. Another thing you can do is create a partition on your existing hard drive and move the files into that so they will not be erased when upgrading to 10. I've personally never had an issue with any of the computers I've migrated over but I understand the concern. There are ways around it though to protect your work without losing anything.

[Toddskins]

On 1/4/2020 at 9:54 AM, TerraSin said:

I hate to tell you this but if you have a smartphone, the same thing is going on. It's listening to you right now so it can use keywords to advertise to you better. Likewise, Google is spying on you every time you make a search, many programs send data back to their servers, Apple sends the same type of data to it's servers, if you have Facebook or use Amazon, your whole argument against Windows 10 gets thrown out the window, the list goes on.

As Promidi stated, the telemetry stuff can be turned off. It takes only a couple minutes to do and you can go deeper than the options if you wish and turn more off but you start to lose functionality which if you're not using a lot of that stuff, won't really matter. Automatic updates can likely be deferred or if you're brave, turned off completely though I would recommend keeping security updates on either way.

Also, firewalls are wonderful things.

Your words, and that of any others you find to support your suicide, can reside with yourself.

I do not use Google, Chrome, Facebook, or any other social media sites.  I use my phone for talking, and the dictionary app I have on it.  I don't let miserable Google know anything.   And I'm not about to let Microsoft know any more.

And why buy a spyware OS to begin with, when what I have is bullet proof and runs perfect?  Please.  No need to give a response.   Really.

[sarine]

In my experience every iteration of Windows has been an improvement over the previous, with one exception. I'm not talking about Vista, but Millennium Edition. 

I think the biggest factor in making Vista a fiasco was an innocent timing error / over-optimism by Microsoft; people were still rocking 32-bit single-core CPU's with 4GB of RAM, whereas some new backbone improvements in multitasking, e.g. multithreading, memory management and aggressive application pre-loading only began to make sense in a multi-core system with 8GB or more RAM, whereas much of it wasn't visible or was outright detrimental to performance on current hardware. The transition to 64-bit also made the experience better (early adopter here) and the contrast to 32-bit XP starker.

Out of all the different Windows versions from this millennium, my absolute worst was 64-bit XP; it just wasn't meant to be. Windows 8 was at least as smooth as 7 except for the input hang-ups (some issues with interrupts? I don't know.) and compatibility issues. Windows 10 also does this from time to time (simply stops responding), whereas I don't recall this ever happening on 7. In most other aspects Windows 10 has been the most stable Windows to this day, even if I can think of a dozen things to complain about right off the bat.

Edited January 16, 2020 by sarine