Tom's Hardware of Finland

Victor · March 21, 2019, 4:44pm

yep

Felix · March 21, 2019, 4:44pm

yes, by an enormous margin

toups · March 21, 2019, 4:45pm

how hard is it to get it to work more like windows 7 in terms of workflow and layout and stuff

or is it even possible

toups · March 21, 2019, 4:46pm

also like explain bc that does not seem to a universally held opinion

meauxdal · March 21, 2019, 4:47pm

10 >>> 7, it’s not really that controversial in 2019

Victor · March 21, 2019, 4:48pm

toups what do you think you are going to lose it is the same except the start menu and control panel look different and the ui chrome is black just hide the cortana search or whatever

meauxdal · March 21, 2019, 4:49pm

re: layout/workflow, you can use classic shell to make the start menu more like 7 (not really needed, was more useful in 8/8.1)

toups · March 21, 2019, 4:50pm

I don’t know, I haven’t spent much time with Windows 10 but from what time I’ve spent I loathe the new UI and everything feels way harder to get to/less intuitive

Maybe I’m just old and grumpy.

Also I don’t wanna pay for it.

Felix · March 21, 2019, 4:52pm

why pay for something when if you apply yourself you can get it for free

this is how software works:

toups · March 21, 2019, 4:56pm

is it still easy to crack windows in 2019

should we… take this discussion to the axe

Felix · March 21, 2019, 4:56pm

I don’t know, I did it in 2016 and promptly forgot after the half hour I spent learning it

toups · March 21, 2019, 4:57pm

even getting my crack for windows 7 to work reliably was a big pain

meauxdal · March 21, 2019, 4:57pm

i did it two months ago. it’s still trivial: get kmspico, press button, done

doolittle · March 21, 2019, 5:00pm

Microsoft doesn’t even ding you for not activating it besides nagging because it’s on them if there’s a botnet of pirated windows boxes out there.

toups · March 21, 2019, 5:14pm

so I guess it would be better to upgrade windows before upgrading hardware

doolittle · March 21, 2019, 5:19pm

I would suggest a fresh installation you restore applications on to so you’re not cleaning up all of your old drivers and registry cruft. Is there some software you’re concerned about bringing over?

Worth mentioning the single best improvement in Windows 10 is driver management - almost always automatic unless you have a peculiar component. It’ll pull down all of your motherboard/gpu/etc. drivers when you do the install.

doolittle · March 21, 2019, 5:31pm

If you install the education version it doesn’t even put Candy Crush in the start menu.

toups · March 21, 2019, 5:53pm

I don’t have a lot of like, umm for lack of a better word AAA software installed so I’m not sure if restoring would really work. lots of smaller programs and weird unlicensed stuff and I just like… idk, seems risky?

parker · March 21, 2019, 5:55pm

I love how pirated games have the option to not write anything to registry/start menu now

doolittle · March 21, 2019, 6:16pm

If they’re widely distributed you can use the excellent utility @Felix turned me on to, choco

Dunno about pirated games except that I’ve been running Outrun 2006 out of my Documents folder for seven years.