I couldn't get the goodies I wanted in Win-8 to activate entirely, because Mighty Microsoft said "Windows 8 is no longer supported." I wonder if they've seen the website for NetMarketShare lately, showing a pie chart that is over half devoted to Wonderful Windows 7. About 52% if I recall correctly, as of last month. So tell me again how fantastic Windows 10 is, please - I dare you!
And the first thing I did after the install finished was to discombobulate Cortana, the most all-inclusive piece off spyware ever flogged on the unsuspecting rubes who blithely grab these freebies and run with them. So my brief escapade down Memory Lane with old familiar Windows 8 came to a sad end. I took the path of least resistance, and re-installed Win-10, which, in gratitude for my noble efforts, promptly fucked up the dual-boot I had with Linux Mint. So for my next act, I have to re-install that, to get it once again into the boot sector from which it can be started. It's all still there, but I can't access it because Windows grabs the boot sector management for itself, thinking, erroneously, that it's the only thing in the known universe that matters. I have news, Schnookie....
This is the program I'm dual-booting with Win-10 on here, and this one really makes Windows seem like a "work in progress". This is the poor man's OS-X, and as they say, "It just works!" Once you get familiar with it, you appreciate just how well it does work.
TOMMY DOES THINK YOU'RE NUTS!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd reading all your stuff is tending to drive me nuts as well. I had decided that NO Windoz 10 for me, based on your experiences and my knowledge of it myself. So this past week, I read that Microsoft is ending it's free upgrades (in July if I remember right). So I sat on it for a few days going back and forth on it. I have a (I don't even know what to call it, it's a Dell XPS-12 laptop, tablet thingie) computer with Windoz Pro 8.1 on it and thought about upgrading that. I almost hit the enter button a few times, but didn't. My inner voice kept saying 'remember Ray, remember Ray', so I didn't.
NOW you go and install it. What are we to do with you Ray?? :-)