Windows 7 users are taking their time upgrading to Windows 10

[rambo919]

yes but the problem starts when you do an update on a machine where everything was happy and talking properly to each other with no issues. Then suddenly this one doesn't know that one any more, and windows is flashing warning messages at you, and explorer gets a pain in its bum and shuts down and, and, and ... so I blame windows as being instigating factor that sets off this chain reaction of calamities.

Half of that is some updates randomly setting all settings back to defaults..... as if it's always a good idea.

 

[shinji]

Running Win10 since they offered win7 users the upgrade as an update.

Anyway, running on a Quadcore AMD system with 4Gb RAM (yes people, 4) installed on a 80GB HDD (yep) - use PC mostly for watching YouTube, pr0n, series and the occasional early 2000 game or two.
Apart from the big updates now and then, win10 have served me well. The old hardware is starting to show it's age, but overall I haven't had any major issues at all.

Still love 7 though - thus the reason I have Start Menu Shell installed to give 10 the 7 style Start Menu.

 

[jax_maxit]

I'm an Ubuntu user and the majority of my personal and work related tasks are done there.
I have Win 7 on a dual boot because it came preinstalled on my laptop and desktop. Also my collection of Origin games (on the desktop) and Visual Studio means I can't go completely Linux. I have no intention of upgrading to 10. I will simply leave my risky online behaviour to the VM or Ubuntu partition.

 

[Zoomzoom]

risky online behaviour

Don't forget to use a condom!

 

[rambo919]

I'm an Ubuntu user and the majority of my personal and work related tasks are done there.
I have Win 7 on a dual boot because it came preinstalled on my laptop and desktop. Also my collection of Origin games (on the desktop) and Visual Studio means I can't go completely Linux. I have no intention of upgrading to 10. I will simply leave my risky online behaviour to the VM or Ubuntu partition.

Problem is sometimes simply being connected is already the risk. I remember a few studies where people connected test machines to a local network without any protection and only starting it ending up with lots of infections.

 

[Swa]

Problem is sometimes simply being connected is already the risk. I remember a few studies where people connected test machines to a local network without any protection and only starting it ending up with lots of infections.

See it's the without any protection part that's the problem. Just don't allow incoming connections and you're mostly safe. Mobile connection already takes care of that.

 

[rambo919]

See it's the without any protection part that's the problem. Just don't allow incoming connections and you're mostly safe. Mobile connection already takes care of that.

Point is there is always the possibility that a vulnerability can be taken advantage of whether a browser is used or not.

 

[Swa]

Point is there is always the possibility that a vulnerability can be taken advantage of whether a browser is used or not.

Thing is ports are blocked. So whether you use a browser or not traffic will never reach your pc and only your initiated connections can send or receive data. You'll have to visit a site with dodgy code or install some scamware. No OS update will save you there and you're just as safe on win3.1 as on win10.

 

[Sl8er]

I'm an Ubuntu user and the majority of my personal and work related tasks are done there.
I have Win 7 on a dual boot because it came preinstalled on my laptop and desktop. Also my collection of Origin games (on the desktop) and Visual Studio means I can't go completely Linux. I have no intention of upgrading to 10. I will simply leave my risky online behaviour to the VM or Ubuntu partition.

You should check out Lutris.
As legend goes, you can play many of your games from steam, origin, blizzard and gog (I want to also say epic, but I can't because I'm not sure), all in one place.
Gaming is increasingly becoming a non-issue on Linux these days. Some games run even better in Lutris (wine) than it does natively in windows, apparently.
(I'll be looking into that soon, which is why I installed PopOS.)

Not everything works yet though, but you can easily check out whether the games you play do.
It's getting there, it's getting there...

 

[grok]

Switch to the beta version of Edge, which is based on Chromium and is far better. You can change which desktop Edge browser you sync bookmarks with in the mobile Edge app settings.

I'm not aware of issues with FLAC or other lossless formats in Windows 10. Sounds like an issue with the software you're using.

Don't you just hate it when people think you're either a noobtard or just as ignorant as they are?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=win+10+cutting+off+flac+mp3+tags

The fact that I've ripped to FLAC should've told you I'm a bit more into the quality of my e-music than he rest, and thus probably relatively anal about my tags too.
Worse is the feeling I get that people like you think I cannot google myself out of a windows issue, do you honestly think I didn't investigate before going nah it broken?
Ah well, probably my own fault for deciding to give Microsoft yet another chance by trying to use their bundled apps instead of knowing better and straight-off installing my own.
I really wanted to like Win 10, Edge and all that crap, but you have to remember Windows is made by the same peeps that gave us IE.

 

[Bryn]

Don't you just hate it when people think you're either a noobtard or just as ignorant as they are?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=win+10+cutting+off+flac+mp3+tags

The fact that I've ripped to FLAC should've told you I'm a bit more into the quality of my e-music than he rest, and thus probably relatively anal about my tags too.
Worse is the feeling I get that people like you think I cannot google myself out of a windows issue, do you honestly think I didn't investigate before going nah it broken?
Ah well, probably my own fault for deciding to give Microsoft yet another chance by trying to use their bundled apps instead of knowing better and straight-off installing my own.
I really wanted to like Win 10, Edge and all that crap, but you have to remember Windows is made by the same peeps that gave us IE.

As I suspected, it's just the software you're using. Windows 10 is not changing the files, so competent playback software won't care in the slightest that Windows is having issues with FLAC.

What sort of hardcore audiophile hardware are you running where the source quality would otherwise be a bottleneck?