I met here another list of “10 reasons that prompted me to switch from Windows 10 to Linux” and decided to make my own list of what I don’t like about Windows 10, the OS that I use today. I'm not going to switch to Linux in the foreseeable future, but that doesn't mean I'm happy. allthat changes in the operating system.
I’ll immediately answer the question “why not continue using Windows 7 if you don’t like something in 10?”
My work is related to technical support, including dozens of computers. Therefore, it is more profitable to live on the current version of the OS, and not to excuse yourself from tasks under the sauce “I don’t use this ten of yours.” I lived on the seven, I remember it, I know, nothing has changed there since then. But the top ten is constantly changing, a little delay with updates - and some settings will crawl to another place, the logic of behavior will change, etc. Therefore, in order to keep up with life, in everyday use I have Windows 10.
Now let me tell you what I don't like about her. Since I am not only a user, but also an admin, there will be dislike from two points of view. Whoever does not use it himself, but only an admin, will not meet half of the things, and a simple user will not meet the second.
Updates
Updates that are installed without asking, when turned off, when turned on, during operation, when the computer is idle - this is evil. Users of home versions of Windows have no official control over updates at all. Users of corporate versions have some visibility of control - "working hours", "postpone for a month", "install updates only for business" - but sooner or later updates overtake them. And if you put it off for a long time, then at the most inopportune moment.
There are a lot of stories about how “I came to the presentation, turned on the laptop - and it installed updates for an hour” or “left the calculations for the night, and the computer installed the update and rebooted.” From recent personal experience - last Friday, our employee turned off the computer (from 10 Home), he wrote "I'm installing updates, do not turn it off." Okay, I didn't turn it off, I left. Computer finished, turned off. On Monday morning, the employee came, turned it on - and the installation of updates continued. There is an old Atom, so the installation lasted exactly two hours, maybe longer. And if the installation is interrupted, then Windows will roll back updates, as it were, no longer than it sets. Therefore, I never advise you to interrupt the installation, except that it has already shown 30% for an hour and is not moving anywhere. So slow updates are not installed even on Atom.
The ideal option was the previous version of Windows Update, where I saw what was being installed, it was possible to completely disable updates, disable unnecessary ones, configure only manual installation, etc.
Of course, there are still ways to disable updates today. The simplest is to block access to update servers on the router. But this will be a guillotine treatment for a headache and may sooner or later backfire when there is no critical update.
Disable safe mode by pressing F8 at boot
Who did it bother? Now, in order to get into safe mode, you need to boot into the OS, from there press a special button and after rebooting you will get where you need to.
And if the system does not boot, then you have to wait until Windows itself realizes that it cannot boot - and only then will it offer a choice of safe mode. Only now she understands this far from always.
Magic command returning F8: bcdedit / set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy
Enter in cmd, run as administrator.
Unfortunately, you can only do this in advance on your own computers, but if you brought someone else's, which does not boot, then you have to get into safe mode somehow differently.
Telemetry
Collection of system information and sending to Microsoft. In general, I am not a particularly big supporter of privacy and I live, basically, according to the Elusive Joe principle - and who needs me? Although, of course, this does not mean that I post a scan of my passport on the Internet.
Telemetry in MS is impersonal (allegedly) and the very presence of it does not bother me too much. But the resources that it consumes can be very noticeable. I recently moved from an i5-7500 (4 cores, 3,4GHz) to an AMD A6-9500E (2 cores, 3GHz, but the old slow architecture) - and this has had a very noticeable effect on performance. Not only do background processes take up about 30% of the processor time (on the i5 they were invisible, they hung somewhere on the far core and did not interfere), but the process of assembling and sending data by telemetry began to take up 100% of the processor.
Interface changes
When the interface changes from version to version, that's fine. But when, within one version of the OS, buttons and settings migrate from section to section, and there are several places where the settings are made, and even weakly intersecting, this upsets. Especially when the new "Settings" are completely different from the old "Control Panel".
Start Menu
By and large, I very rarely used it as a menu. In XP I didn’t use it at all, I made alternative menus on the taskbar and win + r to quickly launch programs. With the release of whist, you can simply press Win and get into the search bar. The only problem is that this search is inconsistent - it is never clear where it will look now. Sometimes looking everywhere. Sometimes it searches only in files, but does not guess among installed programs. Sometimes it's the other way around. With the search for files, he generally sucks.
And in the top ten, such a “good” thing as “offers” appeared - it slips you various programs from the application store into the menu. Let's say you often run office and graphic applications. Windows will observe for a while, analyze your habits - and offer you Candy Crush Saga or Disney Magic Kingdoms.
Yes, it is disabled - Settings-Personalization-Start:
But I don't like the fact that Microsoft is changing something in my offline menu. Even if I rarely use it.
Notifications
Again, does anyone use them? A number in the corner, when clicked, some useless information comes out. Occasionally, some messages pop up in the corner for a couple of seconds, when clicked, an action is performed, and no additional information is displayed. For example, a message stating that the firewall is disabled when you click on the message itself will turn it back on. Yes, it is written about it there - but the message hangs on the screen for a short time, you may not have time to read the last sentence.
But the real mockery is the message that you are in full screen mode and Windows will not bother you. Only in full screen mode, these messages are transparent, but still hang in the corner. And when you click in this corner - let's say you are playing and in the game you have some buttons there - you are thrown to the desktop. Where the message is no longer displayed - you are on the desktop. And when you return to the game, you again have a transparent message in the corner on top of the buttons.
The idea is initially not bad - to collect notifications from all programs in one place, but the implementation is very lame. Plus, "all programs" are not eager to add their notifications there, but show them the old fashioned way.
Microsoft Store
Who needs it anyway? From there, only sapper, solitaire games and add-ons for Edge are installed, which will soon become chrome and add-ons for it will be installed from the appropriate place. And decent solitaire games are also quite enough in other places, given that most of these casual games have moved to social networks (and monetized).
I'm not opposed to having an app store as such, in general, judging by mobile phones, the thing is right. But it has to be comfortable. No matter how they scolded the apple and Google stores for the crooked search, etc., Microsoft is much worse. In Google and Apple, in addition to garbage, the necessary programs appear in the search results, while MS has only garbage in the store.
Although, of course, this point is subjective. I removed the shortcut, do not install programs from there - and you can forget about the presence of the Store.
Finale
Well, probably everything. You can, of course, write down viruses, antiviruses, internet Explorer, swelling of the distribution kit and the installed system in the claim ... But this has always been the case, a dozen did not bring anything new here. Swelling has become faster, perhaps. But this is noticeable only on budget devices with a very limited disk space.
Otherwise, Windows still has no competitors, they shot themselves in the leg with a dozen well, but they bandaged it and continue to limp forward perky.
Source: habr.com