Captain Ned wrote:whm1974 wrote:Why couldn't they just kept the old Windows 7 UI with maybe a few improvements instead?
Some of us wish Windows UI development had stopped with Win2K. Might explain why I gravitate toward KDE or Xfce.
Agreed, for me the most usable and best looking version of Windows
ever was Windows 2000. I loved it. I guess that could be why I use KDE (though 5 looks less like Win2k than 4 did).
I have Windows 10 installed on a couple of places (Laptop came with it, plus a VM). My Wife also has it (though it installed its self on her main PC without her consent) and so far it doesn't give us any major issues, outside of programs breaking and needing re-installing after the big updates, though said software has now been upgraded to newer versions.
Hi DPI scaling is horrible though so I didn't use it on my laptop as much as I do now. I used to dual boot Fedora and Windows 10 on the laptop, but for some reason occasionally booting Windows 10 would suddenly corrupt grub, and I got fed up of keep having to fix grub so I moved Fedora to a VM (running LXQt).
I have been experimenting with the Windows subsystem for Linux, and I am NOT impressed so far. The IO performance is horrible, also compiling GCC can be hit and miss, I've had the compile job literally jam up, needing a Ctrl+C. So what was a disappointment (using Ubuntu as Fedora isn't available yet). I may go back to Cygwin, especially as that should also be able to build GUI applications which "Bash for Linux" for want of a better name doesn't seem to be able to do that without a lot of work.
Other than that, the UI works, but I'm not enthusiastic about it, I still prefer the old Control Panel to the new Settings application (I refused to use the term "app").
Intel Core i7 4790K, Z97, 16GB RAM, 128GB m4 SSD, 480GB M500 SSD, 500GB WD Vel, Intel HD4600, Corsair HX650, Fedora x64.
Thinkpad T460p, Intel Core i5 6440HQ, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Intel HD 530 IGP, Fedora x64, Win 10 x64.