WinXX---->Win10 Today is D-Day for Free, One Way to Fully Update Later

Drastic · July 28, 2016, 02:08:10 PM

Finally bit the bullet on my win8.1 workstation last week and I like it much better. I'm going to do so on my main win7 today, reluctantly, with the option to roll-back.

http://www.howtogeek.com/253901/get-windows-10-for-free-after-july-29th-with-a-little-prep-now/

ergophobe · July 28, 2016, 03:06:07 PM

So no issues with Win8.1 upgrade and you're happy with the move?

I am deathly afraid of OS updates on existing machines and usually avoid it unless absolutely required... but my wife's upgrade went well and yours did...

Drastic · July 28, 2016, 04:57:39 PM

Yep, no issues at all. I was worried too, usually clean install is best. Machine is faster and seems more memory efficient, and the UI is much better than 8/8.1.

DrCool · July 28, 2016, 05:45:57 PM

My home computer automatically updated to 10 a few months back. I don't really see much functional difference for what I do on it. Haven't noticed any slowdown or anything like that but I don't really do anything to push the limits. Mostly just internet stuff and blog posts.

Drastic · July 29, 2016, 01:12:00 AM

Well my win7 upgrade totally borked. Such a waste of time, had to roll back.

May troubleshoot and try again tomorrow.

bill · July 29, 2016, 02:56:05 AM

I killed a lot of time today adding Win10 VMs to various machines. I have held off on updating the OS on my primary machines. I'll leave them on 8.1. It's just not worth my time to update properly. Except for my workstation in the office I doubt I'll be using Windows as my primary OS on new machines going forward. I may run it in a VM where it's sandboxed away, but no more primary Win OS for me if I can help it.

ergophobe · July 29, 2016, 03:52:40 AM

What's your primary OS Bill?

bill · July 29, 2016, 04:10:04 AM

Right now Qubes OS

Drastic · August 01, 2016, 02:04:57 PM

I finally got it running on my Win7 Pro machine after 3 tries. I remembered having some graphics driver conflicts with my add-in card and onboard chip, so I pulled the card and then it upgraded fine.

Now I'm just trying to get the cards/drivers to play nice with each other again.

Assuming I'm successful, this will be the first time all of my Win devices will be running the same OS, so I've got that going for me.

JasonD · August 01, 2016, 06:09:16 PM

>Qubes

That looks mighty impressive

bill · August 04, 2016, 11:50:40 AM

Quote from: JasonD on August 01, 2016, 06:09:16 PM
>Qubes

That looks mighty impressive

Probably good for another thread, but yeah, impressive. I spend all my free time tweaking and playing with it. I have Win10 running in it along with Win7, Fedora, Debian, Arch, Whonix, Tails and Subgraph. It took me a bit to wrap my head around.