There are people who just hate Windows and Microsoft.
True... but those aren't the ones pointing out the problems with Windows 10 in discussion areas like this. They're the ones who post pictures of penguins and say things like "just work" and what not. They're not getting specific with the complaints like the Windows users are. The people who are the most vocal about that are the long-time Windows users that expected a better product and better treatment than the crap MS has been pulling lately.
This I Hate Upgrading to Win XXX because (add nefarious statement here) is wearing thin.
Best learn to deal with it, 'cause the complaints aren't going away as long as MS continues to try to force us to use garbage.
All my PC's are Win 10 now - some I built in 2009 - all working fine.
Well bully for you. A lot of us don't want our PCs to "work fine" doing what MS wants them to do. I want my PC to "work fine" doing what I want it to do, and Windows 10 is unsuited for that purpose.
Windows haters please move on to MacOS or Linux as you've threatened for over a decade already.
Why? We have three or six years of updates coming before we have to. If we were really "Windows haters" as you so glibly assert, we wouldn't be trying so hard to remain Windows users.
It's easy to dismiss people with opposing points of view as "haters." The "haters" you are talking about are typically long-time Windows users who aren't willing to settle for garbage, and who don't want to simply move on and not look back. I'd rather use MacOS or Linux than Windows 10, but I'd rather use 7 or 8.1 than MacOS or Linux.
Microsoft seems hellbent on this *****ic path they're on, pushing a hybrid desktop/phone OS no one wants to support a phone market that doesn't and will never exist, and destroying every last bit of trust its users had in MS as they go. Maybe they're trying to kill Windows as a general-purpose OS, and this is their way of liquidating the value of their monopoly in that market before tossing it aside. It certainly doesn't look like they intend to preserve the Windows market as it has been, as even a monopolist knows that you can't abuse your customers continuously and expect them to remain customers.
One thing's certain, though: Migrating to 10 is not going to put any pressure on Microsoft to clean up their act. We know from Microsoft's increasingly aggressive behavior that they desperately want people on 10... but not so much that they'd actually consider making 10 into a decent product. No problem; we'll wait. We have time.
We won't, though, wait quietly. Microsoft absolutely is aware of what is being said about their products in the various forums and comment sections out across the web, and they obviously do care about it-- why else would they dispatch paid astroturfers, time and time again, to try to rebut the arguments against Windows 10 and make it seem like the greatest thing since sliced bread? It's not in question that they do this; they've been caught at it repeatedly.
Not only that, but maybe by putting a voice to the disgust that many others out there feel over this Windows 10 debacle, we'll be strengthening their resolve to resist 10 going forward too. Nothing else is going to turn MS back from this path they're on other than continued rejection of 10. We're at a point now when the stagnation in Windows 10 adoption is evident... Windows 7 has gained almost as much market share since the end of the Windows 10 free upgrade period as Windows 10 has, according to Netmarketshare.com, and for the first time ever, Windows 10 x64 has shown a drop in Steam's monthly hardware survey. This is not the time to give in to MS and adopt 10 and accept this abusive regime as the new normal. The rejection of Vista gave birth to the beloved 7 (what Vista should have been from the start)... unfortunately, the rejection of 8 is what gave us the much-worse 10.
No sale, Microsoft. Back to the drawing board!
Oh that's right, its easier to complain than carry on with an action.
Complaining is taking action. Not upgrading is taking action. Blocking Microsoft's attempts to force 10 on us is taking action.
The easy path is to give up, migrate to 10, and get started on acquiring your Stockholm Syndrome.
