Windows 10

Infidel

With regards to Windows spying on us. I've just put a folded piece of paper over the built in webcam on this laptop as I don't want them to see me too.

RumRat

Papers no good.......Can you find a good lead casing?

Infidel

If it was my laptop i think I would super glue a bit of lead casing over it.

prowla

esuhl wrote: »

To get the Start menu back...?

But Windows 10 has one.

Infidel

prowla wrote: »

But Windows 10 has one.

I would probably get used to it after a while but my first impressions are that it's not very good/user friendly.

esuhl

RumRat wrote: »

It already has one....Come to the dark side Luke....;)

Come on! That's not a proper Start menu. It makes finding applications unnecessarily tedious.

RumRat

esuhl wrote: »

Come on! That's not a proper Start menu. It makes finding applications unnecessarily tedious.

Pin to start, pin to taskbar, ask Cortana, start typing, alphabetically, pin to quick access. So many choices young Luke.....The Dark Side awaits......

Infidel

RumRat wrote: »

ask Cortana,

Hell that's enough to give you Nightmares of the Nineties alone.

esuhl

RumRat wrote: »

Pin to start, pin to taskbar, ask Cortana, start typing, alphabetically, pin to quick access. So many choices young Luke.....The Dark Side awaits......

So many choices... all badly thought out, impairing the usability of the OS. This is basic stuff. God knows what Microsoft are playing at.

prowla

Infidel wrote: »

I would probably get used to it after a while but my first impressions are that it's not very good/user friendly.

I think it's OK, especially with the transparency; way better than the screen flipping nonsense of Windows 8. (It is a bit annoying that "improvement" means more sequences of actions to achieve things though.)

Heck, if they get transparency working on a general basis (rather than the tacky flat single colour window borders (and content, like Linux), it might be worth taking another look at Windows 10.