Is there a "Fuck, Windows 10 is overhyped horseshit" thread?
The move-it-or-lose-it deadline's almost here though, so I guess it's time to get onboard.
- Installing on my tablet: 0-30% in about 20 minutes. 4 hours to get to 99%. 3 hours later, still at 99%. 6 hours later, still at 99%. It finally finished sometime during the workday.
- The option for the full onscreen keyboard on tablets is greyed out by default. You need to dig through a few options to enable it.
- It's still not the full keyboard: No home/end/pgup/pgdn. That keyboard is only accessible through the Ease of Access center. It's even resizable! At least that can be pinned to the Taskbar.
- If predictive text is enabled, trying to move the keyboard around the screen instead only moves the predicted text, not the keyboard itself.
- The onscreen keyboard can't be resized anymore. It auto-scales to the screen, so instead of a smallish keyboard, my widescreen tablet now has an 11"-long keyboard taking up a lot of space, which still lacks very useful keys like Home and End.
- The icon for the on-screen keyboard was conveniently located near the center of the screen for easy access. Now it's in the far corner and can't be moved.
- Back/forward flicks/gestures don't work anymore by touch. If I go to the "Practice flicks" section to test, it now says "you cannot use a mouse or your finger to perform a flick." Apparently this was removed in Windows 8, and the only workaround is third-party applications. This is a very bafflingly odd decision for something so useful on a tablet, especially for an OS that's supposedly more tablet-friendly.
*The third-party app I found only seems to work with mouse input or laptop touchpads, but not touchscreens.
- The Action Center keeps popping out from the right side when I'm scrolling and I can't find how to disable it.
- Dark grey taskbar items with black text. This is evidently a very common problem. It happened on my tablet, my PC, and my work PC.
- Calculator no longer shows handy lines of history right above the entered number. It's now a separate button to press, which then hides the regular calculator buttons.
- Minor calculator annoyance: Clicking "Settings" doesn't give any access to settings, it just shows the About information.
- Pressing the Calculator button on my keyboard starts Calculator, but it usually starts behind the current window, requiring either a mouse click to bring it up or Alt+Tab.
- Some program settings got reset back to defaults.
- Some file associations changed (images, PDFs, videos) despite disabling what I thought were those options during setup, but it's at least constantly pestering me for every damn new file I try to open, rather than just defaulting to what it thinks it should use.
- Mapped network drives at work disappeared.
- Start --> Run --> cmd no longer results in an admin-level command prompt like I'd set it to before the change.
- Active windows are now very difficult to see. The title bars for active and inactive windows look nearly identical, save for a slight graying of the text.
- Pinned Start Menu programs aren't there anymore.
- Overwrote the setting to disable auto-rotate.
- Windows wants to share anything and everything it knows about me.
- Spent too much time typing up this list. ...worth it.
- OMG Animated button things on the Start Menu! A Twitter feed with Donald Trump news! Apps in the Microsoft store! <claps hands> ...(Even though I thought that changing the settings to "off" for those things would disable them.)
Thank god they were working on important things while they were busy eviscerating functionality.
I suppose I should send $50 to the makers of Classic Shell for finding a way around some of these godawful changes.
I also know what I'll be doing for the next few days: Pissing away a few hours to get back some functionality, and finding out how to get on that delayed-updates thing so I'm not part of the front lines for their real-world beta testing.
+ But hey, at least copy/paste in Explorer finally has pause functionality.
+ And there's a handy brightness-adjust button in the power settings window.
+ While it overwrote my setting to disable auto-rotate, it looks like that functionality isn't sluggish and screwy like it was in Windows 7.
+ Task Manager's network stats show usable stats in Kbps.
+ It pains me to say it, but the ribbon-style interface thing in Explorer is actually decent, after I did Ctrl+F1 to keep all the really useful buttons from auto-hiding. They also didn't screw over people who use the keyboard as their primary means of quick navigation.
Edit: Started the upgrade on my mom's PC via Teamviewer. Upgrade finished. Internet connectivity is gone now.
To add insult to injury, I literally got the notice that it had arrived right at the time I would have been getting home from work.
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