Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on more PCs

Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by mhw on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:56PM (#11826425)

At one point my ThinkPad wouldn't reconnect to wifi after suspend/resume when running Windows 10. That seems to have fixed itself, but I've no idea which update might have solved the problem or even if it was an update.

Now Windows 10 is refusing to recognise the Logitech wireless mouse USB receiver that works fine under Linux and also worked fine under Windows until a few weeks ago.

Honestly, I think Windows now has worse support for legacy hardware than Linux.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by zxcvcxz on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:07PM (#11826494)

>Honestly, I think Windows now has worse support for legacy hardware than Linux.

I don't know where people got the idea that Windows ever had good hardware support. I switched to Linux right after win7 came out because it ran like shit on my laptop. It said my graphics drivers didn't support aero transparency but my laptop graphics supported transparency on Linux and a whole bunch of other cool shit with compiz and Linux ran flawlessly.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by cm2187 on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:19PM (#11826986)

I hear that linux run flawlessly now, and got massively downvoted when I claimed that this wasn't my experience a couple of months ago. I since decided to try it again. I purchased a lenovo T460p, and I picked that model specifically because it was on ubuntu's list of certified devices.

When the laptop switches on, it makes a horrible sound which reminds me of my 8bit audio days. And impossible to connect an external monitor, while the same laptop on windows could drive a 4K monitor. And couldn't find any useful fix on google.

I am sorry but linux desktop is far far from being ready for primetime.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by zxcvcxz on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:37PM (#11827918)

>lenovo T460p

That model comes with Ubuntu pre-installed and it does run flawlessly. I've seen people run ubuntu on it my self. So perhaps there was some other problems.

I can't find a single bad review except yours.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by cm2187 on Friday June 03, 2016 @02:24AM (#11828685)

On lenovo's website I could only find a windows version (on the US or UK websites). And the support page has no drivers for linux. All I can do it to install the default Ubuntu OS image. And the graphic card isn't like an exotic custom graphic card, it's Intel Integrated Graphics...

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