Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri...
by makecheck on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:51PM
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At least, as of a few years ago, Apple figured out that incremental updates are not such a bad thing. There is only so much “damage” they can do with an update; and although they do screw up stuff, you can at least figure out what happened.
Where do you start though when W10 changes the entire damned UI, replaces a bunch of apps, moves stuff around, creates two versions of some control panels, etc.? That is just a special level of “don’t give a crap” that is embarrassing for any company making billions of dollars.
USB used to just work. Now it stops working after you connect ten or so devices - which is not a common thing, but not unusual in music studios. And external USB hubs only work if they have a specific generic name in the firmware ID.
Apparently if you hack your own kexts you can get it working again, kind of.
>At this point I'm disappointed by every system I use.
This. The Win 10 situation is beyond horrific. I would never have imagined that MS would set itself up for a class action suit like this. I know people who have had their PCs trashed by this forced upgrade, and they're really not happy about it.
But the alternatives are not great. Linux and OS X are both in similar "kind of works, mostly, except when not" states.
Consumer OS reliability and design has become an embarrassment for the entire industry.