Upgraded my Windows 7 comp to Windows 10 at the weekend. I tend to stick to the tried and true OS's, because there's nothing worse than having to go scrambling for updated drivers, plugin security authorizations etc. But, I'm between projects so I thought it was probably worth doing now.
My first surprise was that the free upgrade still works. I thought it was a limited time offer, and it's a year since I last saw the prompt asking me to upgrade. But if you go to the MS website and do the Windows 10 upgrade option, it works.
My second surprise was when I loaded a complex mix which was pushing the limits of what the computer could cope with, particularly with the first CPU core occasionally spiking into the red, it loaded quicker and played back with a lower CPU load - it was like the other cores were being more effectively utilised.
This pleases me.
Plus the PC starts and turns off much quicker.
Maybe my nightmares from the XP -> Vista transition days can be put to rest?
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tbh. I had no problems with Vista either, except the computer it was on had a CPU that wasn't powerful enough and the 32 bit system didn't support enough memory for some modern VSTis.
Although you can't disable update in Win 10 you can tell it your on a metered connection, then it won't download them unless you tell it to.
Other than the above it's an OK operating system. It is essentially free in as much as you can install it without activating and it will run quite happy with an activate windows message in the bottom right corner.
I have a Windows 7 machine at work that does that so it's not just a 10 thing.