To be fair, Windows 10 has some meaningful upgrades compared to 7.
- Windows 10 can handle radical new hardware (such as swapping a drive to a totally different PC) much more gracefully, where as Windows 7 could sometimes freak out and crash or not boot.
- Windows updates were ungodly slow to install on Windows 7, but were much quicker on Windows 10.
- Windows 10’s ability to automatically download drivers was very convenient, bringing it more in-line with the experience of Linux, which generally has drivers out of the box.
- Windows 10 was generally quite stable, even more stable than 7, in my experience.
But with all those advantages, came many downsides as well:
- Windows 10’s system settings interface is an absolute clusterfuck, making changing simple things like the refresh rate of a monitor difficult to change or find due to being buried behind so many sub-menus. The Windows 10 settings are usually a dumbed down version, with a small easy to miss hyperlink somewhere on the page to bring up the older Windows XP/7 era settings panel that actually adjusted the thing you needed.
- Windows 10 has a lot of annoying pop-ups for features that barely anyone uses or wants, but likely helps monetize the OS.
- Windows 10 incorporated ads into the start menu. Fucking ads!
- Windows 10 was a privacy nightmare compared to 7, and the privacy settings were in a constant state of flux after an update
- Windows 10’s automatic driver installer had a downside, in that it would automatically download an outdated version of your GPU driver automatically before you could beat it to the punch with a properly new one.
daddycool@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Windows 10 was okay when it first came out, but got worse and worse with every update.