User blog comment:Specterbird/windows 10 sucks/@comment-2012328-20150808151543

I shall be giving my 23 cents about this, won't I? Well, upgrade wasn't as hectic as was ZX's, but all it took from me was a clean install to at least give the sense of "cleaning up after myself".

Where should I start? Windows 10 is much like 7... but a little blander even more so than Win8 (no colored windows = less focus). I settled for as much vanilla experience was possible (no Classic Shell or things like that as of yet, but some registry changes like keeping OneDrive out of my sight was a little overdramatic for this review so yea). Haven't given much of a chance to use Edge, but I assume it will have necessary addons to draw myself in.

Getting the drivers done was fast and to the point... mostly. The mouse's (a gaming mouse, btw) driver worked for a little while but no settings would've been saved and "an heroed" into a deadlock - a little extra PC account magic and changed successfully. All apps that I have used in Win7 can also be used in Win10... also mostly. Notepad++ having a particular issue with the spellchecker that it used to have would've caused that "an hero" deadlock which I then reinstalled it (minor issue glamour hooray).

Since Win8, I wasn't much of an advocate for the Microsoft account sync thing, but created one nonetheless before then when I "tried" Win8 but maybe it'll come to use to me when I will have an extra device or require an account for some of the apps that MS crammed into.

Of course it may seem complete, bugs like what I typed here as well as some Start menu tiles not operating like it should - like an off-centered tile - But after a restart and a "minor" crash, it works just fine. Start menu "All Apps" seems to be fine for what I need (except for those marked 'New' - including the uninstallers; that is a mess. Speaking of Start, I feel the search function (disregarding Cortana) has essentially degraded - Using filenames and not their normal names (including settings which require me to see the "Something went wrong" error to enter that.) Web search would be better with a custom search engine option other than Bing I believe. At least pathfinding appears indexed.

Quick Access is somewhat of a hit and miss for me: It includes the pinned stuff but not the recent ones like those shown from the taskbar. The task view doesn't seem to be a seller to me because I have a dual monitor setup. Perhaps it might come to use when I create things for the wiki, or maybe even some programming scenarios... or both.

TL;DR aside, MS seemed to have fixed their mistakes... but then made some minor ones in the process. At times, I myself am not such a power user to notice all that new stuff, but I approach that area and feel that the pros and cons fluctuate until I've officially settled in. I've yet to continue with my AHK project to see if my hopes won't just fly away....

If a rating is needed, then I'd say 7/10 (not because of Win7 I swear to Chaos).