So I'm a noob when it comes to this tech stuff but I was wondering whether I should upgrade to Windows 10? I know you guys have all this botnet culture/meme but I don't really care about that. I just want to know if it's worth it to upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
>>54439881
User experience
10 > 7 > any form of 8, 8 was fucking garbage, including 8.1 which was a shitty update to cover up their asses since MS saw that people were switching to Macs instead, thats why you have all these stabs at Macs from them these days.
Privacy
7 > 8 > 10
Just be sure to not update past May updates of 2015 ir you'll get telemetry and getwinx.exe which is basically adware.
>>54439881
B O T N E T - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >
O Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
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E Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
T https://archive.is/OBGB1
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| Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
| https://archive.is/tW6fu
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| Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
| https://archive.is/2XIvX · https://archive.is/qLRZx
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| Windows snoops on the users' files, text input, voice input,
| location, contacts, calendar records and web browsing history,
| even after related settings are turned off:
| https://archive.is/Zny36 · https://archive.is/sz1nt
| https://archive.is/g3QdQ · https://archive.is/ko469
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| A Traffic Analysis of Windows 10:
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| Keypoints: Windows 10 has a keylogger and uploads all your
| keystrokes every 5 minutes. Everything you type in Edge or
| Cortana is sent to Microsoft, along with any media files it
| finds. When webcam is enabled, 35MB of data goes to Microsoft.
| Even with Cortana disabled/uninstalled, Windows 10 sends all
| microphone audio to Microsoft, when the computer is idle.
| https://archive.is/QnTTA
| https://archive.is/eZKc9
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| Windows 10 sends desktop screenshots straight to Microsoft:
| https://d2.maxfile.ro/rwspylwbwo.webm
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDeHqiydk4A
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| Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
| https://archive.is/vhjwm
| https://archive.is/2jehd
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| Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
| https://archive.is/MB0Yy
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| > Over 82 billion photos viewed.
| > Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games.
| > 44.5 billion minutes/month spent in Microsoft Edge.
| > Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
| > Windows 10 now active on over 200 million devices.
|
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>>54439929
What about for games and software? Is Windows 10 supported atm?
>>54439881
Hey OP imma let you finish but I just wanted to say Windows 95 was one of Microsofts best operating systems of all time, of all time.
I have a question about W10, so my friend has a metered connection with a 5GB cap. How can that be managed with W10?
>>54439957
There's literally no games (in exception of xbox ports like gears and quantum break, which both run horrible thanks to the retarded way UWP works) that are Windows 10 exclusive. There's also no games released yet that take advantage of DX12.
>>54439881
Vanilla windows is a full blown spyware. Hardening privacy reduces spying but cannot disable it completely.
I guess if you are tech illiterate you should stick to windows 8.1 or switch to OSX
>>54439881
>I just want to know if it's worth it to upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
Yes, ABSOLUTELY!
>>54439881
are you miranda vance? will you be my girlfriend?
>>54439881
yes you should
>>54439881
Benefits outweight the meme and since it's free..
>>54440465
>Benefits
name one
I'm avoiding 10 because it tries to install drivers without permission. I have a laptop I upgraded on to see what it was all about. It entered an infinite loop of installing an incompatible driver, crashing to restart, failing to load, loading the last restore point, and trying to install the driver again. No way to stop it on the home version. Jumped it back to 8.1 (original os)
>>54439960
is no one going to answer this??
>>54440538
protip it can't, just don't download or watch videos and stick to reddit where you belong
>>>/out/
>>54440703
ima rollin wid dis champ.
so is win 10 an attempt to piss off the former versions and stick with a constant rolling release model?
if so, its poorly implemented
>>54439936
Thanks man
>>54440842
Windows 10 is the future.
This is just where things are heading. You want something, you gotta give something in return. Every sci-fi that had teleporters, holograms and all that shit never presented the more realistic part of all these inventions, which is that ever-present obscure price you have to pay for these creations. After all, a costumer buying a product from a company is not a situation in which both parties are on equal ground - most of the time, at least - since the costumer will almost always get ripped off by the latter.
This is no critique, it's just the way things are. The sensible solution here for those opposed to this way in which the world is turning is, at least how I see it, to contribute as much as possible to open-source and free software projects and foundations and so on, to spread the word, to help newbies and to develop fixes. The more the community grows, the better chances of seeing more of it in the future or of seeing it at all.
Just my 2 cents.
>>54441179
Nah i will continue to use what i use and not be bothered by that farce of a company.
from my use of it, its better than windows 8.1, so if you really dont care about the botnet go for it
>>54441213
cant the hosts file just turn that off
>>54441234
set up a packet sniffer and tell us
>>54439929
>>54439936
>>54440046
what about windows 10 enterprise?
thinking of buying a new PC, i'm leaning towards a 5820k/win7 build atm, because skylake is shitty with windows 7 and in NZ getting a 4790k would be a huge pain (plus the mobos are all gone)
I'm waiting for a few games to come out that'll likely use DX12 and enterprise seems to fix most of the things wrong with windows 10, thoughts?
>>54441285
>Wireshark the botnet bugs.
Hey if microsoft wants to know about my porn habits. they can go right ahead.
Im just wondering if it can be turned off and why are'nt people using it.
>>54441338
people here say telemetry cannot be completely switched off hence the packet sniffer idea.
i heard of a programme called anti beacon that could help. i dont use it because i simply hate closed source and,... well,... microsoft in general. look, windows is good... (it fucking should be with the pricetag), but its simply not worth the money for me considering what i actually use my computer for.
>>54439929
> User experience
> 10 > 7
lol
>>54441307
>Enterprise ltsb
Same EULA.
Still cannot disable telemetry completely
>>54442427
>i'm a grilll
fuck off tripfag
>>54443438
https://kickass.unblocked.tv/windows-7-ultimate-sp1-x64-en-us-esd-april2016-pre-activated-team-os-t12461514.html
For anyone interested, this torrent has all the crap removed, read description. I installed this on my new rig, flawless.
Why do you need some weebs approval to upgrade?
>>54443615
Hahahahahhaah lol
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1 (2nd rollout)
File name: X17-59465.iso
Size: 3.09 GB (3,320,903,680 bytes)
MD5: c9f7ecb768acb82daacf5030e14b271e
http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/58464-Windows-Loader-Download
>>54443832
dumb tripfag cancer
>>54439936
Who cares?
