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Fatwah on Western Digital
I've been running Windows 10 at home on my TV PC, an Intel NUC with a wired connection and no particularly strong demands placed on it, but on Day 2 of having Windows 10 on my Thinkpad and here are my thoughts now that I've completely set up my environment:
1. This shit is SLOW. I'm on an i7 with 16GB RAM. All the storage is solid state. Why can't my PC keep up with keystrokes? The beta of Windows 8 wasn't like this. I thought maybe the machine was just busy indexing or something. Nope. There's only 250,000 files on the whole system and I left it running over night. It's just slow.
2. Audio is approximately AM Radio Potato quality. All static, all the time. I switched from the usual Realtek output to a pair of USB speakers. Since that didn't help, I suspect there's something more than just a driver issue at play. My NUC does not seem to have audio issues, but it outputs throught HDMI.
3. Cortana is even more retarded than I thought. Its default behavior is to search personal files FIRST, then the Internet and THEN local programs and settings. It also seems to drop my first two or three keystrokes about 80% of the time, so a search for "winword" becomes a search for "nword." The pre-Cortana search actually worked better and for my purposes I'm almost always better off with Win-R instead.
4. Windows 10 can't find an IP printer to save its life. There's eight on my LAN. I know their IPs. If I bring a Win 8 machine in the building, they'll all be installed in 20 minutes without any user interaction at all. 10 finds ONE printer if I go tell it to search the LAN and doesn't automatically install any of them. On the other hand, it picked up about two dozen Windows shared printers from over VPN connections. I'm back to manually adding IP printers like I'm some kind of Vista-using peasant.
5. Modern-style Apps are extra-slow. Again, using an i7. Why does it take five seconds for the Weather or News App to show me the same crap that's already in the live tile? I believe this includes the whole Start Menu. There's just always a pause. Even installing them takes a lot longer than it did on 8.
6. File Explorer is not slow. It's zippy, just like it was in 8.x. The Folders List that's part of the default view drives me nuts, as does the continued discontinuity in not being able to use Libraries in the same fashion as folders when it might make sense to do so.
7. Wireless passwords are part of my Microsoft Account. On Windows 8, once I sign in, I don't have to type them, just click and connect. They don't seem to be stored or available to Windows 10. I keep having to type them in.
8. Neither the Settings Menu nor Control Panel is necessarily visible on the default Start Menu. Thinking of how many times I've wanted to visit them as I've been using this PC today makes me think that is a huge problem. The Start menu has changed a couple times already, so at least I have hopes that this will be fixed.
1. This shit is SLOW. I'm on an i7 with 16GB RAM. All the storage is solid state. Why can't my PC keep up with keystrokes? The beta of Windows 8 wasn't like this. I thought maybe the machine was just busy indexing or something. Nope. There's only 250,000 files on the whole system and I left it running over night. It's just slow.
2. Audio is approximately AM Radio Potato quality. All static, all the time. I switched from the usual Realtek output to a pair of USB speakers. Since that didn't help, I suspect there's something more than just a driver issue at play. My NUC does not seem to have audio issues, but it outputs throught HDMI.
3. Cortana is even more retarded than I thought. Its default behavior is to search personal files FIRST, then the Internet and THEN local programs and settings. It also seems to drop my first two or three keystrokes about 80% of the time, so a search for "winword" becomes a search for "nword." The pre-Cortana search actually worked better and for my purposes I'm almost always better off with Win-R instead.
4. Windows 10 can't find an IP printer to save its life. There's eight on my LAN. I know their IPs. If I bring a Win 8 machine in the building, they'll all be installed in 20 minutes without any user interaction at all. 10 finds ONE printer if I go tell it to search the LAN and doesn't automatically install any of them. On the other hand, it picked up about two dozen Windows shared printers from over VPN connections. I'm back to manually adding IP printers like I'm some kind of Vista-using peasant.
5. Modern-style Apps are extra-slow. Again, using an i7. Why does it take five seconds for the Weather or News App to show me the same crap that's already in the live tile? I believe this includes the whole Start Menu. There's just always a pause. Even installing them takes a lot longer than it did on 8.
6. File Explorer is not slow. It's zippy, just like it was in 8.x. The Folders List that's part of the default view drives me nuts, as does the continued discontinuity in not being able to use Libraries in the same fashion as folders when it might make sense to do so.
7. Wireless passwords are part of my Microsoft Account. On Windows 8, once I sign in, I don't have to type them, just click and connect. They don't seem to be stored or available to Windows 10. I keep having to type them in.
8. Neither the Settings Menu nor Control Panel is necessarily visible on the default Start Menu. Thinking of how many times I've wanted to visit them as I've been using this PC today makes me think that is a huge problem. The Start menu has changed a couple times already, so at least I have hopes that this will be fixed.
