I'm getting a new PC for work. Any thoughts on Win10 vs. Win7?

Windows 7 > Windows 10 > Crotch Rot > Windows 8

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I do not mind Windows 10, but they never improved on Windows 7. Windows 10 will also send every little thing you do to 3rd parties

I was a beta tester for Windows 10 since last November and my wife and I have been using the public release since late July. It boots a lot faster than Windows 7. I've had no crashes with the public release. I'd suggest Windows 10.

Having used both extensively, definitely go with 7.

Agreed with the above poster that 8 is the WOAT. 10 has some features from 8, so I like 7 better.

Only problem is that Microsoft will stop supporting 7 soon (if they haven't already?)

golfbag wrote:

Having used both extensively, definitely go with 7.

Agreed with the above poster that 8 is the WOAT. 10 has some features from 8, so I like 7 better.

Only problem is that Microsoft will stop supporting 7 soon (if they haven't already?)

I hated 8 and 8.1 so much I wiped my hard drives and installed Linux Mint, but Windows 10 seems to be okay.

I agree that 10 has some of the negative features from 8, but you can disable all of them, I think. I boot directly to desktop. I never see the metro desktop. I loaded Classic Shell (free), so my start button looks and acts a lot like the start button in Windows 7. Is there something specific in Windows 10 that you can't change to be more like Windows 7? I might be able to help with that... just saying.

I prefer 7 at the moment. 10 will need to mature a bit, I couldn't get it to do an image backup to a network location without it failing. Since we are nearly all virtual the OS doesn't have the focus it once had. We'll probably migrate to 10 beginning in the spring.

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fisky wrote:

I was a beta tester for Windows 10 since last November and my wife and I have been using the public release since late July. It boots a lot faster than Windows 7. I've had no crashes with the public release. I'd suggest Windows 10.

Psuedo boot. The systems isn't really booting up as fast as you think. MS has been tweaking Win OS for millennia to make it appear it is booting faster than it really is. Many process are still loading in the background for awhile.

If you're working for any decent sized company, it really doesn't matter what os YOU want. You will use what the IT department gives you and requires you to use to connect to the company network. Standard practice for IT departments has been to never upgrade to a Microsoft OS until after Service Pack 1 comes out. And for both servers and clients, the higher security/hacking risks now are going to cause people to be more conservative than in the past.

downhill after 7 wrote:

Windows 10 will also send every little thing you do to 3rd parties

Some of the phoning home was backported to Win7.

I'm guaranteed a job supporting it though, so there's that.

Win7 wait till the first service pack for Win10 (with the classic shell).

And don't forget Kevin Mitnick is coming out with a new book (next year)

on securing all digital devices. I think Mitnick should consider the a chapter on securing the windows 10 operating system with various browsers from

home use to business use.

bijon wrote:

And don't forget Kevin Mitnick is coming out with a new book (next year)

on securing all digital devices. I think Mitnick should consider the a chapter on securing the windows 10 operating system .

Neither is possible. In terms of a more reliably secure operating system, mac is still sort of unix-ish in user mode.

People who won't panic about not running either Windows or mac would be quite happy with a Linux distribution. Mint is good. I run Debian stable right now.

OP didn't say if his workplace is providing the laptop or if he works for himself. If it's given by his workplace, chance are they're going to upgrade him to Windows 10 at some point anyway. You don't want that transition - therefore, go with Windows 10 right away.

Oh, and sorry that they give you a Windows PC and not a Mac.

Apple Guy wrote:

OP didn't say if his workplace is providing the laptop or if he works for himself. If it's given by his workplace, chance are they're going to upgrade him to Windows 10 at some point anyway. You don't want that transition - therefore, go with Windows 10 right away.

Oh, and sorry that they give you a Windows PC and not a Mac.

Thanks for all the responses. Work is paying for the desktop, but I can pretty much choose whatever I want as long as the price is reasonable. I don't have to get Windows 10 if I don't want (I cannot get Windows 10 Home edition because it doesn't work on our network, as I'm told).

If you're getting a desktop pretty much your only choice is the new iMac retina. The PC options are pretty awful at this point.

You can install Windows via Bootcamp - make sure you use some third party tools like better touch tool.

If it was a laptop, you could always go with a Macbook Pro Retina, but you could as well get a Dell XPS - which is surprisingly good.

But Desktop, yeah, your out of luck when it comes to PCs. All garbage.

Win 10 seems to combine the more forward looking aspects of 8 with the steady reliability of 7.

So far I like it, the only issue Ive had is video playback.

golfbag wrote:

Agreed with the above poster that 8 is the WOAT.

I remember Win ME. That was definitely the worst.