03-28-2019, 02:36 AM
Yep! I've been using 10 on my school laptop and I have to say, it is a butt ugly OS. I don't mind simple and clean by any means, but the glaring white is eye-sizzling and a lot of the apps (like Defender) are actually hard to navigate sometimes. It takes a minute for my eyes to adjust to the layout of what I'm seeing. I too am a little off-put by what appears to be a backwards move in GUI design.
I have an MS account, but I set this laptop up (and will do so for all future Windows 10 machines) as local accounts. When I first turned this thing on it wanted to connect to every Windows 10 device within a ten mile radius (hyperbole), and I was not having it. Once I got it to stop bothering me and to, well, act like Windows as I'm used to it acting, I began to feel pretty good about it, too. Features are nice, as long as you can shut them off if you don't need them.
One complaint I've had is that when it comes to finding ways to tweak settings, the instructions I find online are not exactly 100% percent applicable to my own system. It's as if the OS or layout thereof changed in some fundamental way in the time it took for someone to publish instructions on how to shut something off, or make some tweak or other. I'm not sure why that would be or if you had the same experience. This was especially bothersome when tweaking privacy features, for instance, because what the screen looked like in one person's tutorial did not match what my screen looked like. Sometimes features were in completely different places.
I have an MS account, but I set this laptop up (and will do so for all future Windows 10 machines) as local accounts. When I first turned this thing on it wanted to connect to every Windows 10 device within a ten mile radius (hyperbole), and I was not having it. Once I got it to stop bothering me and to, well, act like Windows as I'm used to it acting, I began to feel pretty good about it, too. Features are nice, as long as you can shut them off if you don't need them.
One complaint I've had is that when it comes to finding ways to tweak settings, the instructions I find online are not exactly 100% percent applicable to my own system. It's as if the OS or layout thereof changed in some fundamental way in the time it took for someone to publish instructions on how to shut something off, or make some tweak or other. I'm not sure why that would be or if you had the same experience. This was especially bothersome when tweaking privacy features, for instance, because what the screen looked like in one person's tutorial did not match what my screen looked like. Sometimes features were in completely different places.