My experiences with Windows 10

[MicaelS]

I have been trying the latest version (10074) and did a clean install on one of my 120GB SSD. I did not like it too much. Was way too different from my beloved Win 7 Pro. I have not used 8 or 8.1.

Then I cloned my Win 7 Pro install to another 120GB SSD, and did an in-place upgrade install on the clone drive. Frankly I did not expect it work given the number of programs I have running. It took about 2 hours with multiple restarts, but it finally came back up, and I was very impressed.

I only had a few programs that did not work. Perfect Disk Defragger was the main one. Had 2 updates that refused to go though. One for an Asus motherboard driver and one for the latest Nvidia WHQL driver (running a GTX970). I used it all weekend long this past weekend, including multiple visits to DU, and had no OS crashes. Firefox crashed multiple times.

I was hesitant beforehand, thinking I might stay with Win 7. Now, I'm looking forward to Windows 10.

[MuseRider]

1. I like 8.1

I was coming from a side track that had me using a Mac for a while. Vista had been my last. As your experience, occasionally a program will crash but 8.1 never has. It took me a while and there are things I don't like much but on the whole I sure like it more than I liked Vista and I really like no crashes, not one blue screen of death.

[JayhawkSD]

2. "I sure like it more than I liked Vista"

Well, duh. I would like a bad case of venereal disease better than I liked Vista.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. I don't like 8.1

I use it like Win 7. Win 10 looks promising though.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

4. Why do you use a defragger on an SSD?

Serious question - I thought you don't have to defrag SSDs.

[MicaelS]

5. I have multiple spinner hard drives

I use it for them. Although, Perfect Disk has an SSD Optimize setting.

[hobbit709]

6. You really don't want to defrag a SSD.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/298108-32-defragging-year-never

[MicaelS]

7. I am well aware of that, thank you. n/t

[Fantastic Anarchist]

8. Thank you!

[steve2470]

9. 10130 is looking ok so far

They have plenty of bugs to fix. They also need to clarify what "lifetime of the device" really means. New cpu means new license ? New motherboard ?