I really enjoy reading threads like this.

Do you? Does your Apple peen get all hard? Maybe you should head over the Apple's app store and read all the one-star reviews for OSX Yosemite with people saying Apple is broken and are switching to Windows. Talk about blind fanboy bias, ffs...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-yosemite/id915041082?mt=12&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITUHOME-NEWAPPLICATIONS&ign-mpt=uo%3D2

I'm probably one of the few people who doesn't understand why people hate 8.1, I actually like it...Looking forward to trying 10 though once it's settled in. Does anyone know how long the upgrade will be free?

8.1 is pretty good usb drivers aside. It just takes a little behavioral acclimatization for normal windows users. I can totally understand as I'm an intuitive person. Once you get over it and figure it out, it's stellar. most stable and slick windows I've had yet. Boots up and shuts down faster than my mother's Macbook Pro which seems to have slowed down. I don't have to stare at a powder blue screen and spinning tachometer for almost 10 seconds.

Glad to hear the Schitt is on top of things.

Just to clarify, Schiit has released new gen 2 usb drivers, but the official Win 10 yggy driver is still pending release in early August.  Nonetheless, I can confirm my Yggy is up and running post-Windows update with the old Yggy/gen 3 driver.  Seems like I get occasional skips with high CPU activity, but for listening through foobar wasapi, it is working just as it used to.

I took a break from Win 10.  Yesterday evening I cleaned my keyboard (it had been covered in flecks of spittle from my spluttering fury) and booted it again.  Calm.  Stay calm.  Be calm.  Chant calm.  Om shanti shanti shanti.  Ensure that icy cold beers and a bottle opener are to hand.  Maybe even a glass.  Check.

Nope, it's still shit.  I can't get the nvidia driver via Windows driver update.  OK, fire up the new Windows browser and head to nvidia:  it can't identify my hardware because it needs a Java browser plug-in and Windows' new browser doesn't support plug-ins.  That's OK, I know what my hardware is so I do it the manual way and download the driver according to OS/architecture/card.  It downloads fine, it unpacks fine, it executes fine but it can't install the driver.  Why?  Because the nvidia driver installer cannot proceed to conclusion while the OS's own driver update process takes precedence.  btw the latest nvidia driver was already installed and working perfectly in Win 7 before embarking on the Win 10 upgrade.  I also noticed that the entire Win 10 GUI can freeze while a new tab loads in Edge (the new browser), not just for a second but for minutes!  I also found that my barebones OS with not a single 3rd party application occupied more than 50GB of disk space, and this without any restore partition.  That is utterly laughable.  My Debian 64-bit OS on the same hardware (different disk is only difference), complete with open office, 3d games, and more applications and tools than I can count occupies just under 10GB for / and it runs *fast*.

Anyway, I booted clonezilla (disk imager) and restored Win 7.  It's not my favourite operating system but at least it does support all my very ordinary hardware (Core i3, 8GB RAM, SATA disks, nvidia graphics card, USB dac and so on) without developing issues around sulking and refusing to work right.

I guess I'll have another look at it in a few months, after Billy G has grudgingly conceded it has been a giant fuck up and tried to fix the worst.  I believe this is traditionally referred to as SP1.

I like Win8.1 also.

They took away win+i!!!!!

Reclaim your start menu for desktop. If you ever need your desktop to be a desktop take back your easy access.

I refrain from expressing profanities to remain calm, I just had a fresh coffee and all is good.

For 1 year after release, I believe.

Cool. I'm planning on doing the built in upgrade. I know people usually recommend a fresh install, but I have installed Windows 8 3 times on my PCs in the past 3 months. I don't want to have to re-set everything up again.