July 29 has come and passed , with Windows 10 being released as expected. There are some nice additions and some oddities. And now I am back to doing whatever \u00a0I was doing before installing it, which is just the way it should be.<\/p>\n
While I have had the the preview versions running on virtual machines and old laptops since last October, I have waited for the final release to update my primary PC. Not only because I don’t want to take chances on the workhorse that also handles all l my private stuff (I don’t want to repeat the surprises I got with OneDrive after upgrading to windows 8.1 and I don’t mind that this online\/off-line file thing is not in Windows 10 (yet)), but also because I use the opportunity to upgrade the system with new discs etc. (and doing the upgrade without touching the existing system definitely gives peace of mind).<\/p>\n
I prefer to do\u00a0clean installs – and have done so ever since (inevitable?) mixed success\u00a0when I installed Windows 95 and OS\/2 Warp on top of Windows 3.1\u00a0–\u00a0so I followed this guide from Ars Technica:\u00a0How to do a clean install of Windows 10 (from Windows 7 and 8)<\/a>, starting out with a fresh Windows 7 installation. It was quite straightforward.<\/p>\n It still amazes me how easy it has become to install a new OS, be that Windows or Linux. Long gone are the days of gathering a stack of driver CDs (or floppies : ) for each piece of hardware in the box, \u00a0and gone are the anxiety that a wrong move might require you to start installation all over. Having done the Windows 7 installation just before installing Windows 10 demonstrated recent improvements: For the first one I needed to install the LAN card driver, for Win 10 I didn’t. The only disc I needed this time was the driver for\u00a0software and driver for my scanner – everything else was available online, including drivers for an old TV card I just bought second hand.<\/p>\n It is good to see the new operating system running on proper\u00a0hardware and so far all is good. There were no surprises\u00a0(which is not surprising, since the final version was the as the latest Insider preview). I don’t doubt\u00a0sure there are bugs to be fixed new UI inconsistencies and useless touch\u00a0UI apps, but\u00a0after installing my usual suite of application I probably won’t notice any that. Outlook for mail, Google Chrome browser, Evernote, Steam… \u00a0It all runs and I am back to doing things the usual way, with the OS\u00a0being unnoticeable\u00a0once the login screen is passed.<\/p>\n In that way,\u00a0moving to the new OS is both totally irrelevant\u00a0and all important. Irrelevant\u00a0because once my favorite software is installed I will hardly notice it, all important because a well working and fully updated OS is what allows me to concentrate fully on work and play, without having to worry\u00a0about what happens under the hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 29 has come and passed , with Windows 10 being released as expected. There are some nice additions and some oddities. And now I am back to doing whatever \u00a0I was doing before installing it, which is just the way it should be. While I have had the the preview versions running on virtual … Continue reading Windows 10 Installed and so what? (in a good way)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Windows-10-banner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WBL8-5S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}