I am very pleased with the operation of WIN 10 on my “Office” box. (My computer) Most of it is due to the upgrades I made in the video card and a couple of 1 Terabyte hard drives. The HD’s have 64 MB buffers and fast 7400 rpm platters. Mostly it’s the video card that made the biggest difference as far as hardware, However the WIN 10 gets some praise as a snappy OS.
The reason I need the Windows OS is my investment in top quality photograph and CAD/CNC drawing programs. Just about anything else I have found good quality (free) programs on my Linux computer.
In my last post you can tell I like to work with computers until I can break them. I seldom break them permanently but sometimes that does worry me.
I have WIN 10 set up so it looks no different on the home screen than what it was in WIN 7. The CPU (a quad 64 bit) and the memory (8 Gigs) hasn’t changed but all my software is performing much faster than before. As I said it could the premium video card.
The bottom line is I think I have rescued my ten year old box from obsolescence and it is again a near state-of-the-art performer. I am not into touch screens and all the poo-key social media that is driving the mobile youth touch screen computing frenzy. I just want a well performing desk computer that I don’t have to make excuses to myself for owning. WIN 10 can be old school if I want it to be.
It has my recommendation with one caveat. It may not work with old hardware. If doing an update over an older OS, there is a chance of failure. Back up everything important, or do a clean bare metal install.