Win 10 - oh boy, she's ugly
Got a "new old" Dell Intel 4500 USFF with Win 10. For use as a poor man's HTPC, $80. VLC player runs, Firefox works, RF remote works. Previous machine was running Win XP - just to show how humble my needs are.
Should've got Win 7 instead. I've been warned.
Start menu with sh-t load of bloatware, most of it I don't need and can't unpin or uninstall.
Stupid apps tiles making Start nearly full-screen wide, I removed them all to keep the width narrow. You have to remove all tiles, otherwise window remains wide.
Alphabet letter tabs in Start - what is this, a school library? Just make a clean list, sorted alphabetically.
No apps icons in Start, have to read before you click, and fonts are white against color background. Most readable fonts are black on white, or black on some pale color, not the other way around. White fonts on dark background are only good for a big 10ft interface like those on TV screens, and for this people have TV box or Kodi or Roku.
Ugly choice of colors for desktop, Taskbar and Start menu. Icon size is not adjustable (it is, through Custom size, but you'd better not use it).
File window in Win Explorer is crowded with dozens of toolbars and menus that you might never need and can't remove.
Scroll bar is 0.00000000...1" wide, can barely see it, can imagine somebody with poor eyesight or with tablet.
Windows have no borders - multiple open windows are white on white, can't see where one ends and another one begins. (Teeny-tiny border can be added through Personalize, barely visible).
All in all, Win 10 leaves impression of unfinished high-school project. Not as disastrous as Win 8 was, but not worth upgrading from Win 7 either.
MS Edge browser is a "ok", compared to IE, still not as nice as Firefox, so - no benefits here.
Can't wait to install Kodi full-screen to auto-launch every time machine starts, so that I won't have to look at this ugliness.
Rant off.
Should've got Win 7 instead. I've been warned.
Start menu with sh-t load of bloatware, most of it I don't need and can't unpin or uninstall.
Stupid apps tiles making Start nearly full-screen wide, I removed them all to keep the width narrow. You have to remove all tiles, otherwise window remains wide.
Alphabet letter tabs in Start - what is this, a school library? Just make a clean list, sorted alphabetically.
No apps icons in Start, have to read before you click, and fonts are white against color background. Most readable fonts are black on white, or black on some pale color, not the other way around. White fonts on dark background are only good for a big 10ft interface like those on TV screens, and for this people have TV box or Kodi or Roku.
Ugly choice of colors for desktop, Taskbar and Start menu. Icon size is not adjustable (it is, through Custom size, but you'd better not use it).
File window in Win Explorer is crowded with dozens of toolbars and menus that you might never need and can't remove.
Scroll bar is 0.00000000...1" wide, can barely see it, can imagine somebody with poor eyesight or with tablet.
Windows have no borders - multiple open windows are white on white, can't see where one ends and another one begins. (Teeny-tiny border can be added through Personalize, barely visible).
All in all, Win 10 leaves impression of unfinished high-school project. Not as disastrous as Win 8 was, but not worth upgrading from Win 7 either.
MS Edge browser is a "ok", compared to IE, still not as nice as Firefox, so - no benefits here.
Can't wait to install Kodi full-screen to auto-launch every time machine starts, so that I won't have to look at this ugliness.
Rant off.
