GazChap wrote:
I think Hearthly's point is probably more "it fucking shouldn't be this way."
Unfortunately Microsoft are stuck really, they have so much legacy code and applications that they need to support that I think getting rid of all of the bodges etc. is just unrealistic.
It's more that it shouldn't be this way, AND it doesn't have to be this way. It's the 'feature' updates for Win10 that tend to be the most problematic, since these essentially reinstall the OS multiple times per year. The routine security and cumulative updates are generally OK.
As I pointed out earlier in the thread, Windows 7 is a fully supported and maintained operating system, but because it doesn't get stupid feature updates, it remains a fast, stable, solid operating system, with smaller updates on a less frequent basis, that don't actively fuck up things that were previously working fine. (We've still got two Windows 7 machines in the house, they're a dream compared to the Windows 10 machines.)
Microsoft chose to make Windows 10 the way it is, the way Windows 7 has worked since it went onto Extended Support shows there's no need for Windows 10 to work the way it does, that's a Microsoft choice that suits them, not their customers.
I mean, just ask anyone to name one thing they dislike about Windows 10, and an awful lot of people will say 'The way it's always updating itself', and the truth is that a lot of those updates are unnecessary.