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My main concern is how many GOG games will perform correctly with Windows 10.

Thank you. Was looking for it in the system tray.
Current number is at 85% of the catalogue, and growing.

I still think I'll wait a bit before I install Windows 10.

No worries. You have one year for the free upgrade, and if you do upgrade and change your mind, you have a month to go back to your old OS.

Being nosey, how large if the ISO DL?

4102725632 bytes... roughly 3.8GB. Still only 75% done. I'll resume tomorrow I guess.

I'll likely be skipping Win10, but I am very curious about it.

I have two major problems with the OS so far. One of them is clear, and the other I'm a little fuzzy on.

The first problem I have is the forced updates. This is such a horrible idea, I don't even know where to begin. The PC market is not like the Mac market. There is far too much device diversity for this to work well. Driver issues galore. What about laptops? They are notorious for not being compatible with updated drivers like their desktop counterparts are. Will Windows 10 break my laptops? And regardless, I don't need Microsoft force feeding me updates when I'm not ready for them. What if I'm busy playing a game and my internet goes to shit while updates are downloading? Games like first person shooters rely heavily on having a clean and stable connection. What about people who have bandwidth caps? What about people who leave specific programs running while they're away, and the forced update happens and reboots their computer while it's in the middle of performing an important task?

So many issues with this setup that it's not even funny. Fortunately MS could fix this by simply rolling out an update that changes the Windows Update system back to the way it's always been.

The next major issue I have is where I'm a little bit fuzzy. I can't find a clear answer online, but maybe one of you has an answer to this. Okay - I have four full-version Win7 Pro Licenses, and one full-version Windows 8.1 Pro license. I can perform clean installs with these five keys on any computer I want, whenever I want, so long as I'm not using them on more than one PC at a time. I don't have to jump through hoops to install windows if my hard drive dies for example, or if I build a new machine entirely. So what happens if I accept the Windows 10 upgrade? Are my expensive FULL VERSION licenses suddenly reduced to mere 'upgrade' licenses that are worth half (or less) of the value of a full license? I read that the previous licenses are revoked, which would mean that I would be unable to revert back to my original full-version licenses if I didn't like Windows 10. Or, what if I built a new PC or had a hard drive failure, will I be able to use the Win10 upgrade key just like I could with my full-version 7 & 8.1 keys, or would they expect me to now buy another version of Win10?

Other than these two issues, the OS may be spectacular, but honestly either one of these issues, let alone both of them together, are enough for me to skip the OS entirely, at least for many years to come. I'm not going to fork over the cash to buy five full-version licenses of Win10 for my PC's when I have full-version licenses of windows that already work great for me. I love Windows 7, and I've learned to tolerate Win 8.1 well enough thanks to Classic Shell. I'm also not wiling to take the risk of bricking either one of my gaming laptops by upgrading if there are tons of drivers issues.

Am just waiting for some feedback, in a mostly indifferent state of mind.

Oh, also waiting for a clear list of non-win10 compatible games.

Hah! Awesome! My first Windows PC was with 3.1, which I thought was the best thing ever at the time. Still had to boot to DOS to run a lot of the games of the time, but it was still great. Prior to that I had a Commodore64, so going from that to 3.1 felt like a huge leap forward.


Edit: Speaking of Windows 3.1.... still waiting for someone to come up with a way to play the Castle of the Winds on modern OS's without having to run a virtual machine with 3.1 loaded....

Thanks :)

How am i supposed to get the Windows 10 upgrade? I reserved the upgrade months ago and i'm also in the Windows Preview program etc. But i don't see the upgrade icon anymore and this is what it says on my Windows Update

The downloads will be rolled out over the weeks and months following the initial release.


http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/2/8883325/windows-10-will-roll-out-in-waves

The 32bit version is smaller, only 2.8gb