
What happens if you install a driver that works but it's older than the one on Windows update that doesn't work properly? It forces the shitty driver with every update.

Windows update also downloads drivers for your computer. Obviously, nobody there is going to test old software, or the more enterprise-oriented features. Almost no testing goes into these updates before they are pushed to the general public, because there isn't enough time, and because Microsoft replaced its whole testing department with the Windows Insider program, where a bunch of kids test the latest updates before release.

This is the result of Microsoft going for a fast development cycle for a product that is simply too big and complex to allow for this kind of development. Oh, and good luck if you need to share things using SMB (network shares), discovery has been broken for years. If this was Windows 7, I could have simply ignored that update, but no, this is Windows 10 so it keeps breaking my balls every few hours because that update is pending, and it fails every time, and it will continue to do so until I reinstall Windows again. You can't expect the average user to be able to do that.Īfter reinstalling, everything seemed was fine for less than a month, then Windows update broke and kept trying to reinstall the 2019-05 update and failing because it was already installed. NET platform broke, and the only way to fix it was to reinstall Windows. In my case, after the 1903 update, I ended up with a ton of applications failing to execute because the. Windows 10 is NOT stable, especially in the first months after a major update, you have to expect all sorts of issues. Note for Stallman fans: I will refer to GNU/Linux as just Linux. Let's discuss the reasons that pushed me away from Windows. I mean, look at my Windows 10 privacy guide, it's 25 pages long and it's getting longer with every update. With its fast development cycle of 6 months like a mobile OS, the system became less and less stable with every update, more bloat was added, and they even made it hard to get rid of it, and let's not even get into the whole privacy topic. It all changed about 4 years ago when Windows 10 came out.

I've been using Windows since I was a kid, and to be fair, it's always been a really good OS in my opinion: easy to use for the noob, powerful enough for the more experienced user, good looking, stable, and backwards compatible with nearly 30 years of PC software and games.
