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user-inactivated  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft makes final, aggressive Windows 10 upgrade push

Get the GWX Control Panel

I have a Win 7 machine, Win 8.1 machine, A few Ubuntu boxes and a Win10 laptop.

As long as I do not do anything with the laptop I like it. Try to change graphics settings? Audio? get low level control of the USB ports for astronomy software and cameras? Fuck Win10. I can't uninstall Cortana, can't turn it off, can't stop it from fucking with my usb-serial adapter(?)!

As funny as this will sound, the one OS I really enjoy is the 8.1 machine. Other than the fucked up start menu garbage they pulled on us, I can do the work I need when I want to tinker under the hood. I think I am staying 8.1 on the stuff that has to run Windows until Win11 fixes all this shit.