Allanm
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i have a Panasonic Toughbook running win 7. The only use it gets is to connect to a video cam used in my telescope, and to control the telescope itself. I went for the Toughbook because its waterproof and can be left outside for hours while running the cam
Anyway, I heard Windows 10 was starting to look like OSX and though it might be worth upgrading. I got the free update icon and thought, why not.
So, I started downloading win 10 on our very slow, sub 1 Megabit broadband connection.
About 15 hours later, it was ready to go. I pressed the next key and it told me it was preparing. A few minutes later it told me I had to manually uninstall one programme that wasn't compatible with win 10. So, I did. Then tried again. It came up with the same programme to be uninstalled. So, I tried again then realised I had to restart the computer to complete the uninstall
So I did
No windows 10 update, it was as if I had never tried to download it!
I had to re download the update!
This was last night. Before I went to bed, it was 59% downloaded. This morning, the Windows 7 desktop was staring at me with a message. Windows has restarted you computer after installing essential updates!
Stupid stupid system.
So, I have now restarted the download of win 10 for the third time
Compare that to OSX. When I download updates, it does it in the background. I can shut off my macbook, send it to sleep, pause the update or download it to the computer and install it when I want.
I just cannot find anything I like about the Windows operating system. I shall be looking at Linux to see if it will run my guiding and video cam programmes
On a good note, I like the robustness of the Toughbook.
Anyway, I heard Windows 10 was starting to look like OSX and though it might be worth upgrading. I got the free update icon and thought, why not.
So, I started downloading win 10 on our very slow, sub 1 Megabit broadband connection.
About 15 hours later, it was ready to go. I pressed the next key and it told me it was preparing. A few minutes later it told me I had to manually uninstall one programme that wasn't compatible with win 10. So, I did. Then tried again. It came up with the same programme to be uninstalled. So, I tried again then realised I had to restart the computer to complete the uninstall
So I did
No windows 10 update, it was as if I had never tried to download it!
I had to re download the update!
This was last night. Before I went to bed, it was 59% downloaded. This morning, the Windows 7 desktop was staring at me with a message. Windows has restarted you computer after installing essential updates!
Stupid stupid system.
So, I have now restarted the download of win 10 for the third time
Compare that to OSX. When I download updates, it does it in the background. I can shut off my macbook, send it to sleep, pause the update or download it to the computer and install it when I want.
I just cannot find anything I like about the Windows operating system. I shall be looking at Linux to see if it will run my guiding and video cam programmes
On a good note, I like the robustness of the Toughbook.