I'm done with insider previews

ThIs BuIlD oF wInDoWs WiLl ExPiRe SoOn

Get back to Linux then

@JASON Windows cycles from bad to good to bad to good to etc over time. I was wondering when we were going to get the "good" version of windows. I didn't realize windows 10 was the "good" version...

@Demolishun We didn't get any good Windows after Win 7. Instead, MS switched to "bad" vs. "even worse" Windows versions. The only winning move is not to play the game.

@Fast-Nop To be fair many things were broken in Win7 as well (e.g. updates). If MS didn't waste half their energy making things worse and adding lots of telemetry & ads though, by now they could actually have a very decent OS.

@saucyatom I had turned automatic updates off in Win 7. Instead, I waited for about a week after patchday whether there was anything unusual in the IT news outlets. If not, I downloaded the monthly security rollup manually, installed it on one machine at home for testing, and only then on the others.

I had the Win 7 machines here running for ten years without ever reinstalling Windows.

@Fast-Nop That's sensible, but what I meant is that late in its lifetime I always had issues with updates not downloading at all or taking days (literally). Even on a fresh install. (Not that I want to waste energy trying to find the cause now, that would be beating a dead horse.)

@saucyatom Yeah, the automatic updates often had problems because there were updates to the updater, and that wasn't really thought out well - in particular with a new installation where you'd only get an SP1 DVD.

There was an SP2 convenience pack, but only for download, never as installation DVD.