Hehe. Reminds me of the very early days of Linux (which is actually fine for the desktop these days). I’d toy with the idea of leavng the WIndows world behind, then realise that I was missing something pretty fucking big, like sound, or wireless network adapter driver.
I think overall, I share Gabe Newell’s concern that Windows is heading in the wrong direction, that Microsoft have had a little peek into Apple’s walled garden and thought “yeah, we’ll have some of that!”.
I think it’s time-limited to about a year, but you may wish to fact-check me on that. It’s a fairly canny move by Microsoft if it works. They want everyone in the same house. This is a decent incentive to ensure it happens.
So I have clicked the “Get Windows 10” app. I have not got Windows 10 yet. It tells me I will get a notification when it is ready to install. We shall see, Microsoft - we shall see.
I think they’re sending the update out in waves, which I can understand from an infrastructure point of view, but it’s a bit crap from a consumer standpoint.
I want my computer irreparably fucking broken with a new OS NOW, goddammit.
Just read a report on the BBC website and they reckon the waves of rollout will last weeks not days. As per normal for me I guess I’ll be one of the last ones…
Theorising that one could install Windows 10 within his own lifetime, Doctor Saint Bletch clicked the Accept button on the Get Windows 10 app and vanished…
He woke to find himself trapped in the past, downloading mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to get his laser printer working. His only guide on this journey is pap, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Bletch can see and hear. And so Doctor Bletch finds himself leaping from site to site, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next driver will be the driver home…