Imminent Twilight Zone ending for Kogasa.

With Planet Robobot's...bleaker than bleak setting, this is much scarier than it should be.

It is indescribable terror. Did his luck finally anger the machine !?

I'm afraid...you'll have to take this survey:

What scares you?
• Color-scrambling on your display from graphics card failure
• Data corruption from insufficient memory
• Poor operation from power source failure
• Sudden blue screen
• Windows 10 update

Reader-added tags include "Showing the true ability of a youkai", "No 'All of the above' in the survey", and "Survey through which you understand the menace of Windows 10".

Today's survey is a no-brainer: Windows 10 update

Schrobby said:

Today's survey is a no-brainer: Windows 10 update

It'd be nice if Windows Updates were more transparent so you'd know which ones to uninstall and disable to avoid Win10.

What scares you?

• Windows 10 update

All of the above is avoidable with good maintenance and reasonable data backups.

Windows 10 updates is non-negotiable. No modern system can escape the Windows 10 Update.

Unless you're on an outdated system like the XP, which isnt' saying much because it's already been discontinued.

Or a Mac. Or Linux. But, seriously. How many people here aren't Windows user? (Not to discriminate or anything, but Windows users have it tough when the maker themselves are being painfully pushy.)

AdventZero said:

Or a Mac. Or Linux. But, seriously. How many people here aren't Windows user? (Not to discriminate or anything, but Windows users have it tough when the maker themselves are being painfully pushy.)

Linux user here. Primary is Opensuse but occasionally will use Debian if a more stable base is required.

AdventZero said:

All of the above is avoidable with good maintenance and reasonable data backups.

Windows 10 updates is non-negotiable. No modern system can escape the Windows 10 Update.

Unless you're on an outdated system like the XP, which isnt' saying much because it's already been discontinued.

Or a Mac. Or Linux. But, seriously. How many people here aren't Windows user? (Not to discriminate or anything, but Windows users have it tough when the maker themselves are being painfully pushy.)

Win7 user here: no sign of any 'upgrade to win10' ever because I turned off auto-updates since the start of installation. Not that it was needed anyway.

I too prefer Opensuse of all systems in the world ( with equally Teutonic KDE ) although for a month or two I've had to use Mint ( with KDE ) --- s'ok, but I suffer from YAST withdrawal.

AdventZero said:

Or a Mac. Or Linux. But, seriously. How many people here aren't Windows user? (Not to discriminate or anything, but Windows users have it tough when the maker themselves are being painfully pushy.)

100% Mac user, though I do Windows development with Parallels. Considering I am touching this computer for 16 hours a day some days, using a machine I actually want to use is worth the extra money.

Primarily Mac at work, and that's my preferred UI, but I can't afford one for home use. I had a small but adequate Asus EEE machine running on XP for the past 3-5 years, but after a certain point, it never updated its system properly. (Updates always took up all the memory/commit charge, and I'm not nearly PC-savvy enough to have figured out how to get around that.) Then it began bogging down so badly I thought it was severely infected, but I was told by someone who ostensibly knows better that such was not the case; the chip architecture was simply too outdated to handle what it needed to do these days. I finally got a modestly priced replacement running on, yes, Win 10. Following the standard minor tribulations with initial set-up and updates (plus installing some programs I just wanted, like Gimp), it hasn't given me any trouble. Then again, it's only been 2-3 weeks, perhaps not enough time for a system update to wreck anything.

Moonspeaker said:

I finally got a modestly priced replacement running on, yes, Win 10. Following the standard minor tribulations with initial set-up and updates (plus installing some programs I just wanted, like Gimp), it hasn't given me any trouble. Then again, it's only been 2-3 weeks, perhaps not enough time for a system update to wreck anything.

There were a bunch of updates already that rendered Win 10 machines useless, from various software that stopped running up to boot loops. I'm sure it will happen again. Knowing what update breaks your system won't help either since you can't prevent the installation. Well, you could stop using the internet. lol
The best solution is to get rid of that buggy bloated spyware and install Win7.

Schrobby said:

There were a bunch of updates already that rendered Win 10 machines useless, from various software that stopped running up to boot loops. I'm sure it will happen again. Knowing what update breaks your system won't help either since you can't prevent the installation. Well, you could stop using the internet. lol
The best solution is to get rid of that buggy bloated spyware and install Win7.

I actually got the Win10 setup on the recommendation of my more PC-savvy friend, who claims he's been operating on it for some time without the difficulties others here have detailed.

XP in and of itself didn't prove a problem for me, but my computer's old architecture (Atom, I think) and possibly the Asus core programming did, so perhaps I could have gone for something like that. We'll see what happens.

Windows 10

I have waited for the moment to use this

Schrobby said:
Knowing what update breaks your system won't help either since you can't prevent the installation.

KB3073930 says you can (didn't test it myself). That said it's unnecessarily hidden / difficult.

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The text garbling actually doesn't seem to be the more commonly seen text encoding problem / corruption but the sign controller (or it's driver) completely breaking down.

The free update to Windows 10 did kill my 5 year old previous machine but my new daily driver runs on Windows 10 with no issues and the best performance I've ever had from a laptop. I guess I'm just lucky?

I have 4 out of 5 systems all running Windows 10 (the only one that isn't upgrade qualified) and another 3 or 4 virtual systems with 10. Zero issues with any of them. And yes, they all get updates as they come out.

I do love when I run into an environment that refuses to install updates when I do security testing. It's the equivalent of hitting the easy button for finding issues. The only problem is that it sometimes distracts underlying architectural issues because they aren't as flashy...

If you're using anything with an Nvidia graphics card, Win10 is problematic from what I've seen. At best, you get TDRs once in a while. At worst, you'll get corrupted graphics and regular BSODs due to the horrible driver support that Nvidia has had the past 18 months, particularly with Win10.

Rathurue said:

Win7 user here: no sign of any 'upgrade to win10' ever because I turned off auto-updates since the start of installation. Not that it was needed anyway.

See, "not that it was needed" is why MS ended up forcing the updates. Nobody "needs" security updates until shit happens.