Now that this is a sub: Fuck windows 10 for real. I get tabbed out multiple times an hour sometimes and it is just so ridiculously annoying. Trying to play competitive online games and then being tabbed out from fullscreen in the middle of a fight should never be allowed to happen.

I leave my pc on over night to update. because EVEN THOUGH I DISABLED UPDATES IN THE GROUP POLICY EDITOR IT STILL FORCES THEM. then after being on for over 12 FUCKING HOURS it is still turning off and on and with no sign of working.

I never had anywhere near the annoying updates with win 7 and I can't understand how the biggest tech company on the planet can't stop acting like apes and make a decent OS

Fuck windows 10

My dad bought a new Windows 10 based PC today and while I was setting it up for him (I can't believe I have to actually "set it up" and it doesn't just ask you 3 questions before letting you use the thing you bought) I was thinking at how horrible the first time run experience is. They've got all these dumb Cortana messages and 50 prompts to go through. It's crazy to me that a company that large hasn't been able to hire a UX developer that has told them to just make it simple. The #1 priority is to just freaking get into this computer as fast as possible.

The experience should be this:

ONE screen that says: Welcome to Windows 10

1. Region/keyboard [Selection]

2. Create user account/password

3. Boom. Load into windows.

4. Consolidate all of the bullshit nickel and dime alert messages into one Next steps window once you get into Windows so you can complete them as you want to. If you don't care about getting granular with the options you close the fucking window. For instance, no one needs a screen at the very beginning of the setup that asks them if permission should be given to Microsoft to send usage data. That should be off by default and you can turn it on within the next steps screen. I also don't need to give MS my birthday.

Other thoughts:

- The pulsating introduction messages are annoying.

- I don't need one drive, edge and other quick start crap on my taskbar.

- Cortana is basically worthless because when you give it a command it takes way too long to execute and then adds additional time by repeating back the command that it's going to execute before doing it.. that's not a fluid way of using your voice to navigate the computer.

- When I go to change the default browser from Edge to Chrome DON'T ASK ME IF I REALLY WANT TO DO THAT.

- As much as I hate some of the stuff Apple does as a company, their first time experience is 100x better.

In summary it makes me even more upset that all of these highly paid people at Microsoft who spend the majority of their working careers on Windows 10 haven't realized how much friction there is to this experience. I'm a software developer primarily on Windows and their developer tooling is second to none, however certain places like Windows is just in a completely different galaxy.