Nope, not the same in the least. Not that i dislike consoles are anything, I've got a PS4 pro. I've built a PC to be more powerful than any current console only to be brought down by an OS update. An update to some program no one hardly uses anyhow.
But its
not brought down by an 'OS update'. Even with the reduced performance there is a fair chance you'd never even notice. Like I'm saying, I play quite a lot of games and I really can't tell - from a clean install compared to having all the spectre, meltdown mitigations from the MB vendor and MS itself updated. And even IF you don't like an update, this topic contains the info you need to avoid it. No different from any situation on 7, where tinkering was needed to get things the way you want them to be.
I think people misunderstand things quite a bit. MS does
not benefit from making its OS more bloated and overall slower, especially not if they want to push it or lightweight versions of it to smaller and more mobile devices. MS also has a gaming brand on the PC they call Xbox. They also have a gaming brand called Xbox consoles. MS does
not benefit from making gaming slower on any platform. This is why they also push things like a game mode, though frankly, I never use it because the difference isn't really noticeable.
These things, just like a broken update, hurt their brand image. And that extends beyond the consumer realm as well. These same consumers are also
employees working with MS enterprise solutions.
Bottom line, we share a lot of things as consumers and MS, we mostly want the same thing, there is little reason to be against everything and most notably, against progress. I'm using 7 and 10 side by side almost daily and I can objectively say 10 is faster and more responsive in every way, it boots faster, it is less prone to crashing or not being able to continue when other applications crash, and yes, it gets more updates which also means sometimes things change a bit. On 7, most updates served to fix glaring security holes everywhere and 'add functionality' such as a half broken Windows Defender, which, ironically, is also one of the better anti malware suites right now on 10.
ALL have EULAs that we agreed on in order to use them. No point in talking about privacy when you "surrender" your social freedom after signing up. Seeing Win 10 doing all these are nothing new. So why complain about it when you know you half-heartedly agreed to it?
Wow wow hold on now. Is that really a choice? There is legislation coming and already in place that limits the weight of an EULA, specifically because its a 'choice' that presents no real choice; you either suck it up or you don't use a product or service. There isn't much to agree to, in many cases you've already made an expense prior to accepting it, a sale was already made, etc.
Its the same as the recent adaptation to cookie walls; forcing a user to click 'accept' or otherwise denying access to the website is going to be considered illegal. Cookie walls must be adjusted, users have to be able to visit sites WITH the actual choice of disabling tracking cookies and telemetry. In the same way, I expect an OS with near monopoly to follow the same principle.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/european-data-protection-board-backs-61821/
Its an interesting battle over our data being waged right now and the devil is in these details. Its only a matter of time for everyone to get back in line.
If you like to tweak around in your OS it's always best to install ultimate or enterprise in this case. The update system is something I specifically researched before picking a Win 10 version.
