Originally posted by MarkJerling You don't need to. You can set Windows 10 to do updates outside your normal active hours.
Originally posted by MarkJerling Sure you can. Just create your own custom colour.
Hi,
first, no interest in beating this to death back and forth, and perhaps I worded things in too absolute a manner. I/my kids have messed around with off hour updates, setting wireless for metered connections etc., but at some point, the machine has not been left on to whatever appointed hour, it gets plugged into a network cable without thinking of the backlog, whatever, but somehow someway, we all seem to get updates pushed on us at really inconvenient times, and some of those updates can just go on and on. And if you approach it from the perspective of a 16 year old bopping through life, leaving the laptop on long enough often enough to get it in the off hours can be off the proverbial radar.
Regarding the color stuff, 10 has gotten better, and now the custom color option actually resembles the old color wheel going way back, but it was really lousy in the first releases. However, I still don't see the degree of control we've had before as seen below, where it's really easy to adjust different combinations on a granular level. If it's all there in 10, I'd be more than happy to get straightened out, but I will up front say it shouldn't be so hard if it's hidden someplace else or takes a "God mode" ( for those not familiar:
windows god mode at DuckDuckGo )
All in all, my complaint is just that in typical fashion, the user is loosing control, and I just find it annoying. I'm used to being the super user, not the worker bee with no privileges on the other end. This is where stuff like the new update routines and changes to the interface are just annoying to me. I also miss the Aero desktop to some degree. Again, I know there's some support for transparency, but I feel like the GUI is really getting homogenized to look like a tablet device with a touch screen (which I can't stand), and I get that is perhaps the trend MS wants to take it, streamline the codebase, unify the experience and so forth, so then I'm happy I can grab a product like Stardock's Object desktop to at least get the GUI back to where i like it.
Something I'm really tired of is data collection, and yes, it's everywhere, I know. If you've got a way to stop the data collection in 10 itself, I'd love to know. I'd like to turn it off completely, beyond the "basic" setting for telemetry. Again, I'm crusty. I don't want my "user experience customized" based on my behavior. I try to avoid the Google bubble etc. You'll notice the link above is duckduckgo
I get that some really like 10, and then there are others like myself who just haven't found it appetizing. I see some small niceties here in there, but all in all, nothing runs better for me than my 7 Pro setup. And for that matter, I'm really on the verge of throwing together another boot configuration to load Linux and start playing with the photo tools available there. I just haven't figured out which distro I want to play with. I've got a ton of CentOS servers at work, but not sure if I might want a different flavor for photo oriented work. Any recommendations?