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I really, really like Windows 10. I spend most of my work days in OS X on a Macbook Pro - but I also spend a lot of my free time gaming. Windows 10 is so much more user-friendly than any other OS I use. Settings are easy to find, generally easy to understand and change. Search is great. It boots super fast. It's about to get a 'game-mode' to restrict resources from background apps. Installing stuff from the Windows store has slow download speeds (compared to steam, apple) - but I have much fewer 'app is stuck in update' issues compared to OS X.

I'm super happy with it.

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> Settings are easy to find

Hah. You're lucky your Cortana bar still works. They aren't as easy to find when your Cortana bar disappears when you click it. Tried all the random fixes on the internet to no avail. I never even tried to fix privacy concerns -- it just broke.

I have Cortana turned completely off and settings are really easy to get to. Win key -> sett<enter> isn't particularly difficult. Or just typing in part of the setting usually finds it right away.

Maybe you're just lucky, or you're the sort of user MS is targeting with their new UI design. Whenever I'm configuring a W10 machine I find myself going back and forth between two completely different configuration interfaces. I.e. the Control Panel and the Settings app.

To be far I'm the same as the grandparent post, but I tend to stick to the legacy settings menus which still have everything and only encounter the new ones occasionally (ie: updates).

I've learned enough of the new one to navigate it, but I can still basically type my way through settings in the old style menus still so it doesn't bother me.

Yeah something like that worked in win7, but now... Win key -> zero response to any text and if I click the text entry box it disappears. Maybe I should turn Cortana off completely, but right now I'm looking into switching to 100% Linux. It's just easier.

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