No offence to the poster but stealing images from a Reddit mega thread, one of which is an outlier error and the other being 2 lines of text that wasn't changed in the "help" text, does not a terrible installer make. The same thread has hundreds if not thousands of posts indicating how easy the install was, only a few people are having issues which is to be expected on a product launch.<p>Also if you say, " I cant remember an instance in the last 10 years when it just failed on me randomly while updating Windows", I really can't take you seriously, especially with the qualifier: that Windows updater is a "rock solid" platform.
I just did a factory restore of my Windows 7 PC last night in preparation of the Windows 10 update. After finishing 4 years of Windows Updates (eventually), I wasn't offered an opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10 via Windows Update. Apparently, it's given out at random and you can't manually request it.<p>In order to manually update, you apparently have to download the Windows 10 ISO (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...</a> ) and create a boot media? And some are saying that this doesn't count as an "upgrade" for the Win7/Win8.1 Product Key. Maybe.<p>The Windows 10 upgrade path is more confusing than it needs to be.
That's strange.<p>We have a pile of the new Intel Compute Sticks, HDMI windows 8.1 x86 devices. They're pretty slick. So, I threw Win10 on them.<p>My big complaint is that the install took 2.5 hours. That sucked. And then it came up.<p>Like a charm. Super smooth, responsive and it just worked. Admittedly, I didnt have a firefox window to surf the web whilst being installed, but this was a 1 time affair.<p>I'm rather impressed with Win10 so far.
As a virt developer I spend a lot of time installing Windows and various Linux distros, and Windows (all versions) has terrible installers. However I'm also not surprised by this: almost no end user needs to run the Windows installer since the main way they get Windows is preinstalled on their PC.
Installing was a piece of cake. The only thing that annoyed me slightly was a dialog that said 'We will be done soon' and it took a few minutes.
Here's a helpful link
<a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/190217/10-alternative-pc-operating-systems-you-can-install/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/190217/10-alternative-pc-operating-...</a>