Windows 10 Technical Preview users, what do you think of it?

I'm on build 10130 and I've had very few issues. I installed 10 on another partition, so I'm dual booting. The only major problem is that any of the builds won't play dvds. I hear it's possible that the final release may not play dvds also. You will need a third party player to use. Besides that I like the new start menu, the new Edge browser is very fast. I like 10 a whole lot better than 8 and I only beta tested 8.
Greg

I want to like Win 10. Really. I applaud MS for continuing to develop GUIs while OSX is still an XP generation construction. Sadly, as Apple has proved, the GUI is irrelevant: most users go to a web page and few installed apps, employers increasingly lock down the desktop to a selection of mostly web/network based apps. In my hands I still see serious technical problems that I hope MS can fix by the end of July. Win 10 is hard to install/upgrade (serious issues for dual booting), makes arbitrary changes to the UEFI at install and at random boots, Cortina does not work, Edge/Spartan is not compatible with many common web site functions and crashes, boot up is much slower than Win 8, many built in Apps are not ready or do not work (e.g. One Note refuses to open today in this build), there are others. I hope they can fix it. To avoid what could be another Vista moment MS should be very sure this thing is ready for primetime, but I feel like the kid who saw the Emperor in his new clothes--my experience with Win 10 in no way jibes with what I read about it on-line.

During the beta, if people asked me whether some build of Windows 10 was good enough, or reliable enough, to install on their daily-use PCs, I’d say that just asking that question suggests you’re perhaps not technical enough to do so. But with Windows 10 shipping in non-preview form on July 29 for the first time, the calculation changes. We can and should assume that a fully supported new Windows version will generally be good enough for even novice users.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/4026/should-you-upgrade-to-windows-10

The Spartan Browser proved useless for me. Can't save your tabs to the home page.... The tab bar disappears. useless.

Internet Explorer is there, but hard to find in the beginning.
Other browsers and Apache Open Office installed ok.

I had to add a battery monitor to the task bar myself, via an app.

Had to get Gadgets on my own via the Web. Lots of nice Gadgets at 8gadgetpack.net

Didn't find an antivirus program in Win 10, so I installed Avast free antivirus from the Web. It is a system hog by default, turn off most of the options, and it's useable.

Have a HP 3600n Color Laserjet Printer. Tried to connect via the Network with a Host Name. During Install, it never got past "creating a port." I chatted with Windows Support, they took over the Laptop and tried to get updates from HP and get it to install. That didn't work either.

So I have a decent computer that takes about 2 minutes plus to boot up, and doesn't print. It does work well on the Internet. System has 8gb ram, decent PC. This is with a 7200rpm drive. Win 7 booted on this Laptop in 27 seconds, but that was with a SSD drive.

This Laptop performed better all around on Windows 7 last week.

It did have several slow periods after the Win 10 install, where the CPU guage/gadget stayed on 100% until I restarted the Laptop. It was un-useable until after the restart when that occurred. It seems to be over that now.

Bottom Line, after Win 10 officially comes out next month, even if it will print, I am undecided. I may keep Win7, or maybe move onto Win 10.

Thus far Win 7 is stable, prints, and everything is smooth. I can't say any of these things for Windows 10 as of yet. Best of Luck to You with it....

I tried Windows 10 on one of my computers and I finally gave up just before 10121. Microsoft, in a desperate and failing attempt, try to make us believe that this newest version of Windows is an absolutely necessity and that if we do not use it we may as well throw our computers out in the yard. Microsoft, we can do very nicely without Windows 10. Windows 7 works just fine. Windows 8 is an abject failure not unlike Windows Millennium and others. I feel like we are not unlike rats being induced to run through a maze. I am completely done running the maze.

I've got an older Win7 laptop running the fast ring code (native, not VM). I haven't tried pushing it to use for heavy productivity work (yet) but for the tire kicking stuff I've tried it seems to work fairly well for a preview.

Early on I had one build that got stuck in Windows Update and so could no longer update to newer versions. I reinstalled from ISO and updated to the next version and that problem went away. The new browser is still somewhat shaky, with hangs and slowness.

I've been using it since February. The first few updates took forever, but since that time everything has been running smooth.

I've been using Windows 10 since the Windows Insiders program was introduced... at first I had it on a separate partition and didn't use it too much for day to day stuff. But with Build 10130, I felt that Microsoft had finally reached a leveling off place with the OS and installed it as my main build on my main computer. I've been using it now for about a week full-time, and the only real frustration I'm having with it are some extended slow-downs, especially with Taskbar Jumplists and opening File Explorer or Save, Save As, or Browse windows. However, I have solved several of these annoyances through online forums. The slowdown problem for instance, is now virtually fixed since I got rid of the old "most visited places" and "destinations" that were ported over from 8.1. I suspect there will be more ghosts like these to clean up—but as someone else pointed out in these comments: This is what beta software is all about. I for one, am enjoying Windows 10 a lot and on a scale of 1 to 10 I give Build 10130 a 7.

After trying to load Win 10 beta into my computer and failing, I resorted to installing VMware. Now I adjusted my Win 8.1 to have a start window. I now can work 8.1 like Win 7. The best part is that the VMware now runs ALL my software, even my Basic programs from 1980. I hope the new Win 10 is half as good.

Don't know the build, but I downloaded it about two weeks ago - dual boot with 7 Pro. It's a mess. The Start menu is like a teenager's bedroom, bits everywhere, with big, unfillable gaps down the left side (7), and unlined-up tiles down the right (. The whole thing seems to be just 7 overlaid with 8. And why Settings AND Control Panel. We don't need things in two places. This has got to be just to make things familiar to mobile phone and tablet users; let them get used to Control Panel. Apart from that, I found nothing new or interesting. And it's slow.
Certainly not going to ready for this summer without using whips on Microsoft employees.

I have been running Windows 10 since the beginning on a 7 year old Dell laptop with a SSD.
The first couple of builds had problems with memory errors. After that, it has run pretty well on such old equipment. The questions popping up every so often are not that bad. (It is still in Preview) I just wait until I'm done whit what I was working on and then answer them.
Don't really like the new menu, but the one from Windows 7 is the one everyone seems to want.
Not bad over all.

Using Windows 10 is frustrating. I could not open my Windows 7 files. Worst of all I found that after a year I will have to rent the software by the month.