Resolved Is it safe to download 20H2

It has been sitting on my PC probably since last Oct. or Nov. I know that they had problems with it for a while?

 

Had it on all my comps since last year. No Problems.

 

Guess I will bite the bullet and see how it goes.

 

Installed mine in November and have not had any problems.
Added-Just read an article by Susan Bradley in the AskWoody newsletter that recommends installation. She also includes several precautions as well as things to check for any possible negative results.

 

For 99.999% of the users out there, it is totally safe. It installed with no problems on all 5 systems here in early June 2020.

If you feel you are in that .001% bracket, probably should go with Linux.

 

Downloaded it and so far not the first problem with it. I guess most of us are liked by M$ and a few aren't but still use it instead of going to the forbidden fruit of the APPLE.

 

Well, there's always Linux for those who can't stand MS. Except for gaming, I have not found anything Linux won't do. And unless gaming is how one supports their family, I don't see that as a "need".

I certainly would go with Linux before Apple because at least Linux runs on industry standard ATX Form Factor systems. If you go with Apple, you run into proprietary parts - never good, IMO.

 

Since I'm pretty much fully retired now, the experiences I encounter most are from tech news articles I read regularly, forum posts, my own family and household, and the small amount of residual business my little shop still sees from long time friends, customers and clients who still seek my help.

I have also been a computer enthusiasts providing IS/IT support professionally for over 45 years, in this town for 35 years. My point here is I have many friends and colleague/contemporaries who are long time enthusiasts, computer tinkerers, and Windows tweakers with whom I regularly share experiences and consult with. So while more or less retired and only active doing this work for personal pleasure (instead of income) for a couple hours each morning instead of 8 - 12+ hours of work per day, I'm still in the game. And again it is my experience that, by far, most users, including me, have had no problems.

And to clarify, by "no" problems, I mean nothing that a simple reboot didn't clear, or being patient for a few days to let Windows/MS work things out didn't resolve.

But I am not going to pretend I have not seen much more serious problems with WU - for I certainly have. And for sure, for those users, it is most frustrating and aggravating. And since many bring those problems to me, I do feel their pain.

But I have the following two observations that we have noted so many times, that we feel they are more than just one-off exceptions to the rule, or anecdotal.

1. Those most likely to have encountered problems are users who upgraded W7 era hardware to W10.
2. Those users who left W10 defaults as is encountered fewer problems.​

I have gleaned from those two observations that hardware designed for W10 that had W10 installed on it from the start, running with the default settings for Windows Update and Microsoft Defender, gave those users the fewest problems. It also appears that those with the most experience and who have done the most tweaking and dinking with the defaults, are the ones with the most serious problems.

That is, it seems the highly experience old-timers who refuse to hand-over the keys to Microsoft often have the most, and the most severe problems - at least with their older hardware. And for sure, I have considerable Luddite in me too. I have Start 10 to bring back the familiar W7 desktop and start menu on my two main machines because I cannot stand W10's desktop and start menu. And I still enable and populate (with no less than 59 shortcuts!) the Quick Launch toolbar that came out of XP. I also immediately disable Cortana.

Frankly, consider the fact there are over 1 billion W10 systems out there that became 1 billion unique systems within the first few minutes into their very first boot. Users set up their own networking, user accounts, countless combinations of various hardware from 100s or 1000s of different hardware makers, our own security, personalizations, installed software and more. So I am amazed how successful Windows Update is, week after week after week. And I think the developers at MS deserve some credit for that.