do you use Windows 10 preview build as main OS or in a VM?

[ultimate99]

I'm just curious if you guys use the preview builds as main OS or not, and how it preforms with you on a day-to-day basis.

[Dot Matrix]

I have it set up on an old laptop, so yes, I try to use it as a main system when I can.

[BeerFan]

Depends on the build, really.  There have been a couple that BDOD'd way too often. Others, like current 14316, run like a champ with hardly any notable issues.

[Max Norris]

As my primary, absolutely not, my work relies on a stable system, and a preview/beta by its nature isn't going to be 100% stable.  I definitely mess with them on test systems, currently nerding out over the Bash/Linux stuff that was added, think I may lose a couple VMs once that's officially released... but I'll wait. If I was a "casual user" that just surfed the web and played games and such, I'd probably be much more likely to give it a spin as my primary OS, but I need 100% reliability. 

[+Fahim S. MVC]

Sort of... I have a several machines.  One is running Preview as its main OS (none of the others are).  Spend a fair amount of time on that box.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

VM  .... just to try out the new features ... see if there are any bugs ... give feedback ... etc.  Not as main OS on any setup though.  

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

It is my only OS at the moment.

[DConnell Member]

I use Win10 on a media center PC . . . which is used most often to update Windows 10. My main systems both still run 8.1, and probably will for the immediate future.

[helpifIcan]

Only use in a VM for testing purposes. Day to day PC on win 10.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

 

I have it on several computers running natively, and in VMs hosted on others.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

 

[PGHammer]

Main OS on my desktop, sole OS on my two notebooks.  In fact, I just added a third notebook as a testbed (at the owner's request - replacing a borked Vista completely); the shocker is that it supports Windows Hello AND is older than Big Pavilion - my oldest notebook prior to this one.  How did that happen?  Simple - it supports a fingerprint reader - the earliest form of biometrics to make it to computers; in fact, it was quite common in enterprise portables in the XP era (Intel's own Centrino and successor vPro technologies and their AMD equivalents) - this notebook is driven by a first-generation AMD Turion64 x2 mobile processor and AMD Radeon Xpress mobile graphics - therefore, older than Big Pavilion.  It runs nothing more complex than Excel and other non-Access Microsoft Office software; therefore, despite the mere gigabyte of system RAM (no fainting), 14332 (x64) doesn't run even remotely like a pig.  I'm going to keep my eyes open for more of these anything-but-mere enterprise retreads (along with fingerprint readers that plug into USB ports); locking down computers is going to be easier and easier.

[norseman]

I use the Insider builds on my main work and home computers as well as our two tablets.

I'm also testing 2016 TP on VMWare.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

It is my main OS.

[MDboyz]

Yes, It is my main OS.  I do works and play games on it without any problems.

[PGHammer]

Same here; because of Hyper-V, I do things that I couldn't before (Baby Pavilion supported Hyper-V directly; that pleasant surprise spurred the desktop rebuild in the same direction).

[Gotenks98]

Yes but my main complaint is whenever a new build happens. The way the downloader is set it pretty much sucks all available bandwidth into downloading the next build. If there was a way to say only download the build say at 2am I would not have any issues.

[Jack W]

Yes, I use the fast ring builds as my main OS on my work laptop, home desktop and home laptop. As well as my phone.

[+jamwheat Subscriber²]

I use Windows 10 Insider Preview (fast ring) as my main, and Windows 10 Final as a Secondary on the same rig.  Each installed on its own HDD.

[PGHammer]

2 minutes ago, Gotenks98 said:

Yes but my main complaint is whenever a new build happens. The way the downloader is set it pretty much sucks all available bandwidth into downloading the next build. If there was a way to say only download the build say at 2am I would not have any issues.

Actually, there is (for all updates - not just new builds) in Advanced Options, you can set update checks for specific times of day; it is literally an advanced form of scheduling you could do as far back as Windows NT - you can schedule tasks for spefic times of day.

 

[Gotenks98]

3 hours ago, PGHammer said:

Actually, there is (for all updates - not just new builds) in Advanced Options, you can set update checks for specific times of day; it is literally an advanced form of scheduling you could do as far back as Windows NT - you can schedule tasks for spefic times of day.

 

I thought that setting was for the time that you as the user use the computer. Now it makes sense.