So, who upgraded?
I installed it on three systems so far. The success rate is much lower than I would have liked.
The first system was my work laptop. The upgrade process was a failure, giving me
626769959964688385[/tweet]]an amazingly descriptive account of everything that had gone wrong and granting me the ability to properly troubleshoot the issue. However, I was clearly unable to comprehend its incredibly detailed message and, after dicking around with it for far too long, resorted to reinstalling Windows 8.1 and upgrading from a fresh install.
The second system was my personal laptop. Nothing to really say about this one, everything went through without a hitch. Success!
The third system was my gaming tower. The automated upgrade failed because Windows Update is fucking terrible, and even after I unbroke that it would download the data and hang when it actually tried to install it. I was able to get Windows 10 loaded on this system by manually downloading the upgrade from Microsoft's web site and letting it run.
I could almost expect the first system to fail because it's the most complex one from a software installation perspective (but, frankly, that's no excuse for it to fail the way that it did...it looks like it died while it was trying to build the WinPE image), but there really isn't a whole lot of cruft on my gaming rig at all. Hopefully Windows Update on Windows 10 sucks a bit less than previous versions (though judging from the preview releases that doesn't seem to be the case at all).
Edit: The third system exhibited some major driver issues. While that system might be the simplest one from a software perspective, it's a bit more compex on the hardware side (it's the system with dual GTX 980s). Regardless, I've had Windows install, then kick out the NVIDIA drivers. When I tried to reinstall the NVIDIA driver package it failed, so I tried uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers. Windows apparently didn't like that and continuously reinstalled them, causing a ton of problems in the process.
Yeah, hope you guys never ever have to troubleshoot bad driver installs with Windows 10. It simply refuses to let you control your own computer.
Edit2: Everything seems to work on computer #3 now. Whew. Still keeping my fingers crossed that I don't run into some unexpected "surprises" next time I boot 'er up.
Edit3: So Windows 10 opted to install OEM software onto my laptop without my permission or without even informing me. Whichever dipshit designer at Microsoft decided that was a good idea shouldn't be in that position. If I wanted that shit on my system I would have bloody installed it. And let's face it, most people do not have the technical knowledge or comfort level to install an OS on their own. People who do have that level of expertise
don't want shit that they didn't install randomly appearing on their system. Fuck.