Some interesting reading...
https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html
It highlights some of the things about it that bothers me most:
"You've got
no real control over crucial features of the OS -
- Windows 10 will have no service packs which means it will always be a work in progress and you are a perpetual beta tester.
- Forced updates you cannot opt out of (and Microsoft have borked quite a lot of them recently so prepare to see your Windows die after installing a new portion of updates - actually Microsoft has already borked one update, read horror stories about KB3081424). In December 2016 Chris Capossela, chief marketing officer at Microsoft, admitted that the company had went too far with the way Windows updates are distributed.
- Safe Mode has become impossible to access unless you've booted into ... the running OS which totally defeats its purpose. Also Safe Mode is hidden behind almost a dozen of steps vs. a single F8 key press on boot in every Windows version from 95 to 7.
- Windows 10 anniversary update makes it very difficult (read impossible for average users) to disable Cortana.
- Windows 10 violates the basic networking principles: it ignores the hosts files, the DNS protocol and firewall rules and sends telemetry data regardless."
You have no control, over crucial features. (Vote: True/Agreed... Windows 7 was the last very easy version of Windows to navigate as a desktop OS, and they revamped all the Windows to the point just enabling the "This PC, etc." "desktop icons is a PITA to find )
Windows 10 has builds such as 1511, 1607, and now the Creator's update. For all intents and purposes these are like brand-new releases of the OS with whatever updates, feature fixes, and Service Packs slip-streamed into it. (Vote: Windows 10... get a clean-build almost annually)
You CAN opt-out or even hide updates, but what you cannot do is pick and choose as granularity as before. The updater really does NOT give you the same level of control of selecting specifically which ones you get... Instead, it just updates. Here is the hide utility:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-windows-10. That said, many users were NOT up-to-date, and they fixed that. (Vote: toss-up)
Safemode becomes impossible... (Vote: Toss-up because the new preboot environment is better - you can even "Reset this PC" with the downside that virtually nobody prepared it. They should really add a way to interrupt the boot process.)
Cannot disable Cortana... (Vote: Toss-up because some folks like it, and you actually can disable it if i you are a power-user via the Local Group Policy Editor under Computer Configureation > Admin Templates > Windows Components > Search > Allow Cortana = Disabled. Either way you can hide the annoying search bar on the start bar.)
Violates Network Principles (Vote: False, I don't know about telemetry data, but it gives you mechanisms to limit this. That said, overall the DNS, Host Files, all just work, and WiFi is a bit more intelligent in picking printers for your network etc.. I hand this one to Windows 10)
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Bottom Line: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 are all just fine with me. I do not like the new ones better... It has gotten to the point I just don't care what version of Windows I run so long as it is stable, reasonably secure, and runs my desired applications. Basically, I do NOT care about the OS but rather care about what I can do with it.
