[daniel1212]

"Yeah but with windows 7 you weren’t forced to either delay or turn off updates, and you could get,only,the ones you wanted (like if you learned one update messed something up, you could avoid that one till the fixed it). Windows 10,took a lot of individual control away, and now gives you only 2 options, delay for a month, or turn off the updates and become vulnerable."

Actually, Show or Hide Updates Tool will block unwanted Windows Updates in Windows 11/10

Where Windows 10 took much individual control away from XP is that of colors in personalization

[Bob434]

And other areas, like you can’t really control the ‘phone home’ aspects of windows. You can turn each one off individually, but they get turned back on with updates, and efen the ones you do turn on I read aren’t wholly turned off in some cases.

I just got sic, of fighting with windows and how much it took to keep it the way I liked it, and to keep it virus free. I’m not real into operating systems, so I only need basics really, and Linux fits the bill for me- Hassel free (so far anyways- that could change though).