http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html
It's a small program (available with installer, or as stand-alone executable) to wipe out all of the Windows 10 "nag-ware"...
Was just going to post this for the MS haters. In fact here is a good article about it from MS sorta fanboy Paul Thurrott.
Now as far as Linux goes I tried Ubuntu a couple of years ago. Put it on an XP machine and made it dual boot. First problem I had was most of the programs that I use didn’t work on Linux. Oh some >might< work if I went in and fiddled with the code but I tired of that decades ago.
But the icing on the cake for me was that after several months when I booted to Ubuntu a message appeared telling me that the Version was out of date, no longer supported and I should update to the latest version.
Good bye Ubuntu. Of course because it was a dual boot machine I really couldn’t easily kill it. It was in the MBR.
As I have said many times before Windows 10 works GREAT for me as well as mrs p6 who is NOT a computer wiz. She took to 8, 8.1 and 10 like a duck to water. No problems on her HP Pavilion laptop. She loves it.
Works great for me too. Linux, Apple OS, Android ...NOTHING runs my weather station software (Cumulus) but MS. In fact I can find NO similar personal weather station software on any other OS.
If someone knows of one I’d be interested to look at it.