Yeah, I guess you're right. I'm running production Windows 10 on 5 currently-active desktops, The Windows 10 Insider Preview on a 6th, 8.1 on one laptop, XP on a netbook and a second laptop that also dual boots to ubuntu.
It's XP Professional that lives on a semi-retired machine on which I record music with up to 8 simultaneous audio input channels. That machine was also used with professional video editing and DVD authoring software that created 3 commercially-available DVD, all of them dual-layer projects, one of which was a 4-disc set.
Until you came along, I had no idea of how stupid I was to have to fall for Microsoft's Windows 10 hype. Thanks for setting us straight. Maybe I can dig up those old Windows 3.1 install disks...
the reason i didn’t register was because i didn’t know enough about the phone home crap on windows 10- I suppose i could have registered it and gone to a dual boot scenario and just not allowed it to have access to Internet while allowing linux the only Internet access— but it’s all water under the bridge now-