[adorno]

Actually, I find Windows 10 to be “almost” exactly like Windows 7, but more secure and with a few more features and, actually, faster.

I don’t even use the “metro” UI, and the desktop looks exactly like what Windows 7 used to be like.

So, no complaints from me, and I don’t miss Win7 at all.

[dayglored]

Hi adorno. I do know what you're saying -- my own Win10 production desktop looks a lot like my Win7 production desktop, which in turn looks a lot like Win2K. Okay, I'm a Luddite about simple desktops.

The thing is, I'm a Sysadmin who spends some of my time helping my company's engineers build and test our software products, which have to run on stock Windows 10. So I have to deal with the stock Windows 10 UI a lot.

Likewise our servers are migrating towards 2016. I'm still a fan of 2008... I can live with 2012 with Classic Shell...

So I hear ya. In fact, most of the technical, working guys I know who like Win10 tell me they ditched the stock UI on Day One, just like you and I did. That should tell us something.