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I’ll make a decision between 10 and Linux when I have to get a new machine eventually. Until then, I’ll avoid the Win10 problems.

Please be careful when you dive into Linux. I've been able to dual boot a Win 7 machine and a not current hardware Win 10 machine with Linux Mint. But two weeks ago I bought a modestly current hardware PC with Win 10 on in, and I cannot get Linux Mint to load on it. I can get the GRUB boot screen to come up, but when I select to load Mint, I get the dreaded black screen after that. It's probably a driver problem, but if you can't get the stock .iso file to load, you can't get at the later kernels to see if they support your hardware. It's an annoying problem, and I can't seem to find decent help on any forums yet to get around the problem. I love Linux Mint... no bullcrap Microsoft to deal with, but I just can't get it to load on this new machine.

Have you tried some of the other flavors of Linux?

I played with Linux about 8 years ago, but I haven’t had the opportunity lately. I was going to play with Mint on my laptop - even partitioned the hard drive to make a place for it, but had trouble burning the ISO with the Win10 machine and never got back to the project. (Yes, the plan now is to burn the DVD on my Win7 and then carry it over to my laptop - very 1990s networking - but I haven’t had time to play with things lately.)

Just use WIN 8.1 instead, it's not quite as fast? as Win 10 but it doesn't have the auto updates "yet?". I run it using "Classic Shell" which for the most part runs like Win 7. I just wish that I could get rid of all the Windows Store junk.

The real reason Microsoft is killing off all the old software is to force people to use all the Windows Store apps instead and make Windows a single source (Microsoft) machine so they could control everything on it.

I also use Spybot Anti-Beacon to kill off as much of the spyware as possible.

[[but I just can’t get it to load on this new machine. ]]

There’s got to be a way to do it- it might be that win 10 is screwing up the boot loader/grub- There is a free tool that will ‘correct’ boot problems - the fact that you can get to the grub menu and no further sounds like it’s simply not seeign the linux operating system

You can try Boot-Repair-Disk here: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Boot-Repair-Disk-99450.shtml

Or another trusted download site-

Also your grub may be corrupted- try reinstalling it

However, since you can get into grub menu- try follwoing option 2 on this site:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-ubuntu-linux-pc-wont-boot/