Big mistake made when I went from Windows 7 to Windows 10……….never again, you have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what the geeks were thinking.
I bought a cheap HP Win-10 laptop a few years ago—just to do tax returns, as a Win-10 machine was required by the updated annual software packages. And tax prep is all I use it for.
For all my day-to-day usage, I continue to use my old Win-7 and Linux desktops. On or off the web. So far, they work perfectly well for any tasks I want to do, on or off the web. No problems. As far as I am concerned, I will only give up my Win-7 desktop if Mr. Gates pries it from my cold dead hands.