Personally have spent more time un-doing MS upgrades than actual hassle free computing.
Aps for your smart phone are just as bad with the auto updates. Programs dont need to update themselves every 24 hours or re-write the kernle to work today vs. yesterday.
Bought a new laptop last week and despise windows 10 and all the bloatware that was installed.
Will be stripping it off and installing Mint in a few days.
Agreed. I stopped auto updating of my Win 7 about a year ago just to keep away from this Win 10 thing and MS data collection. Zero problems. I use McAfee anti virus to keep it bug free.
If it works, don’t fix it.
I upgraded three of my computers to Win 10. Two were Win 7 and one was that POS Win 8. Although I waited to the last minute, all three upgrades went nearly flawlessly and Ive had no problems since. The one problem I did have was losing some exported Garmin Basecamp files on one PC but, fortunately, I had those backed up.
I know I haven't cleared as much as possible and I know Microsoft can silently turn these setting back on (they have so on occasion for earlier adopters). I also know that Microsoft has several concerning things that can't be turned off (at least one port communicates back and forth to Microsoft with unknown encrypted information) and, of course, updates are immediately mandatory upon reboot.
Microsoft screwed over my Windows 7 laptop, but I did manage to keep it from ever installing Windows 10. However, my Windows Updates haven't worked since late June 2016 and I have about tried all the technical fixes.
I simply want to pay Microsoft $100 for a clean update to Windows. Microsoft refuses to do this, because it thinks the Google model where the customer is product to be sold is more valuable. That may be true, but how can anyone be okay with every word, every keystroke, and every mouse click being funneled to the Microsoft Cloud, This can happen with Android to a large extent, but at least people know that's what is happening.
With the video camera also tied in as it is, what is to keep Microsoft from turning it on “to better understand your home environment to enhance your advertisements?” This kind of thing happens with Facebook, whereby a “new” privacy setting becomes available because they found a new way to undo your privacy which they hadn't previously informed us of. Of course, the default is “share everything with everyone” until you log in, find the hidden control, and turn it off.
It is all crazy.
The world awaits a program that, once installed on Windows 10, will block internet traffic that big brother uses to snoop on us. This doesn’t sound like a big job.
If big brother realized that the traffic was being blocked, it might retaliate, but if it did that then there might be grounds for a lawsuit.