Oh, I agree about the actual operating system itself, it is all the choices MS has made in regards to updates, privacy, and general shenanigans* that is making me more than a little hesitant to migrate.

*shenanigans mostly meaning every time there is an update means going back through and checking all of your privacy settings which have probably been reset to the way MS wants you to have them. Of course that may not matter as who knows if MS is actually honoring those settings or just sending your data to them regardless.

I don't worry about the data being sent....provided it does not facilitate targeted advertising.

The scenario once mooted that you could be having a conversation about a death of your child [or similar] only to have some fucking advertising for Undertakers R US dot Com.

The concept of forced updating so everyone is on the 'same' system is sound in an OS management sense...but not in a real-world sense.

The ONLY way cock-ups can be averted is if there were a STRICT automatic compensation/penalty clause set so Microsoft was required to pay 'someone' dearly every time they get it wrong....with no avenue for appeal.

Perhaps something like 100 million to the poor/starving/cure for cancer...whatever.

Something BIG enough to actually make them think twice before releasing a less than perfectly tested update.

But hey.....you didn't pay for 10 so how can you complain?

Yeah, riiiight...