Close to 2 months, I used Windows 10 boot drive. Stability; good. Updates; too many, too annoying. Updates have a horrible habit of overwriting/removing anything you might have done.
Nannyware/nagware; I so wish Microsoft would understand that people want to control their OS and computers, not have Microsoft do it for them.
Customizations are more than just a wee bit difficult to do (some impossible), and I can't say how much I dislike..no, loathe that desktop tile layout. It is sloppy. I installed StartMenuX and got it back to a configurable, cleaner layout.
Biggest Bugbear for me (and for my husband, too) was not only the total removal of Windows Media Center, but making it so you couldn't even install it even if you had the ability to do so.
I am currently back on my Windows 7 Boot drive. It took a while to get all the programs and Windows updated after such a long time of not using it. After that was finished, I can't say how much better Windows 7 is from Windows 10.
It's not just using legacy software that can no longer be installed due to software maker using different authentication service, or legacy hardware (the hardware works in Win 10, but the software for it doesn't. Go figure.
But I find Windows 7 also stable, the updates have only broken one software makers programs (Yes, I really liked ArcSoft MediaCenter. It was better than anything else that has so far followed, but they rather stupidly didn't pay Dolby licensing fees so no updates after v6x, and Microsoft closed off the program's ability to use the kernel for better performance, thereby it no longer would work).
It's not even the desktop layout, because by use of StartMenuX, both Win 7 and Win 10 look the same.
Overall, I find Windows 7 the winner over Windows 10. So, as long as I can install software on Windows 7 boot drive, I will. I know that sooner or later I will be forced to move over to Win 10 only as software makers will be painted into a corner of "Make it work with only our latest OS".
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