I won't ever upgrade my current laptop, but I know if I buy a new computer it will likely come with it.

I'm town between accepting it and switching to Linux when that time comes; I don't really like the direction Microsoft seems to be taking (and have never been a particular fan of Windows in general, it's always just been the easiest and most convenient option) but I'm not sure I can be bothered with trying to make all the various things I might want to use compatible (or dual booting)..

I suppose I will probably try it and see what it's like (and whether I can modify it to be more how I would like it) and if I really dislike it I would change to Linux.

What's funny is that I'm running a Macbook on Bootcamp, which has Windows 7. Everything that a standard Windows 7 desktop got when it was sold brand new in stores like Best Buy, just slightly less powerful.

Personally I hate Apple because their platforms are bad for playing computer games and everything they sell is far overpriced. On the flip side I'm not much of a fan of Microsoft because their Xbox One console is proving to be a big disappointment (I went PS4 and will stay with it until the next generation), but I've stuck with Microsoft my entire life (since Windows 3.1) and Windows feels like home to me.

Still using the same laptop that I made this account with six years ago, I guess I have a pretty good reason to upgrade. I don't like Microsoft's approach to pushing Windows 10 on their customers, but I will have to upgrade soon if I'm going to be playing anything from the past 1-2 years. To this day I don't know what Linux is.

Windows 8 user here. Games work wonderfully for me, so I don't ever intend on upgrading to a new OS in which some games might be incompatible with on my current laptop. When it's time for me to get a new gaming PC, I'll deal with Windows 10 then, since I'd likely have no choice in the matter.

I was thinking of getting a fully modded Skyrim and the PC version of Witcher 3, both are within the range of 300-400 hours of game play. My laptop is showing real signs of aging as I can't really play anything from 2012 onwards.

Nope, Win 8.1 works just fine and is in a stable state for some time now. Everything works perfectly. Even some games from Win 95/98 that didn't work on my previous pc with XPs installed so don't see a need for win 10. And Linux on my first boot partition will soon get its Directx12 counterpart with Vulcan so im covered with that.

I don't intend to, but I'm pretty sure I will, in a few years, the next time I need a new PC or laptop. At the very least as soon as Microsoft stops support for all the previous systems. ;)

Right now, I'm happy enough with Win 8.1. So far, every switch of OS came with its advantages and disadvantages and it always took some time to get used to. Now that I've become accustomed to Win 8.1 and learned to appreciate its advantages, I just don't feel like putting up with all of this again so soon. I've seen Win 10 on a friend's PC and I've already found several things I'd personally consider a downgrade to Win 8.1, or in any case an annoying change that would ruin what I like about Win 8.1 now. They had the chance to seriously improve tiles, but they just made them annoying in a different way. But that's my general experience with Windows; new versions aren't necessarily an improvement of the old ones, more often they just feel like a change for the sake of change. I can live without that for another few years. :P

That's how I felt when I moved over to Windows 7 several years ago when I was stuck on Windows XP for the longest time. Had to learn the changes and fixes to the previous system. The switch to Windows 3.1 to 95 was by far the biggest I felt. Windows 95 was a disaster though.

It's not really going to be a choice if you want to play future new games and you're going to upgrade your hardware.

For the nonce, I've no reason to upgrade to 10, but I will eventually.

Yes. On my cold tombstone.

Well, I'm not going to get Windows 10, but main reason for that will be pretty much that updates are mandatory. My internet connection isn't very good, so I can't afford to download several amounts of data whenever microsoft feels like it (and I would not be able to postpone updates forever, as that would only increase the amount of data to be downloaded). I actually tried Win10 a bit at an electronics store that allowed it, and the general look and feel isn't that bad -the usual stuff like Files Explorer hasn't changed all that much since Win7 and Cortana isn't available in Greek (at least not yet). I've also heard of the spying Microsoft is said to be doing which is also a deal breaker, but as I said the major deal breaker for me is the lack of control over updates.
I'll be keeping my current Win7 pc, and I'm also looking at linux options (via virtual machines). For the moment, I've settled at Linux Mint Mate to put in a separate pc (I don't feel like risking with dualbooting), as it's the one that resembles more what I'm used to from windows (e.g. it allows taskbar icons from pretty much every software that supports these – e.g. clipboard manager CopyQ – I couldn't get the taskbar icon of that one to show up in Cinammon), but I won't hurry to switch to linux, as I want to feel absolutely comfortable with everything this os involves before making the big jump.

Are, your into Druidic computing then, not sure how compatible Widows are with the Megalithic Mark XIIV, i.e. there is no installation support between uprights.

(Am not mad, just read too much Terry Pratchett: http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Druids)

Disable the updates on your machine, download them from a different machine once in a while, install them on your main. Should you ever decide to upgrade, feel free to ask about how to do those things.

I still use Win7 (and have updates disabled there) so I dont really know much about the update intricacies of Win10. So, some questions: First of all you seem to suggest that updates can indeed be disabled at Win10. I have personally read that there was no option for that (at least in the Home versions) and only other option available was to postpone them. Does having Pro (the other version which I know exists) change anything regarding that? Secondly, I didnt know I could download updates and stuff from a different machine, as, as far as I knew, they dont provide installers or anything. Is such a thing possible, and how would one hypothetically wanting to do that would go about it? (you dont have to include many details just a general outline)

Disabling the update service will disable all updates. That is available on all versions of Win10. Problem with that approach was that when you checked for updates, it would find and install all of them, so one could not choose which updates to install. But disabling the automatic updates has always been possible on all versions of Win10, from December of 2014, if not earlier.

Assume you IT for a company with 500 machines. Do you need to download the updates to each machine separately, or do you download them once to a central location, then update the machines from that location?
WSUS Offline Update is one such tool, and others exist as well. You could probably grab the updates through powershell too, but one would have to find an up-to-date script for that.

You mean what this link shows I assume. If so, that's something I should keep in mind. There's this other thing though MS is going for (Windows as a service) which might make necessary some updates. And I'm not exactly sure what that one means. Anyways...

That's also a nice tool to know about! Anyways, thanks a lot, will keep these both in mind, just in case I remain with Win as my main os...