Several of the choices MS made with Win10 make it a no-go for me. My current plan is to stick with Win7 until extended support ends in 2020, and in the meantime explore some other options (such as a couple flavors of Linux).

Yes.

Should you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask.

I would upgrade if

a) the cloud/spying stuff can be reliably disabled. They might do it themselves for European versions, once the officials get their lazy off their lazy asses and actually look how MS is violating European law. With the current EULA, no company working with customer data can legally use Windows 10 as their OS...
b) the horrid "flat" UI is gone, or can be changed. For me the Win7 look was the pinnacle of MS's UI Design, but even a Win2k-look would be better than "modern UI".

No, never. It is cross platform OS, so there are going to be serious security issues. Main problem of mine too, is the fact that DRMed games of previous generations (retail versions and of those i own a lot) CANNOT run in windows 10, due to the limitations microsoft integrated in them (forget games having Securom, Safedisc and some other forms of DRM sh*t). And guess what, most "good old" games, of that era 2000-2008 had mostly those systems that Win10 forbid to run...

Since Windows 7 can be supported until 2020 and they work quite well (even better than 8, actually, as many people claim), plus they have 64 bit and run next gen stuff just fine, there is no faqing reason of a chance in hell, at least for me, to touch them. DON'T FIX WHATEVER ISN'T BROKEN! Or else you run the risk of it breaking ENTIRELY!

Damn, i am not even getting them as free, i am not even reserving my free copy! Gift or not, i inspect very carefully whatever i take in (or not). Trojan horse is never funny, not millenia ago, not today, in whatever form or possible shape it might appear, that is...

Nope, never ever.

1 year ago I switched to Linux (Mint) and it has been my only OS ever since. Linux has grown a lot since the first time I tried it (more than 8 years ago) and in terms of user friendliness I consider it comparable to a Mac - Windows still remains the most user friendly OS.

I work in a PC repairs workshop and every Win 8 / 10 laptop that comes in is very slow, hell some of them are even new packing an i3 or i5 processor.

Unless you have a specific program (for your job or anything very important) I would avoid Windows 10, and if you're running Windows 7 stick with it until you feel forced to upgrade / switch.

As KingBradley said - Don't fix what isn't broken.

I have tested out Windows 10 and that was more than enough for me.
I'm now running win7 and Mint in dual boot on all of my machines, and after 2020 it is Linux only.
I don't think of this as a problem, since more and more games and programs come with native Linux support, and that Linux is made better all the time. Much is going to happen in a time-span of 4 years.

-After all the problems with:

- Telemetry added to Win7 and 8.x without the consent of the end user.
- Build in telemetry and attestation in Windows 10.
- Horrible UI theme which can't be changed
- Aggressively advertising for users to upgrade to 10,
- GWX downloading Windows 10 install files without the consent of the end user,
- Forced updates,
- Advertising inside the OS.
- Automatically uninstalling programs installed by the end user,
- The rumors about ms and Intel making it harder to support win7 with Skylake systems doesn't help either.

And god knows what other spyhole madness they don't want us to know of, I would rather trust a used car salesman or a snake oil reseller than ms and Windows 10.

I've already made the jump since long ago, and the train's (the non-hatetrain) is getting better. Though I've had some issue, it was minor and I fixed it with a user change. Apparently me cluttering the system as usual to the point of slowing the boot, but that was fixed by a reset. Anyways...

*That telemetry everyone's nagging about? Not a problem. As has been stated multiples of times, it's just sending anonymized crash log data and what not, and that can be controlled. You can take a look here for all of the hard details; http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-telemetry-secrets/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61
*Only a few apps actually complain about compatibility. Some of course are lost, but that's natural with each version of Windows. Even Dust: An Elysian Tail which is supposed to be incompatible with Windows 10 at least as reported on GOG, I actually played the game and beat it with almost all of the extra stuff if not all. Your mileage may vary, if especially you rely on a legacy app or you often play a legacy game that'd it be a deal breaker, but for me, it hasn't, and it only hurt me on the subject of being able to install and play FF8 the old disc version.
*The UI has been going up and never down. This time, you can use either a Start Menu or a Start Screen, all with a really modern interface that is less about pixelated curves and more about actually looking great on PCs. I refuse to go back to the Start Menu at this point.
*Advertising inside the OS? Bullshit. If it were advertising, you would have never been able to disable it. Behold what I just said. You can disable those app suggestions, which by the way, can be accessed with just a mere toggle in the settings. That's all it needs if suggestions about which apps to obtain aren't your cup of water.

As for games with SecuROM, that is a bit of muddy water at the moment for some reason. I can report being able to play Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust, and with SecuROM DRM ON WINDOWS 10.

Up until now, I haven't seen really legit points to not consider Windows 10, apart from:
*Automatic updates
*GWX, which by the way, is not related to Windows 10 itself (besides acting as the downloader for it), so counting it in as a Windows 10 disadvantage is sort of misleading. Call it a Windows 7 or 8.1 disadvantage.

If you're still hesistant on whether to upgrade or not, ask me whatever you want. My Windows 10 system is right within hand's reach for me.

You mean like Like Linux, OsX, FreeBSD.... well all the modern OSes are also cross-platform nowadays :-)

No, what is "blocked" is the "drivers" part of those DRMs; what Windows 10 do is preventing you from installing some outdated drivers which might render you computer unstable or causes all sort of issues; that's actually a good thing. Concerning "good old games", we it's a problem with those DRMs, not Windows, if you remove/disable the DRM, like the game sold on GoG, then they will most likely work fine.

Well didn't you just said that you are installing games with Securom, Safedisks and some other form of DRM....

Just got uncles pc and before i got it it was on service,i know it only had win xp on but now it has win 10 on and i don't know what to think of it.
Especially on this system
AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core processor 4400+ 2.30ghz
ram 4gb
nvidia 9600 gt
Anything i need to set to off now and how do i make the front usb work they don't react at all.

CRACKED. ALWAYS. I use the disc only for install.

I plan on building a new gaming rig in the next few months and will give it the free upgrade then. If the offer wasn't limited, I would stay with 7 for a while longer, though.

My experience with front USB ports, is that it's usually manually wired from the motherboard using a combination of 4-5 pins. Getting layout information for the USB and the color coded examples you can usually rewire it yourself.

Might upgrade at some point while it's free, just to try it out, then roll it on back to 8.1 (as I understand it allows you to do for a period after upgrade). On the other hand, I might just skip it until I get another computer (which will hopefully be at least a couple more years from now). We'll see.

No.

No. I dont like the direction microsoft is going - I was happy to pay them god amount of money for new shiny OS, but they offered only free trojan with all this spying/ads disaster.
Will keep using win7 till it dies...