Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:43pm
I'm not implying that anyone is misinformed. But if you're someone who understands computer operating systems enough to be able to tweak them to personal requirements, then W10 has removed some of that capability.
To give a simple example, in W7 I've got my start menu organised into folders, containing over 300 items, and sized it such that when I open it, I can see the full folder list. That isn't possible in W10, and to open a program I'd have to scroll down a long list. If the day comes when I have to switch to W10, I'd have to install a third-party program like Classic Shell in order to give me the functionality I want.
As I said earlier, W10 is fine for the majority of users, but not for me.
Like Movington, I'd consider running a Linux distro, probably with the Wine compatibility layer so that I could run Windows programs.
And related to the above, I will whatever happens continue to run Microsoft Office 2007. That does exactly what I want, after I'd tweaked a lot of the settings, whereas I hate later Office versions.