That's fair, but imo windows 10 goes a lot farther. To get win10 to be as usuable as 7 you have to: disable ads in multiple places, uninstall Candy Crush that they preinstalled, make regedits to disable bing search in the menu, turn off Cortana (might also need regedits now I can't remember), and mess with notification settings, just to get an OS that isn't spamming you with ads. It might not be a good practice, but I appreciate that in Win 7 you can choose not to update. In win10 if Microsoft thinks you need their creators update that undoes all your configuration settings, you _will_ get the update. It doesn't feel like I own the OS as much as Microsoft generously allowing me to use it for the time being. One day I'll finally switch to Linux