I'm seriously considering going back to 7 after reading all of this. The only reason I did jump onto 10 wagon is the DX12 compatibility, but I'm not playing any DX12 games anyway. I find almost all of the newer DX12 games (last 5 years at least) utterly boring.
Nostalgia got me real close to that decision, and for many good reasons. I've used XP as long as its related software provided support for my hardware, and moved to 7 only when DX11 was a must.
I've kinda used to tweaking each of those mentioned OS iterations, tweak the hell out of them, but this newer 10 21H2 version give me so much anxiety, and it's just taking so much damn time to make it behave like I want and need to. Time that i really shouldn't waste on that kind of stuff anymore (I'm 39), so I was literally considered moving to one of the Linux distros as a daily driver. And I have even less time for that kind of journey. Not with a full time job. Not right now, although I'm really sick of Windows so much I can't even describe my feelings properly without cursing.
So I would like to thank the OP for this thread, even though the title itself is kinda provocative and rebellious more than it should be.
I would also like to thank all of the people bashing the OP and others that supported him, filling the thread with utter nonsense, out of topic stuff and not providing any meaningful facts while doing so. You just made me want my Win 7 experience back even more than ever before. Security updates? Give me a break. I am the security of my damn machine. I'm the owner, and I don't need MS to tell me what I can and can't do with my property, while tying me with a zip ties to the chair in my own house. Also, I'm sick of wasting time on failed nLite modifications of the 10's ISO as well. I might continue trying, but just in case one day a worthy DX12 game I want to play come out, just to have it ready and stripped off all things but the gaming essentials. And only as a 2nd boot option, thank you very much. Good night.
