These baffling updates are exactly the reason I dropped Windows like a hot potato over 2 years ago. I am a pretty serious hobbyist musician and used hugh-end DA

These baffling updates are exactly the reason I dropped Windows like a hot potato over 2 years ago. I am a pretty serious hobbyist musician and used hugh-end DAWs for years on anything frim Win 98 to 7. As soon as 10 rolled around, constant unexpected forced updates would severely impede my workflow. I do indeed understand the need to update, but ok call me a control freak ...but I need to be in charge when and yes, IF that happens. Updating am OS could break a carefully configured machine that took lots of time and money to accomplish. I gave up snd tried Linux but quickly found that it’s useless for serious music production. I moved to Mac and it’s great except that you’re locked into a pricey walled garden, which is a price I’m willing to pay for stability and control. On a related note, I know professional producers (and I am friends with one of them) that maintain very old OS X systems for this very reason - these highly integrated systems can cost upwards of $15-20k and absolutely cannot be updated for fear of breaking something. They usually don’t have internet connections, so they’re not vulnerable to external threats anyway.