If it was up to me I'd never "upgrade" beyond Windows 7. Same thing with OS X, I'd like to stick with the version I have pretty much indefinitely. Not only OS

If it was up to me I'd never "upgrade" beyond Windows 7. Same thing with OS X, I'd like to stick with the version I have pretty much indefinitely. Not only OSes but most software in general are adding more and more features I don't care about & don't want, while adding onerous, user-hostile patterns that detract from both my freedom and the convenience that I usually expect from the software I use. Frankly, as time goes by I'm finding it harder and harder to keep using Windows/Mac as my primary computing OS because every new update adds things like forced (or extremely-hard-to-avoid) updates, nagware, analytics I don't agree with and is difficult to remove, more-prevalent DRM, UX regressions (IMO) and "change for the sake of change" that provides no measurable or perceivable benefit to the user. I could honestly keep going on and on about this. It's like software companies never heard the idiom "don't fix what isn't broken", and they are interminably obsessed with reinventing the wheel on a biannual basis. Re-reading what I wrote, it's interesting & telling that I started with "if it was up to me", and that's really the problem: it's basically NOT up to me what I run on my computer. Want to play the latest award-winning game that is revolutionary, life-changingly awesome? Hope you have absolute latest [whatever] OS with all the updates and whatever other stuff that is required to run it (anti-cheat spyware is my favorite). Heck, how about stuff required for your business, non-optional software (like Zoom)? You're just forced into it. If this stuff you're forced into has problems like, say, wiping your entire hard drive because of a bug in a forced Windows update?? Too bad I guess? That's what you get for using a computer? There are so many glaring problems with this situation, it boggles my mind that people seem completely fine with it.