I guess it depends on what you want to spend your time and emotional energy on. I use Win10 as it is "out of the box", and apply all automatic updates. If MS wa

I guess it depends on what you want to spend your time and emotional energy on. I use Win10 as it is "out of the box", and apply all automatic updates. If MS wants my telemetry or whatever, that's okay by me. If I'm in Firefox or running multiple VsCode/VStudio/IntelliJ/etc instances or running bash scripts or whatever, I can't see how it would offend so much - but I guess that's just me - but I'm not even trying to make Windows look like Linux or use it like it as one. As for the UI, all I really do is hit the Win key and type a few chars and hit enter and run what I want - no desktop icons, no theming, etc., and I Alt-Tab between full-screen apps or Ctl-Alt-Arrow between desktops -- that's about it. Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't find anything especially that gets in the way. Edit: Okay, I probably turned off indexing and the Cortana mic. access (was that enabled by default?), but that's about it. And I had to disable some Dell-specific bits from my son's laptop that limited network bandwidth for all non-video packets. WTF? I achieved a huge about of peace when I went from HD to SSD -- in addition to the speed, once I couldn't see the drive light or hear the disk being accessed when I wasn't doing anything, I found it wasn't really getting in the way.