Honestly considered it too... so far just win 8.

But with a console I could live without playing newer pc games.

The thought would have been unimaginable to me before windows 10.

Howfully steam keeps getting support, and vulkan takes off.

I don't get why people hate on Windows 10 I like it a lot more than I did Windows 7 and considering they gave it away for free, I especially don't get the hate. The only thing I'm concerned about is if they are ever gonna flip some sort of always online switch or something once everybody is in the win10 ecosystem. Never had any technical problems though

Haven't had any issues yet as all my laptop is used for is streaming music or video processing but I'm rather annoyed that updates are forced on W10. Sucks that for all the "options" PC offers, Windows is really the only choice unless you want an overpriced Apple MacBook.

People hate it because updates are literally forced on you now. No way to indefinitely decline major updates. Another gripe I personally have is all the data tracking the OS does on you in order to try and "personalize" your experience. I had to toggle what feels like 70 different privacy switches in the system settings the moment I picked up my W10 laptop from Best Buy.

And this all goes without mentioning the lack of stability many people report when it comes to apps not working. I can't see any pros it has over W7 honestly which was the perfect OS for its time.

I know, but this was still supposed to help (and I'm sure it does, just obviously not enough).

Gah, W10 is a pain in my behind.

When I first accidentally let the creators update through it borked the start menu so it was only navigable by keyboard (and given W10 designers mysteriously removed simple functionality like using arrow keys to move left & right this is far more annoying than if it happened with W7)
I looked up a fix but decided it wasn't worth messing about too much and instead put more of my primary programs on the task bar, so no biggie.

The next time it updated it then fixed the start menu so I thought fine, that's good.... then about 2 weeks ago another update broke it again, it's daft.

I have had other issues since the beginning which cause "driver state power failure" which seems to be related somehow to W10 interacting with Nvidia, and possibly something with DirectX as if I start Civ5 in DX10/11 mode it is guaranteed to crash at some point, even if I set Civ5 to use the integrated graphics. DX9 doesn't seem to cause the problem much.

I have had more crashes with W10 than I did with XP. Whereas I have had 2 laptops with W7 and think I could count the crashes between them on 1 hand, both of them still work fine except (or perhaps because) they don't update. And one has a battery charging issue but that is nothing to do with the OS.

I actually lke the design and the look, I just want them to fuck off tracking everything I do, fuck off forcing me to update the whole OS every couple of months & fuck off taking out perfectly good functionality for no reason and replacing it with nothing.

That´s the point: inconsitancy. Once person might have no problems, the other might have a truckload. When your OS turns into the wheel of misfortune, you´ve done something horribly wrong.

I'm pretty sure the trial version of Ease US is one of the few that could even SEE my external.  All the free utilities I tried couldn't find it.  The trial version let me rescue some small files for free so at least I know it works.  

A lot of the archive is from when I had my old PC with a small HDD so I don't have any backup.

Probably going to buy Ease US soon, just haven't gotten around to it.

After the update when I turn on my PC I'm left with a black screen and windows 10 is starting up. Does anyone know a fix for this?

If Apple actually tried really hard in the gaming industry, it would be a better choice for a gaming OS, same goes for Linux, same goes for Steam and their Steam OS (another variant of Linux). MS has tried over the years and while 10 isn't perfect, 7 still exists and still works fine for gaming on PC. The competition just eneds to step up and try harder, not having MS be abolished for the competition to do something that they should be doing to keep up with MS in the first place.

You still have a choice for the OS you want.