> Running 10 feels like I've lost control over my own OS. It updates when it wants and I have no way of turning it off.
That one part is only partly correct. Windows 10 already contains the APIs required to have completely fine-grained control when to download updates, when to install updates, and even which ones to install now and which ones to leave on the list.
The difference is that with earlier OSes MS did make this choice easily accessible to every user of Windows regardless of their level of expertise. This resulted in massive security issues that hurt the internet at large.
Windows 10 still contains all the controls, but it has stopped providing easy and obvious GUIs for it and instead expects you to use administrator-level interfaces to talk to those systems if you desire so, thus effectively gating them behind a learning process.
That one part is only partly correct. Windows 10 already contains the APIs required to have completely fine-grained control when to download updates, when to install updates, and even which ones to install now and which ones to leave on the list.
The difference is that with earlier OSes MS did make this choice easily accessible to every user of Windows regardless of their level of expertise. This resulted in massive security issues that hurt the internet at large.
Windows 10 still contains all the controls, but it has stopped providing easy and obvious GUIs for it and instead expects you to use administrator-level interfaces to talk to those systems if you desire so, thus effectively gating them behind a learning process.