Look at the Reddit thread on Win10 forced upgrades. I took the time to wade through most of it. The Microsoft apologists are lying — knowingly lying about what happens. Literally hundreds of people are doing everything right and still getting hit with the automatic upgrade, and I’m willing to bet that, for every one that posts on Reddit or some other forum, there are easily a hundred more behind them experiencing the same thing. I’ve seen:
1. Clicking “no” to the upgrade and it upgrades anyway.
2. Turning off automatic updates and rejecting the bad ones, yet it still downloads and upgrades.
3. Numerous upgrades intruding without warning in the middle of very important work.
4. Countless complaints about how Win10 broke stuff, including it’s own rollback function.
5. At least one person was on a cell tether and something in the Windows upgrade prevented them using the software switch to turn off their cellphone, running up a huge bill. They insisted that it literally hijacked their cellphone OS.
6. More than a couple of techies who dual-boot found that Win10 borks the partition table (not the partitions, just the location info stored on the disk). After calling MS and escalating, the phone techs insist it’s not Win10’s fault, but none of the victims have ever experienced it before, after having done this kind of dual-booting since Win98.
Maybe there are some stories that exaggerate, but this whole thing is incredible. Too many of these folks are very tech savvy and still can’t prevent this upgrade. I know I’ve had to watch things like a hawk on a couple of Win7 systems I take care of. I once suggested that this looked like a very sloppy technology, but too may of the complaints signal intentional sabotage. This takes us back to the old days when MS designed Windows to break other OSes on the same machine, and later it was admitted by MS employees.
If you want help switching to Mint, Debian or CentOS, just ask. This stuff has just gone too far.
