Windows 10, is it better than the rest?

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I've only just seen this thread, and based on my experience over the last year I have to add the following:

1) Unless you have NO available internet connection, Win10 WILL try and update itself (in my case 12.5GB of updates in the first 4 months*), even if you turn all the various update options off - it just turns them back on again when it feels like it. I have spent hours talking to the jobsworths at Microsoft support (who to be fair do try to be helpful) and nothing they have come up with is a permanent fix.
2) Some of these updates WILL cause problems with existing hardware - I had one take out the supervisor app. for my MBB dongle which is the only means I have to connect to t'internet in the workshop.
3) It seems to have quirks/flakiness just like previous versions, only they're different.
4) As for it being faster than previous versions, all I can say is that running comparable operations on the little laptop I have it on, it is noticeably slower than the old XP machine I have at home which has a processor that benchmarks 3.5x slower.

As soon as I get some free time I'm learning Linux

*who releases code that's so bad it needs that many updates