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PC hardware upgrade pending but have privacy concerns about Win 10
Hope it's okay to post this in General, I couldn't really see a better area on the forum.
So I have a dilemma - I'm currently running Windows 7 64-bit and love it. I do though want to completely upgrade my ancient PC to something faster, more hard disk capacity, more RAM, new motherboard .... you get the picture.
However, I hate the gross invasion of privacy that appears to be the default in Windows 10, the intermittent advertising would also drive me insane. Newer hardware and CPUs don't appear to support Win 7 either so it won't necessarily be possible to load Win 7 onto a brand new PC.
Then there's Linux - hate it.
MacOS - not a fan.
I know there are programs out there which supposedly disable the highly invasive telemetry, but do any of them actually stop it 100% ?
So either I soldier on with my PC until MS stop their Win 7 security updates in 2020, or .......... well, I have no idea.