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I totally agree, but you miss the point of why I want to avoid Win10. It has nothing to do with a lack of power / shutdown before completing initialization. It has everything to do with a very long history I have with Micro$oft and how they choose to do business, some practices of which I have described in these posts.
Here's one example: How long did it take me to go from first press of power switch on a brand new system to get to where I could interact with it? It took FAR longer than other operating systems, including Windows 7.
I just find Windoze does not stack up to other operating systems, primarily unix variants. It is less efficient on resources, performs more poorly and is less reliable by design, primarily due to the registry. All op systems have their drawbacks, I just find those in Windoze harder to deal with, not to mention the philosophical issues I have with proprietary software --- woops, I just did