No GWX by choice, should I install it?

On my Windows 8.1 laptop I have avoided all the GWX updates pushed over the last year. I have hidden the KBs as they were offered and reoffered. I have no GWX icon or any other prompt to get Windows 10.

Now is the time for me to install Win 10 on this laptop. I think the major thing I am missing by not having GWX is the compatibility checker. While the laptop is only a few years old (originally Win 8 upgraded to 8.1) and I am confident it is able to run Win 10 I wonder if I should make sure? AFAICT I would have to have the GWX tool to run the compatibility checker. I have found ways to manually run the checker but I believe I still would need the GWX tool for it to work. Or should I just go ahead and upgrade without first getting the GWX? I am thinking this is probably not the best idea.

Hopefully I have made sense in what I am asking and am interested in hearing your thoughts.

I agree with Superfly. That's what I would do.

OK I will skip GWX. Thanks to you both for the advice.

I hate to start going in a different direction but in creating a system image I was thinking of using Macrium. One potential problem is that this laptop does not have a disk drive and from my cursory look at the program it creates a recovery CD that is used to restore the saved image. Or am I wrong? I will do some additional reading but maybe someone could let me know if I am right or wrong in my thinking that I wouldn't be able to use Macrium in my situation. Perhaps I should just use the built in Windows System Image tool with an external HDD. This laptop is bare bones and I have already backed up the few files I keep on it to a thumb drive so the system image will be pretty small.