It's just a matter of some drivers that are missing from W7 because they were not even in dreams when W7 came out. Processor is recognized, missing drivers were for USB (both, 2 and 3), Samsung M.2...

Last time I tried to update my W7, it broke my license and couldn't get it licensed even with new license provided by MS online help over Skype. To be fair circumstances were a bit unusual. Had to...

That's how W10 works, it's take it or leave it. It's like coffee, you just rent it.

Just ordinary VmWare Player free, some insider build a while ago made me reinstall VmWare and never bothered to install Tools again. It's not too important anyway.

There was no victimizing in his first post, what he described is normal and successful update.

Graphics in my Mint-Mate 18.2 is working fine as a standalone but in VM it's impossible to set resolution right to cover whole screen while any windows in VM, even XP is quite adjustable.

Linux is great to run "As it is" just choose right distro and there's tons of them. Mild customizing is within everybody's reach but anything more advanced requires some knowledge specific to Linux...

Like everything else, you take care of it and it will take care of you.
I have only one clean install since W7 and even that is because at first I was updating to W8/8.1. About 1 year ago I did a...

What they are doing ?
Well, mostly "killing" and otherwise disabling/restricting updates which MS (or any other OS developer) wouldn't bother with if not absolutely necessary.
"Killing" telemetry...

It might be a bit of bother for you folks with brand name machines, specially laptops and tablets, but W10 is getting better with every build/upgrade. My "Skippy" Insider build works like a charm on...