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Many Windows 10 users didn't pay for it. It was shoved down their throats against their will as an "important security update" to Windows 7 or Windows 8.

You can install on Linux and macOS.

And because it's from Microsoft, you're going to keep paying for it, over and over again!

Windows update? That's gonna cost you an hour. Update got botched? 2 hours, and all of your browser settings. Registry corrupted?!? 3 hours for backup and reinstall! Can't figure out how to change a setting, because the option used to be there, then disappeared in the last update? 1 hour searching SO, 1 hour crying.

I don’t know if that’s still the case as I haven’t used windows for 20 years, certainly sounds like windows 98.

However it’s your choice in this day and age to use windows.

I don't use it, as I don't like having a monkey on my back. I had the unfortunate experience of having to install it today after losing a long battle to get Fusion 360 running smoothly on Linux. I can say first hand that Windows has become so much more mediocre than I remember; everything about it screams "we cater to the average and mundane".