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I personally find windows10 to be one of the most "invasive" desktop experiences that I've ever used. No matter what I do, I can't seem to properly turn off all the bloat and extra notification shipped with it.

I'm sure YMMV but I just have a hard time taking it seriously for anything beyond booting up to play a game. I wouldn't even use it for that if I had a choice and the supported OS landscape was different than it is.

The icing on the cake for me was when I had to edit the registry in order to re-enable the checkbox toggle for booting directly into the desktop. I just wanted to be able to turn on my steam box and be able to boot right into big picture mode on startup but MS had different ideas about what options I should be presented with by default.



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