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tl;dr: Directing the wind is not possible, being compelled to adjust my sails. How can I transition to Windows 10 and not suffer extreme loss in productivity.
Windows Classic Theme: How do I get something like this. I assume other Soylentils are like me and the first thing they do when logging onto a Windows XP/7 computer is change the theme to classic. Has anyone done this yet on Windows 10? In my very brief experience dealing with 10 I was unable to find a way to do this, I presume that they removed this because they are awful people.
Specifications: How powerful of a computer do I need to do the same thing I am currently able to do without any lag. I was compelled to do testing using an i7 laptop with 8gb of ram from a couple of years ago, I found I was unable to do any testing because it was bogged down at 95% CPU capacity just running the base OS. What should I be running to make this thing bearable. My job function is to review, build, maintain reports which can involve files large enough to bog me down on my current system (i7-5600U with 8gb), what hardware should I have, how much ram should I have.
Experience: What lessons did others here learn the hard way as they went though this process. I am aware of the updates causing data to be non exist and things of that nature. What are things that I need to know about in this new age of 10.
I am sure there are some other things I should ask, just can't remember ATM.
Just run Linux XD: I am not allowed to withdraw consent from Windows 10, but I am pushing off implementation as long as possible.
[For information about issues with Windows' updates, see Ask Woody. --Ed]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Marand on Thursday November 01 2018, @01:30PM
Would it be possible for you to run Linux as the host OS and keep W10 in a VM? My experience with Windows 10 has been that it's a really nice OS to use as long as it's not the host; being in a VM makes its occasional nagging and frequent hijacking of control to do updates and whatnot much less infuriating because you can continue to be productive in a more mature host OS while it's showing another dumb cutesy "Hi I'm doing updates now please wait :-)" message.
Unfortunately I don't have much else for advice, I deliberately keep W10 as default as possible since it lives in a VM and doesn't do any more than I absolutely need it to do. I do suggest installing WSL (Windows Services for Linux) and picking up a distro (Debian is my suggestion) from their "app store", though. Having easy access to all the common command line tools without having to mess around with cygwin is really useful.
Also, probably not an issue for work, but you should not accept anything less than Windows 10 Pro, which gives additional control over update cycle. You can pick a slower release track to avoid being an unwilling beta tester, plus add an extra delay on top of that to defer "feature updates" updates even longer. Those are the ones that are more likely to be frustrating or system-breaking, so I like giving them a few months' extra time to let other people find the problems. (*cough* deleting your files)