It's a lot of work to de-crapify Win 10 home. Virtually all is MS promoting or hijacking you on the POS Edge browser (I use Firefox or Chrome), or on the start menu filled with now-disabled craplinks. Or jamming you to use Bing and hiding alternatives where the sun don't shine.
And pushing Skype and Windows Store on you.
Shows they're emulating Apple.
Hadn't planned to comment, but your reply spoke to me.
Here's my challenge: Assume you're retired and all of your savings is all you have. You bank on-line out of necessity. Now, Windows 10 comes along and offers to let you give all your friends easy access to your network in a variety of ways: some described, some less obvious, and some eventual exploits that MS will fix someday but probably not advertise broadly because it might scare away new converts.
Sounds Great!! Where do I sign up? Also, thanks to all in advance for dismissing any concerns. MS knows what's best. I'm here to serve.
A freeware program caled DoNotSpy10 turns off a slew of features that MS provided to make our computing experience more fruitful. I, however, will not try it out soon because I'm just an old fuddy duddy who is still happy with Windows 7 and has managed to make peace with Windows 8 via Classic Shell.
Planning to play around with Linux, again. Going to put it on a lesser used laptop soon. Android use makes the transition an easier sell to the household. Hope it's better than the last time I tried it out. I just got a factory refurb Samsung Tab Pro 12 for a low price. Add a battery powered Bluetooth keyboard, a good case / stand and a mouse and ... voila ... my new favorite desktop / laptop replacement for 80% of what I do. Really snappy performance, too.
Whoa ... I just figured something out. I just built a router and put it in my basement. It only uses about 3% CPU when busy and 1GB storage. I plan to take a new course at a community college next Spring on virtual machines. They will teach Hyper-V and VMware. I have considered putting the router in a VMware VM but am unsure about what to do with the rest of the box's capacity. Now I know. Combining TeamViewer with a Win7 VM on the new box will give me access to the other 20% from any tablet. My Win7 mainframe. Who would have thought? It should make a good series of articles for my website next year. I suppose if that didn't work or was too complicated or I just got impatient, I could put an old laptop in the basement next to the router box, tell it to never go to sleep, and end up in the same place ... a shared Win7 or Win8 laptop / mainframe accessible from any tablet via TeamViewer that used minimal watts of electricity.
Edit: Even better. I forgot that TeamViewer supports wake-on-lan. My PCs have been hit or miss there but even better if it works.
