Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200401145425/@comment-43797581-20200402004343

Hollowness wrote: Arthur Read fan wrote: It's kind of like when Microsoft offered their infamous "free Windows 10 upgrade" on owners of Windows 7 or 8.1 back in 2015-16, which ruined a lot of people's computers when they started forcing the update on them. -Arthur Read fan This happened to me, pestered and pestered to update I tried the free trail but suddenly had to go away for a month and when I got back I forgot I was on the trail and once I realized I forgot to revert I couldn't revert and a shortly after it actually wiped my computer completely with no recovery. THIS is a good example of why I dislike repetitive pestering. I know, right? Thankfully, it never happened to me or my Lenovo ThinkPad T420 laptop, which I still have to this day. It still runs Windows 7 Pro. I got it in April 2016, and I remember having to keep it away from the internet and updates for the most part, at least until about October 2016, when Microsoft FINALLY stopped with the free Windows 10 promotions. Fortunately, updates were (and still are) set to manual on my laptop, but I figured to err on the side of caution, just in case.

-Arthur Read fan