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> Prepare to be thoroughly annoyed with the new windows... As usual.

LOL, yeah.... but you know, I'm a big fan of the old Win2000 Classic UI. Quick, trim, simple, easy to use.

The first thing I do with a new XP install is brain-damage it back to W2K Classic, successfully.

The first thing I do with a new Vista install is wipe it and install Win7.

The first thing I do with a new Win7 install is invoke Windows Classic theme, and brain-damage it back to Classic, as far back as it will go, which is most of the way. No Quick Launch bar, but you can define a new custom toolbar on the taskbar that works about the same.

The first thing I do with a new Win8 or 8.1 install is upgrade it to Win10.

The first thing I do with a new Win10 install is scrape all the Metro tile crap out of the start menu and brain-damage it as far back as it will go, which isn't as far as Win7 allows, but is far enough to make the UI useful.

Having done the above, I'm using Windows 10 at work all day every day now and it's okay. I don't like it nearly as much as 7 but it's adequately functional, nice and speedy, stable so far, and once you disable all the spyware crap it feels nice and quiet. I found a few incompatibilities but I'm learning to work around them.

So per your comment, I was only annoyed the first few hours. Once it was properly brain-damaged, all has been pretty good.