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Originally Posted by STEED
I will when time comes get Win10 but it will never be connected to the web, it will be used off line. As for on line Mint sounds good to me.
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Keep in mind, you cannot seal off W10 to not go online or simply unplug the wire if you depend on for example Steam or any game or software that demands online connectivity. I reported last late autumn that I got hit by by GWX updates on my old installation of W7
even although I had WU switched off. Microsoft sneaked in via other, non-documented ways, probbaly the al-ways active, W7 embedded Explorer that Windows 7 depends on for background tasks. On W10 you cannot trust to prevent updates while leaving the wire connected, only delay them a bit, you also cannot select and chose between wanted and unwanted updates anymore. W7 seems to get the same treatment now from Octobre on.
Best advise for new installations is to use an older Windows like W7, and patch it to a standard of mid-last-year by using a patch archive on DVD. Do not download stuff from microsoft servers anymore. They have lied so often now and intentionally mislabelled patches to make people downloading them unsuspiciously that all trust is gone. If you even cannot trust them anymore that a labelled essential security patch is indeed a security patch only, then you have no reason anymore to invest any trust in them.