[joombaga]

I often do want to go back to XP, yes. My experience is approximately the inverse of yours. W10 is better for included drivers for sure. I've had to do many more registry and group policy changes on W10 than I ever needed in XP. Sometimes it feels like the GUI is lying to me about how the system can be configured. The most obvious example is that from the Windows Update GUI is appears updates can only be delayed temporarily, and must be completed before another temporary delay. This isn't the case; they've broken the connection between GUI and the settings, then lied about the existence of the setting. This isn't entirely new (95/98/XP had TweakUI), but it feels more deceptive or controlling now vs. just not exposing a feature. The cumulative updates are a huge improvement.