So basically, for the last week my dad's old laptop have been absolutely wrecked by update. His laptop restarts while in use without warning, it forces updates and literally bluescreens because of it, all sorts of Windows update process and "compatibility telemetry" are taking 90% of the CPU and memory resources and when I kill them then force restart, the laptop lags like hell for a moment.
So what I'm saying, is Microsoft secretly fucking up with old PCs and laptops that are still good enough to run 10 but can't upgrade to 11? Like what Apple did with their old phones? I've been trying to look for information about this yet none of the tech sites turns up anything.
You have to understand that Microsoft will drop Windows 10 support (security updates) in a couple of years and then you'll be forced to update to 11, if you plan on sticking to Windows. Switching to Linux is really easy nowadays, since there's a number of really popular distros like Manjaro, Ubuntu and Mint that are intended for casual users. They come with all the basic software (Firefox, Libre Office, media players etc) and drivers preinstalled and you don't even really ever need to learn how to use the dreaded terminal if you don't want to.