Microsoft's hard-on for shoving ads down its users' throats is exactly why the only versions of Windows I'll touch nowadays (and probably ever again) are the following:
- Windows 2000 and prior releases
- Windows 10 LTSC (formerly LTSB)
- Windows Server
And this would be only in cases where Windows is absolutely necessary; otherwise, why take that risk when Linux (and more recently OpenBSD) has been nice and good to me as a daily driver for 10 years now?
- Windows 2000 and prior releases - Windows 10 LTSC (formerly LTSB) - Windows Server
And this would be only in cases where Windows is absolutely necessary; otherwise, why take that risk when Linux (and more recently OpenBSD) has been nice and good to me as a daily driver for 10 years now?