Can someone explain to me the basis behind these problems with data collection? I.E from a personal level, a moral level, or a practical level, or some combination? I don't really get it. When it comes to something like facebook, it upsets me, as it's so very obvious, given we're getting it for free, that we're the product, we're basically the cow that's getting milked, but with windows 10 the data that's getting collected (that you can't turn off) isn't as much about targeted advertising etc and is (presumably) of a more telemetric nature. It's not like they're turning on our webcams and finding out what cereal we eat for breakfast so they can advertise shredded wheat or anything - privacy from intrusion is a nice idea but I don't see how what W10 does is intrusive.
My experience with windows 10 has been overwhelmingly positive. If I ever had to do things like leave my PC on overnight or for a long stretch so that it could run a program that couldn't autosave and restart once updates had completed, I would probably get 10 pro if that has the ability to prevent autoupdates; my laptop has crashed recently but I've got W10 on both here and my HTPC and they both seem to run smooth and safe, especially given my closest point of comparison is my cars OS, which is a trainwreck, and my phones OS, which has me, let's say, a little irked at the moment and is WAY more intrusive.
Having said that, I game on my PS4, so if I had the time and inclination, I would learn a version of linux.