I haven't changed my objections to Windows 10, but I've left myself with no real choice but to head to it as I left it too long to do the proper research needed to choose an appropriate distro and equivalent applications for the ones I use on Windows 7.
Hopefully I'll be able to control things to a slightly more acceptable level on Windows 10 with various third-party tools (such as O&O ShutUp10). While I would certainly hope to revisit the option of switching at a future point, that's unlikely to be any time soon - and if I found something appropriate, Win10 would then be put inside a VM for me to do whatever I felt necessary at that point.
With things as they stand however, I'd obviously want to be able to keep all my installed applications and settings (assuming they wouldn't break on Win10 anyway) and thus do it as an Upgrade rather than clean install.
As I intend to transfer the SSD it is installed upon to my imminent new system however, the question becomes whether to implement the upgrade on this system and then move it across - and thus hope it would still boot up normally with the new hardware without any issues - or wait until the SSD is transferred over to the new system and hope the installation media detects the recent hardware and also can still do it as an upgrade from Windows 7.
An added potential complication is that I'd be purchasing Win10 Pro, current Operating System is 7 Home Premium.
Any insights would be welcome, so thank you in advance for any provided.


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