Why the fuck are you using the home edition? And besides, the people who bitch about this are not the people who are going to be paying for Windows and are fine with using things like KMS AIO, so again, why the fuck are you using home edition?
I bought a "box" copy of Windows 8.1 many years ago at official price (around $200), which got upgraded all the way to 11. I like all improvements under the hood, but I am not going to reward pajeets for fucking up UI in the name of tablets and trying to appeal Mactards (and failing). Give me back my beloved Vista era control panel.
And to answer why would someone disable updates? For me it's not about disabling them permanently, just delaying so I can install them when convenient and make sure that nothing got fucked up.
I am no longer using WIndows on bare metal, just in VM for specialized tools. Unless it's at work, sorry. I prefer Arch although it comes with its own issues. I don't touch flatpak, give me a PKGBUILD or I will make it myself. Remember when Microsoft removed gpedit.msc from lower tiers of Windows 10? I do, and it pissed me off.
I'll pirate console games, I'll pirate movies, shows, and anime, I'll pirate books and music, but running random code from some unknown person that circumvents security measures of my primary desktop OS that is always connected to the internet and having hack-breaking updates is where I draw the line.
Meh, KMS activation is fine, You can look at the scripts and see what they do yourself. Just download official ISO and off you go. It's using Microsoft's mechanism to activate locally. Ever wondered how someone could activate thousands of PCs without leaving company NAT?
Windows updates don't break all your shit.
Depends on how bad your luck is. I love how Windows 10 insisted on installing broken audio drivers on my T430.
Only one page of sperging from my post. I will have to do better next time.
Edit.
> build a dope gaming PC
> $2000 for a 4090
> $600 for a 7900 X3D
> $200 for DDR5-6000
> le epic gamer mouse & keyboard for $200
> blow piles of money on Steam games I will never play every month
"I can't afford $100 for an operating system. That's robbery! I'll just get it from all-of-warez.ru instead. What could go wrong?"
Well, modern WIndows has ads and sells my data. Why pay if I'm the product? But people downloading shady isos are retards.