How do I know if there is some kind of Windows emergency brainfart going on at any given moment? Concerning the system-breaking updates for example? Anything Microsoft.com is dead internet theory incarnate, just lost boomers talking to robots 5 years ago. The search engines no longer search. News websites no longer care. Some amount of grift or malpractice is simply accepted for any software changes now. Doubly so if your hardware is "legacy".

Anyway, I now have a double boot system with win 8.1 and win 10, and the 10 tries to convince me my RAM is dying, while 8.1 boots up without flinching, all 4 RAM chips chugging along smoothly. The BSOD is precipitated by an update, and I already pulled back from the edge three times by rolling back and throwing RAM around the slots, but it is getting tiresome. I feel like my decently good hardware is being updated out of usability.

Should I just never update? Install gentoo?