If it's not broken you don't fix it!

In fairness, a fair portion of the updates consists of bug fixes and security updates. You can ofcourse tell yourself XP isn't in need of fixes but you are likely to make yourself vulnerable by using a no longer supported system.

That said, I kept XP until the machine that ran it died, never really took to 8 that came with the replacing machine but I never had any real problems with 10, updates and all. Mind you, I gave it a thorough tweaking of security and privacy settings and switched off more than a few features.

Interesting about the change of lock screen picture a few posts earlier. I get a new lock screen pic every two or three days and am asked feedback about it. If I don't like it I get a different one. I thought that was standard procedure although my wife's laptiop sticks with one image all the time.