Yes, Windows 10 seems to perform pretty well and I haven't had any problems with crashing. However, performance doesn't mean much when you've pretty much destroyed usability. Memo to Microsoft: Little things are important.
I want to like Windows 10. I really do. I've always been eager to get the newest version of anything, as soon as I can. Windows 8 and 10 have broken me of that behavior.
In no particular order:
(Note: Some of these problems may have originated in Windows 8, but very few people use Win 8 and so this is written from the viewpoint of a person going from XP or Win 7 --> to Win10)
Recycle Bin -- Right click on the Recycle Bin. First item on the list is "Open", second item is "Empty Recycle Bin". It's been that way for as long as there has been a Recycle Bin.
Welcome to Windows 10 where the second item on the menu is no longer "Empty Recycle Bin". It has been replaced with "Pin to Quick Access" and "Empty Recycle Bin" is now third. So now, every time I want to empty the Recycle Bin, I pin it to the Quick Access folder instead. 20 years of muscle memory out the window. And for what? A "feature" whose usefulness is highly questionable. Little things are important.
Windows Explorer -- Now renamed to File Explorer. The biggest change is the replacement of the menu bar, that has been standard on all Windows programs for 20 years, with the God Awful Ribbon®.
No more .
Now, all your functions are scattered about in various places with names that give you no clue what they are for.
Cut, Copy and Paste, among others, are no longer under a menu called "Edit". No, there's no longer any menu heading called Edit. Now they are all under "Home".
WTF does that even mean?
Tools? You'll eventually find it. Way over on the far right end of the God Awful Ribbon® as a submenu under "Options".
The Start Menu -- Windows 10's big claim to fame is The Return Of The Start Menu.
Don't believe the hype. All you get is a faux Start Menu that is nearly useless and lacks most of the functionality found in the real Start Menu of Windows 7 (and earlier). Fortunately, there's a free program called Classic Shell that gives you a real honest-to-goodness Start Menu, just like God intended.
However, having to resort to third part addons to fix things that never should have been changed in the first place, and the fact that Windows XP (now nearly 14 years old), has a better, more functional Start Menu than Windows 10, is just another sad commentary on the truly awful UI that is Windows 10.
New Security Model -- And you thought UAC was annoying. You ain't seen nothin' yet. Windows Vista introduced the concept of The Administrator Who Isn't Really An Administrator and now Microsoft has pulled out all the stops in their effort to make Windows 10 the most annoying OS ever.
Welcome to Windows 10, The OS Where Nothing Is Allowed. Everything you do will result in a dialog box telling you that you "Don't Have Permission". And I do mean EVERYTHING. Even something as trivial as deleting an item from the faux Start Menu triggers a dialog requiring you to Click Here To Provide Authorization.
Want to unzip a bunch of files to a folder that doesn't exist? No problem. Just give WinRAR the name you want and it will create the destination folder for you. Oops. Sorry. You're running Windows 10. The operation will fail. Even if you tell winrar.exe to "Run as Administrator". So you have to use File Explorer to create the destination directory first, then unrar or unzip into it.
Try to create a shortcut in certain directories? Sorry not allowed, but Windows will (un)helpfully offer to create the shortcut on the desktop instead. And then, you can drag the shortcut from the desktop to the location where you really want it. That works just fine. My head is starting to hurt.
I did manage to eliminate most of this nonsense by running a script that changes the permissions on every file and directory on my computer. Another shining example of how Microsoft is going that extra mile to make you hate your computer.
Note to Microsoft: I don't have permission?? IT'S MY F***ING COMPUTER!! Whoever is responsible for this nonsense should be killed to death repeatedly. Yes, I know, there are parents with small, unruly children and businesses with small, unruly employees, who need this sort of "security". That's fine. But that's your problem, not mine. Stop making it my problem. Nobody touches my computer but me, and if you aren't going to give me a way to easily turn this crap off, then you really need to FOAD.