My Windows 10 Update Experience

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>have HP Pavilion laptop I'm not using
>figure I'll try Windows 10 on it because the free upgrade for assistive technologies thing is still going on
>download Upgrade Tool
>takes 10 hours to get to 99%
>gets stuck at 99%
>troubleshoot why it's stuck at 99%
>lots of people have this problem
>fuck around for two hours with no luck
>decide fuck it, I'll install it from a USB stick
>get Windows 10 Media Tool on my desktop PC
>use the "Make an Install USB Stick" option
>it doesn't recognize my USB stick
>fine I'll make an ISO
>it needs 8GB of free space on my C drive
>no option for using another drive
>fine, I'll just download the ISO
>download the ISO
>use Rufus and make a bootable USB install stick
>finally install it on the laptop
>it didn't recognize that I had tried to upgrade with the assistive tool and didn't give me my free upgrade
>use a key I got from Dreamspark/Imagine
>it finally installs
>"Express installation option?" No
>oh wow "Express" meant leave ten thousand telemetry options enabled and use my PC as a free torrent host for Microblow
>disable all that shit
>whole system is cluttered with bullshit bloatware like Candy Crush
>disable all that and Cortana
>my graphics card is waaayy too old and Win10 can't find drivers for it
>install Windows 7 64bit drivers
>Win10 still doesn't recognize my graphics card even after the drivers are "installed successfully"
>manually update the driver to the ancient NVIDIA driver through device manager
>it works(!!!???)
>use a telemetry/bloatware remover
>removes all the shit and adds 10000 entries to my host file
>finally usable
>it's actually pretty nice
And that is my story