Oh absolutely. It’s running Ubuntu for a couple years now and it’s so much better.

I was always particularly fond of windows turning my laptop on, running updates, and then going into hibernation, which then caused a blue screen trying to come out of it.

The laptop had sleep and hibernation disabled, all of the wake-on-events and automatic updates were disabled as well. (It was an older cranky thing and deserved rest - or to be taken out back and shot.)

Yet, somehow it always turned on for update day, even after I blocked it from the internet via the router.

I thought the same. I was confused when articles and posts about it started popping up. It’s been around for a Very Long Time.