So I've cobbled up parts for a VR-capable PC (RTX 2060 super, ryzen 3600X)
I'm very fucking reluctant about going windows 10 though, I've had a horrible experience where a fucked update came and somehow made explorer.exe not work, resulting in me booting into only a black screen and a cursor even in safe-mode, something that forced me to reinstall the OS (and apparently the servers were overloading at the time for some reason so I spent the entirety of friday trying to install that piece of shit)
Adding salt to injury, I had to retry installing it because it kept stalling to the point where it forced me to wipe my drive.
Basically speaking I had a horrible experience with this piece of shit software but i want my vidy games. I also don't really want the botnet to suck up all my personal info. I don't really care about the info itself, but more the fact that they're basically profiting off of me breathing, so to speak.
My question is, what are my options from this point on? Do I bite the bullet and get win10? If so, which version? 
Or should I try running it on win7 instead? What about [spoiler]Linux?[/spoiler]