I'm on Win7, because I don't like updating when not needed, and I fear updating and losing things, compatibilities, conflicts, drivers, etc.
if the PC dies I should buy a new with win10 (or 11) directly, instead of updating win7 with all the installed apps and drivers. and having to reinstall everything takes so much time.
note: win7 can't even update itself without failing some packages :/
I can't update nvidia drivers either. it just crash to blackscreen and colored squares onscreens. at reboot, it's back to old version. I tried to fully uninstall it in safemode, reinstall it, same issue (I can't even reinstall the old version I had !). Hopefully I made backups.
so yes, I fear updating will just break more.
For now, I encountered only 2 softwares not working on win7 (OBS v28, but 27 is ok), and WizebotApp (BSOD), both related to game Streaming.
Another app announced they will drop support in 2023 (browser? I forgot), but I can just... not update, I suppose.
I fear some softwares I use daily wouldn't work anymore, like Girder (an USB UIRT adapter to control my PC using infrared remotes), or I would have to update a lot of drivers or reinstall them (video drivers, codecs, usbgecko, svn/git, etc.)
too much time consuming and fear of unknown. almost like a phobia :/