I am not too concerned about these updates breaking Home machines as that version of Windows will only be getting stable patches that have already been tested by Insiders and presumably, other versions of Windows.
What concerns me more is disk space. Being an insider now, every build upgrade eats away about 16 GB of disk space, saved in the Windows.old folder. Granted, presumably Home machines will not be receiving these huge build upgrades but even normal Windows updates quickly pile up and consume copious amounts of space. There are ways of cleaning these temporary files but the assumption with a Home user should be that they don't have the technical know-how to perform these maintenance tasks.
Win10 is supposed to run on the same hardware as Win8 and this means a lot of users will be installing it (technically will be forced to install it) on laptops with small SSD drives and these updates will fill these drives very quickly. I hope Microsoft implements some proper automated cleanup service for Win10.
By contrast, Linux cleans up after its updates very efficiently and even rolling releases never balloon up in size uncontrollably:)
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I am not too concerned about these updates breaking Home machines as that version of Windows will only be getting stable patches that have already been tested by Insiders and presumably, other versions of Windows. What concerns me more is disk space. Being an insider now, every build upgrade eats away about 16 GB of disk space, saved in the Windows.old folder. Granted, presumably Home machines will not be receiving these huge build upgrades but even normal Windows updates quickly pile up and consume copious amounts of space. There are ways of cleaning these temporary files but the assumption with a Home user should be that they don't have the technical know-how to perform these maintenance tasks. Win10 is supposed to run on the same hardware as Win8 and this means a lot of users will be installing it (technically will be forced to install it) on laptops with small SSD drives and these updates will fill these drives very quickly. I hope Microsoft implements some proper automated cleanup service for Win10. By contrast, Linux cleans up after its updates very efficiently and even rolling releases never balloon up in size uncontrollably :)