I'm not a fan of Windows 10 but figured I needed to learn it. I bought an Acer Aspire A515-51 for $450 from Walmart. That's not much more than I've been paying for used Thinkpads, and I got a new battery this way. I nearly bought one of these for Wife when her HDD died a week or two ago.
I haven't figured out how much of the crapware I can remove, but I have removed a lot of it. I tried doing a "reset" to get a clean MS install without any Acer stuff, but the install hung at 1% and so I backed it out. (wasn't sure I'd be able to)
I was pleased that this laptop will play Civilization 6. My old one with very similar specs but an earlier version of Intel integrated graphics won't load it. Then Windows Update said I was on an old driver build reaching end of life and needed to upgrade. (I think it's the 1607 build and it wanted me on 1709) After the upgrade, Civ 6 stopped working. It loads, but then when the game actually starts the picture loses sync or something. So I rolled back to 1607, and I changed my network connection to "metered" to keep it from automatically upgrading again. I also took a Win 7-type image backup so I can get back to this version if I have to.
I don't care for the new start menu, but even worse (I think this is an Acer thing, not MS) is the buttonless track pad. But I'm kinda getting used to it.
We have an old Sharp multifunction printer; model AL-1655CS. It's the printer my wife uses. Sharp barely acknowledges now that they ever made one with that model number. They have a Windows XP-64, 8, and 7 driver, but don't claim support for Windows 10. The installer fails halfway thru the install on 10. So I tried sharing the printer from a Win 7 desktop and I turned off the checkbox that said something like "render on client". I connected to it from the new machine and it printed a test page. It installed some driver software and it printed just fine. Perhaps if I check the renderer box again it will install the rest of the printer driver and I can create a local port on the W10 system and not need an intermediate server. But if not, this shared-printer arrangement is better than I thought I'd get working.