Anyone here whom has known both Windows 8.1 and 10 for private use; and if so - do you think Windows 10 is better, in fact?

I've searched the web, but it was more technocratic sort of "tick down" - Win 10 had this feature, bla bla, Win 8.1 had another.

I admit I ask this because I have found Win 8.1 bluuady nuisance; and I am offered the option to upgrade to Windows OS 10 "for free".

With Win 8.1; I have had to restore from "image" already tiwice - bought my "fancy-pants-video card" (GTX 980M - supposed to be modern, right??) so that I had it Jan this year.

IMO, Win 8.1 sucks, I know it:

- To run the full command prompt analytics and restore from image without OS CDs twice already for such fresh HW... hard and hateful, really, as my nerd status is only "wannabe" or "rather a sad noobie")
- Compounded with mysterious incompatility with non-McAfree virus protection (that comes as default baggage)
- Any clients being, I would guess, the "usual pain in the ass, if possibly not just a bit worse..."

For example Origin just does not take "use local data; believe it already - no cloud!" uncumbersome for an answer even when both HW and network connection should be fine.

I rather dislike Win 8.1; I would have stuck to XP in the ideal world - but one is forced these days if not one of those cool-handed "make my own rig sort types," which I am not.

But I do fear that Win 10 is indifferent for user friendliness; general stability; and possibly worse for client stability.

For those, whom have used both Win 8 and 10 for leisure use - is Win 10 okei, at least?? Better, even?

And thx for insight! Really. :-)


Edit: spelling.

Better than 8.1 by miles. Like Windows 8 with a Windows 7 front end, and 7 is not that far removed from XP overall.

8.1 is many times better than 7 for me, and 10 is definitely better than 8.1.

Unfortunately, 8 has broken DDraw emulation that was fine in 7 and it seems the brokenness has carried over to 10. So for now 7 is a good one to stick to if you like older games.

This suddenly reminds me of the recent XBone announcement, where both MS and Sony refused to put in backwards compatibility in the systems because they wouldn't sell and they wanted to push newer games... now MS announced they are putting backwards compatibility in and it's supposedly the 'biggest news' for a while...

I'd recommend going/sticking with Win7, unless you HAVE to have DX12 (which is effectively unused at this point)

He's on Windows 8.1 already, the only question is whether 10 is better. I think that the consensus is yes, but my guess is there will still be some rare compatibility problems that 8.1 doesn't have.

Windows 8 is really bad, so by default almost anything is better...

Unless it's being used on it's target platform which was a tablet and where keyboard/mouse isn't your primary input devices.

IMO it's bad there too. I much prefer my Android tablets UI to the Windows tablet one. Frankly, I think it's worse for tablets than for desktop/laptop, because keyboard/mouse machines it's possible to hide Metro almost completely, but on tablets doing that doesn't make the device more usable.

Anyway, being bad doesn't mean that it can't get worse. So Windows 10 being considered better is a good thing.

With the potential controversy around windows 10 id say drop back to 7

What controversy?

Windows 10 is way better than Windows 7, TStael should upgrade to Windows 10 while it's free.

The faster boot load times and performance is very good on Windows 10.

The discussion over whether it may or may not be subscription, until that is in black and white I would not advise anyone to get windows 10

FUD. Complete and utter FUD. It won't be subscription based, the slides presented are for the financial reports.

Windows 10 will not be a subscription OS. You have a one year period to upgrade for free, after that, you pay like for a license like it used to be. They're doing that to reduce the amount of people in older versions. I will advised everyone to "enlist" for a copy of Windows 10 now, and then wait 6/7 months until reviews and patches start rolling like crazy... theeeen you download from their website an image and you can install it with your license. Just don't let a year go by.

PS: If Microsoft took a subscription approach, EVERYONE will get out of there. It is possible that they'll take some sort of subscription approach for businesses, though.

One question - as I mentioned in another thread already, I'm kind of confused why they added tiles to the start menu: Does that mean there is no Metro screen in Win 10 anymore?