I know . Still the hoops you have to jump are hanging higher. Win 10 doesn't need much care after deactivating the stuff .
Running 8.1 on my Desktop and Win10 on a Laptop, although are both working fine I see no real reason to update the Desktop at present.
8.1 by miles, use @abbodi1406's w10 block, blocks telemetry on 7 and 8.1. Working on i3 8300 and B360 Coffee Lake, no igpu driver though.
8.1 with Classic Shell is the best Windows experience. It works and feels like 7 but also makes nice improvements. I never use the Windows Store. I never use the Start screen. Aside from occasionally having to open the settings app, I don't use apps. 8.1 also doesn't have the headache of 6-month upgrade cycles. In general 8.1 is also the most stable Windows version compared to the update hell on 7 and 10. It's a shame 8 had such a bad launch and turned people away from it. MS has nobody but themselves to blame for people holding onto 7 so tightly.
Of course, the old good stone ax is much better than the iron ax. And yet - cannot forget that antiquity goes more expensive in every day, but the new things goes cheaper in every day... NB! Attention! It's just my opinion and is not mandatory for/to anyone!
I like both to be honest, 8.1 just for a more retro feel to Windows, but 10 LTSC is quite good as well.
I'll never understand why people don't like Windows 8.1 start menu. I think it's much better than 7's. I have it setup so when I click start, or press the start button, I have all my most used apps pinned (I killed all the other junk, like weather, store, etc) and if I want to see all my other apps I just arrow down and everything is there.
Is this a troll thread? Lets just put it out there that W8/8.1 was Vista 2.0 If W7 had native DX12 and ISO support I would never have changed but so far so good, I'm really liking W10
Take a look at this thread. This solves the Onedrive problem on Win 8.1 https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...top-sync-client-working-on-windows-8-1.78138/
Never tried 8.1, jumped from 7 to 10. What a world of difference, a lot of flaming hoops to jump through to make win10 tolerable. That being the case I imagine 8.1 would be better unless you really need win10, which I do. I'd still be using 7 if I could.
@z0d_aWP The X570 chipset is a new inhouse AMD design, the lower 500 series chipsets are unkown at this time, they may be ASMedia. AMD may still use certain ASM bits in the X570 and the others. Intel doesnt provide usb3/3.1 8.1 drivers for B360 chipset(Coffee Lake, B360/i3 8300) because 8.1 has native ms ones. I installed a clean untouched 8.1 U3 iso on a usb3 port and i didnt need to add any additional drivers at all and the intel chipset inf installer works too. There isnt an Intel igpu driver for 8.1. Fiddled with the bios settings and all 4 cores run at 3.7(3.6 and a bit), no core parking or cpu throttling itself. With a single stick of 8gb 2400 ballistix sport, wd green 120gb ssd, 8.1 is fast and very well behaved. I have now updated 8.1 to fully satisfy WU, captured and installed the image, i get a warning at 1st logon the hardware is unsupported but thats it. MS blocks WU on it. Im happy. You can unblock WU with the zeffy patch. You dont need to put 8.1 through msmg(use embedded pro, no store apps), just disable tasks, services and tweak. Will need to keep an eye open for any ms ----ery
Actually - I gotcha all beat. Windows 8 (yes the original that everyone hates) is the best bet for the desktop. Here's why! No telemetry updates or CPU blocking (like 7 or 8.1) Very little of the improvements in 8.1 had to do with the explorer-based desktop. It was all Metro (which I disable anyway) You can use Server 2012 updates to patch Windows 8 after January 2016. More stable and faster than Windows 10. Really try the same tasks side-by-side with the same hardware As for those saying that Windows 10 spies on you, well, yes it gathers telemetry data - all software does now. That's how software companies do business in 2019. You don't sell boxed software anymore. But telemetry data is using for marketing and services improvement, and to target advertising. that's life in 2019. But, my beef with Windows 10 are the caption buttons (close/min/max) I hate them, and I prefer the Windows 8x appearance better, but also the update model makes Windows 10 a moving target. You can't plan for extensive standardized use, because features will change.
can confirm rocks over Windows 99 problems in the last 3 years and any case, i used windows 7 until that point. i switch to 99 problems (dual boot) only for games because gsync dosent work with my freesync monitor. i have nvidia videocard.