To upgrade, or not to update? -That's the question. | Windows 10 vs Windows 7

I upgraded 7 -> 10 two days ago, and so far no issues. In fact it's been a net positive because my system is noticeably faster than Win 7.

Windows 10 is superior - no regrets.
I hope the people who voted Win 7 didn't vote that just b/c they haven't even tried Win10.

I'm personally going to stick with Win 7 and hope that developers start using Vulkan instead of DX12 so I can eventually switch to Linux. I don't want to install an OS that comes with a keylogger. Win 10 also takes too much control from the user and forces its "features" on you such as the mandatory updating, which can delete 3rd party software.

I'm probably keeping Windows 7 till I'm forced to change, but I'm honestly hopping that Linux based OS will have better support for games by then.
As many have stated as main point of Windows 10 that is "free", I still have not seen same support from "average user community" for Linux OS which is also free.
Arguments for Windows 10 are same as for Linux, it's free, it has less support for games, has promise of better gaming in near future, but in reality its not so close, apparently has better resource management and in general better performance on all machines.

But main question still stands "Can it adequately run my steam library?"...

You will hear a lot but ultimately the way to figure it out is to test W10 with everything you normally do, change settings as necessary and then decide for yourself. There are tons of changes and so you will see something you don't care about in the slighest making someone feel really annoyed at W10 and vice-versa.

Personally I rather dislike the way UI in software is going these days, years ago when I went from XP to 7 it was annoying to see it changed at all but there were a few legit improvements and the vast host of pointless things were easily disabled so I upgraded and considered it an actual improvement. This hasn't been true for years now in not only OS but also other software(browsers especially) so I have to settle for either having to track down the obscure ways to fix things or rely on other people developing fixes.

I'm going to continue running XP until I have a good reason to upgrade. I have a key for Win 7, but I haven't installed it yet and I have to decide if I want to keep the key as Win 7 or upgrade it to 10 for free before the 1 year period ends because I know I'll need it sooner or later. Compatibility with XP can't last that much longer.

Why the f*** you asking about Win10 if your current Windows working just fine.
If you need "features" from new OS, then go upgrade right now!

My Mother has 10 and she absolutely cannot navigate it. She ain't 70, she's 44 and isn't computer illiterate but 10's "organized" look is pretty jarring and she's had it since it came out. I don't like updating shit since what I have right now (Windows 7) does okay by itself.

Been using windows 10 since its been out and have yet to have any issues with it. Don't see why you wouldn't upgrade tbh.

Windows 10 is nice. I don't see that much of a difference between 7 and 10 so there's no need to upgrade if you don't want to.

Just this morning I was reading about another reason NOT to upgrade:

Windows 10’s fall update is deactivating certain apps without asking

Try to delay as long as possible. Upgrade on 2 pc, 8.1 and 7 with some issues faced.

Debian.

I upgraded to windows 10 from 7, best thing I did.

In windows 7 all the old games I had like commandos, desperados and others would not play, now maybe I am lucky they play with windows 10.
Also I had no crashes and most games and programs run faster and smoother.

Upgrade, or more preferably, use online tutorials to make a boot image for Win10, make a bootable USB stick with it, save your data, format your system drive, and do a fresh, clean installation. More hassle, but results in a more stable and somewhat faster system, and also gets rid of the NTFS permissions issues most Windows OS changes have since Vista.

Win 10 is basicly one big spyware . Win 7 for life ; P

Windows Potato 200!

Windows 8 entirely different from 7 but windows 10 rather closer to windows 7 so I say do the update and enjoy new features at worse case you could always make a system restore disk with old system and use it in case you want to go back.

Win 10 is fine. Explorer feels sluggish sometimes, but other than that its better than 7 in most other ways. Even the UI looks better on high DPI screens.

Everytime I see 'Windows 10 is Spyware' comment, I wonder how these retarded guys live their life daily. Must be easier to follow and jump on the hate train.

i updates from win7 to win10 this very week.
the update was long (i left it running in the night) but smooth.
afterwards i made some benchmarks: start up time, visual feeling of snappiness, geekbench and 3dmark.
i gathered enough evidence that in my pc win10 is much slower than win7.
i stick with win7 in my main hd, still i keep a winxp disk and a win10 disk..

From what I learned in the past: dont switch unless its absolutely necessary.