Windows 10

better than 7 worse than 8

Well let me share with you my horror story as short as I can. I went from 8.1 to 10 home, at first I just downloaded the files and went into some video watching on Youtube without installing, I wanted to install when I went to sleep. Then all of a sudden YouTube stopped working... no, actually my Wi-Fi adapter stopped working!!!

I unplugged my mom's desktop and plugged my laptop to the router's LAN, then I found out in google than it's happening to a lot of users, I read and tried over a dozen methods and nothing brought my WIFi adapter back, not even downloading the driver helped me. At this point I panicked and decided to install the damn thing (remember, I just hit the download button and it already started fucking my stuff).

After installing Win 10 nothing changed, I tried a couple of things but nope... I downgraded to 8.1 and went back to a Restore point of the day before to no change, then used a restore point of a week ago and VOILA! Everything worked as normal, I went to work, and at night of that day... the same shit happened. I tried restoring back and didn't work, then I reinstalled the drivers and it worked again.

But the next day... (day 3) my nightmare continued. At this point I flipped and decided to make a backup of my files and clean install Windows, download all my drivers from my laptop model and after that I reinstalled Windows 10 once and from all. After all of that my baby was functional again <3

However there have been 2 times that the wifi Adapter magically disappeared, reparing the driver worked one time and the second time I had to reinstall it completely... so yeah, now I have to keep them at hand if something doesn't work. I turned off most of Microsoft spy stuff since they hinder a bit the performance and I don't want to share all that data, I share enough with Google already (oh the irony, lol).

Tl;dr

Windows 10 uses much less RAM and HDD space, it's a good OS, but it has some compatibility issues... so have at hand your drivers!

the only problem I've ever had with windows 10 was getting Just Cause 2 to run, but it was a pretty common problem on the community forums and there was an easy work-around. I've heard stories of Fallout 3 not being optimized for anything past Win 7, but I'm sure someone's worked out how to play it.

I switched from Win 8.1 the changes are mostly cosmetic,internet connection is less stable,I do have slight improvement in some games,0 improvement in others.I like the visual changes enough to keep it.

To be honest, I thought it was worth it to upgrade from Windows 7 on my desktop. Especially since it got my usb3 ports working.

On the other hand I regret upgrading from 8.1 on my laptop.

I will probably upgrade when DX 12 makes sense...

I've been using Windows 8.1 and hated from the start... After reading all these comments, I'll have to get that upgrade later today :|

I'd say no. Windows 8.1 is way better. Been using it for almost three years and I've never had any problem with it. I love it.