Windows 10 vs Windows 7

[David444]

How would previous windows 7 users rate their experience they might have had with ten? Upgrading from windows 8.1 is beneficial because it gives you a start screen and all, but to me I still personally prefer 7. The only resemblance ten has to 7 is the start menu. Other than that the features and UI was definitely leaning towards 8. I liked have the transparent glass, the flipping 3d, and the Aero affects. Also would it be accurate to say windows 8.1 is it's own OS? Like if someone randomly asked me to list the OS's starting from XP and I said: XP, Vista,7,8,8.1,10 would this be right? Or is 8.1 just considered a large service pack to 8?

 

[Agash]

8.1 is considered an OS because of the start button.

I have Win 7+10 in dual boot, right now I'm using windows 7 because of Aero and less errors. Windows 10 still has bumps but it's a great OS. I used it since the first beta came out back in September of 2014 or somewhere around there. I see no benefits to upgrading except for DirectX 12 but that's only used a bit and is supposed to lower the # of draw calls that the CPU make so the GPU can do all the work. Better for processors that bottleneck the GPU. I prefer windows 7 over 10 any day or until I see a major change. At least you don't have to click on the program to scroll, where the mouse is, you can scroll the window without clicking. Windows 10: 7/10. Average OS, the same thing actually.

 

[photonboy]

1) Windows 10 is not stable yet.

2) Windows 10 is better in many ways. Eventually in almost every way.

3) *Most people simply don't understand the vast number of changes you can't see that affect things like:
a) security
b) memory management
c) device usage (SSD etc)

Of the things you CAN see I'm very impressed with how split-screen works now. I use that a lot.

Summary:
My advice is definitely upgrade, but WAIT to do so until at least November. When you do, assume a worst-case scenario and backup etc.

Finally, Windows 7 will stop getting security updates and of course DX12 isn't even supported if you intend to game.

For more information there's lots of sites, but I didn't really "get it" until I actually used it.

 

[Agash]

1) Windows 10 is not stable yet.

2) Windows 10 is better in many ways. Eventually in almost every way.

3) *Most people simply don't understand the vast number of changes you can't see that affect things like:
a) security
b) memory management
c) device usage (SSD etc)

Of the things you CAN see I'm very impressed with how split-screen works now. I use that a lot.

Summary:
My advice is definitely upgrade, but WAIT to do so until at least November. When you do, assume a worst-case scenario and backup etc.

Finally, Windows 7 will stop getting security updates and of course DX12 isn't even supported if you intend to game.

For more information there's lots of sites, but I didn't really "get it" until I actually used it.

I actually never thought about that. May go back and see the differences. It was a bit quicker, but due to being a bit unstable, that went away a few days later and became slower over time.

 

[velo3100]

Windows 10 in my opinions needs a lot of work. The main bug that I found and will add to my post is what I call the sleep bug. Basically when I put my laptop to sleep it sometimes will go to sleep but sometimes will stay on and keep the hdd running. This causes the temps to rise up by quite a bit. The only way I have solved this is to put it on hibernate. Also beware that sometimes your gpu may come on randomly as some process is using it.

But apart from those its about the same. I still prefer 7 but don't have a disk as my laptop came with 8.