O/S of choice?

[Gorilla]

I have been asked to upgrade several of my family members computer lately, and I have been stuck with either 8 or 10. Personally, I run 7 on my home machines.

What are people using who box more regularly?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

If the choice is 8 or 10, I'd go with 10 without hesitation.

[Jimshaman]

If the choice is 8 or 10, I'd go with 10 without hesitation.

Can you give 1 reason why so? i keep getting a pop up to install and keep closing it. kinda happy with 8 as it stands right now.

[Andreauk]

I'm on win7 Ultimate and I got rid of that pesky win 10 popup. Happy how I am :)

[Dadjitsu]

between 8 or 10, then it has to be 10, 8 has a lot of compatibility problems which were addressed with 10, that is why 10 was given away free, because 8 was such a mess.
I run 10 on 2 different systems and I don't have any issues.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Can you give 1 reason why so? i keep getting a pop up to install and keep closing it. kinda happy with 8 as it stands right now.
Ok. Primary reason: the same family and friends that bitched incessantly about Windows 8 stopped bitching as soon as they upgraded to win 10. Win 8 was the touch interface/tablet beta release. Win 10 is the actual os that adds support for it without trying to force it down everyone's throat. There's a reason the uptake of Windows 8 was worse than Vista, notwithstanding how happy people were with win 7.

See also: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/windows-10-vs-windows-8-1

[Jimshaman]

Ok. Primary reason: the same family and friends that bitched incessantly about Windows 8 stopped bitching as soon as they upgraded to win 10. Win 8 was the touch interface/tablet beta release. Win 10 is the actual os that adds support for it without trying to force it down everyone's throat. There's a reason the uptake of Windows 8 was worse than Vista, notwithstanding how happy people were with win 7.

See also: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/windows-10-vs-windows-8-1

sounds good enough to me I'm sold. Download currently happening.

[Svpernova09]

Running 10 for about a week, only complaint so far is that the notifications sound volume isn't tied to the system sounds volume channel, it's tied to the global speaker volume channel. So everythings nice and quiet, and something throws a notification and it's holy shitballs loud.

[SauliusPlays]

Running 10 for about a week, only complaint so far is that the notifications sound volume isn't tied to the system sounds volume channel, it's tied to the global speaker volume channel. So everythings nice and quiet, and something throws a notification and it's holy shitballs loud.

I definitely had that problem! :)

I like Windows 10 but it did take a bit of getting used to. The privacy issue may put people off. Here's (http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-windows-10-privacy-settings-you-need-to-change-right-now-1301257) a random article. I personally took measures to reduce this as much as I could.

[EaTCarbS]

Windows 7 - If it aint broke, don't fix it!

[Bollwerk]

I jumped on the free 10 upgrade and haven't looked back since. =)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Having done some more playing around with various units, something I notice is that older hardware (e.g. 3rd-gen Intel Core systems/P67 and older chipsets) tend to show some quirks with power management and such. It's nothing terrible but Win7 was the last OS that really supported those 100%. Of course, those are End Of Life now so it's not surprising. The two 6th gen Intel systems I have both work flawlessly with 10.

[JohnGabriel]

Having done some more playing around with various units, something I notice is that older hardware (e.g. 3rd-gen Intel Core systems/P67 and older chipsets) tend to show some quirks with power management and such. It's nothing terrible but Win7 was the last OS that really supported those 100%. Of course, those are End Of Life now so it's not surprising. The two 6th gen Intel systems I have both work flawlessly with 10.

Microsoft tells us that we will need Windows 10 for all new generation chips starting with Skylake. All older versions of Windows no longer being supported after July 17 2017

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/01/18/windows-10-will-only-work-on-newest-pcs-says-microsoft.html

[luxlunae]

I'm a cranky old lady constantly telling people to get off my lawn about their fucking "upgrades" but 10 is great. Once you neuter popup notifications entirely. And disable the search menu from going on the internet.

[confusedtx5]

I prefer win7 currently. If you like 7 I'd say stick with it.
If you're on 8 or 8.1, definitely worth the upgrade.
I installed the win10 upgrade within the first 24 hours of it going live. I was plagued with bluescreens after the first week.
The main problem with it i see for most people is lack of control over the automatic updates. Imagine it deciding to download updates when you're in the middle of a wow session. Watch your latency skyrocket if you don't have decent internet.
10 should have better graphical performance. I plan to be on it hopefully for legion levelling. 5x 2560x1600 res windows is graphically very demanding.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I prefer win7 currently. If you like 7 I'd say stick with it.
If you're on 8 or 8.1, definitely worth the upgrade.
I installed the win10 upgrade within the first 24 hours of it going live. I was plagued with bluescreens after the first week.
The main problem with it i see for most people is lack of control over the automatic updates. Imagine it deciding to download updates when you're in the middle of a wow session. Watch your latency skyrocket if you don't have decent internet.
10 should have better graphical performance. I plan to be on it hopefully for legion levelling. 5x 2560x1600 res windows is graphically very demanding.

I definitely had some issues with the upgrade to win10 until NVidia got the new drivers sorted out. Since then, I've had no issues with it. I've got my windows updates set to download and notify me when ready to install and I've yet to see anything odd with that. Then again, you'd probably never notice except for patch tuesdays [edit] unless you're on dial-up or satellite.

I have no truck recommending Win10 to friends and family now that I've been on it a few months.