Windows 7 or Windows 8?

[Konasumi]

Going to upgrade my desktop from Vista, and I need some help deciding between two OS's: Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. I can get either one for the same price, so that is not an issue.

 

I have experience with both OS's, and I like them both. I do like how Metro is not in 7, and that alone makes me lean towards 7 right now.

 

Can you guys help? Which would you get and why?

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Just get Windows 8 to be up to date, it's better than Windows 7 to me.

 

I don't know why people hate it.

[Ryan Leech]

Windows 8.1. There's no reason to get 7. 8.1 has more features and gives your system better performance.

[Anthony10]

Uh oh.... here we go again..

[GamerGuy]

I have used win7 for years until last year, bought a laptop windows 8 , I really hate it. It's just not for me.

I feel like win7 is much more simple and doesn't have any added features that you most likely don't need.

[TheProfosist]

8.1 update 1 !!!!!

[Kevin_Walter]

Get 8.1. I use 7, personally, but you can turn off all of the stupid "Metro" crap that they tried to force on you in the first iteration of 8... so it's basically an improved version of 7 when you do that. Plus, you'd only be saving what, 10 bucks by going with 7?

 

So yeah... 8.1. Do that.

[Rhyn]

Just go with 8.1 at this point I believe you can avoid the tiles entirely without having to buy third party software essentially making it a better windows 7.

[evilmeister13]

get 8.1, install classic shell, and then its basically the same thing, but with better performance and features. My fps in games jumped by an average of about 10 when i upgraded from 7 to 8.1.

[MrBucket101]

8.1 w/ start8

[tacticalpanic]

Going to upgrade my desktop from Vista, and I need some help deciding between two OS's: Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. I can get either one for the same price, so that is not an issue.

 

I have experience with both OS's, and I like them both. I do like how Metro is not in 7, and that alone makes me lean towards 7 right now.

 

Can you guys help? Which would you get and why?

 

If you dont like the metro interface and are leaning towards 7 , just pick up windows 7 , the performance differences are vastly overstated. WIndows 7 is the most supported OS in the world due to its marketshare at this point and you'd be getting 6 years of support.

[Galgotha]

With DX12 coming I am almost going to bet MS is going to do the same as DX11 to XP and not make it run at all or not as optimized with W7 verse W8. Don't put it past them to force upgrade gamers as they have in past. W8.1 or end of summer 8.2 will have start menu back and then your running most current supported OS and it does have performance/stability benefits that Metro UI haters try and state aren't there but benchmarks show are specially for multicore heavy productivity software less for dual core limited gaming software. 

[bac06]

It's all about personnal preference.

 

Tried windows 8.1 for 6 months,, worst perfomance on all of my games exept bf4.

 

Reverted to windows 7 and I'm really happy with it.

 

The only down to me with windows 7 is the increased boot time, but it's so much better than windows 8.1 so it's worth it.

[canadianultra]

I switched to 8.1 from 7, and I was skeptical at first, but it is much better, + my motherboard has a lot of features that only work on 8

 

I would suggest adding a poll 

[Sharp_3yE]

I have used win7 for years until last year, bought a laptop windows 8 , I really hate it. It's just not for me.

I feel like win7 is much more simple and doesn't have any added features that you most likely don't need.

I hope you installed windows 8.1 update. Secondly, if you don't like the start screen (I don't know how many times I've said this and wrote this to people) then download a start menu. BOOM everything is fixed. 8.1 even will be able to boot to the desktop. No problems what so ever. Use it just like windows 7. Download Classicshell. Also, windows 8.1 is soon getting a start menu and it will be able to put modern style apps in a window.

[Sharp_3yE]

With DX12 coming I am almost going to bet MS is going to do the same as DX11 to XP and not make it run at all or not as optimized with W7 verse W8. Don't put it past them to force upgrade gamers as they have in past. W8.1 or end of summer 8.2 will have start menu back and then your running most current supported OS and it does have performance/stability benefits that Metro UI haters try and state aren't there but benchmarks show are specially for multicore heavy productivity software less for dual core limited gaming software. 

MS announced that DX12 is coming to windows 7. So, no worries really there. It will be fun to see if there is a difference in performance between the two systems.