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Should I get Windows 8.1?

charlezprice
By charlezprice
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Personally I would stay with Windows 7 and wait till Windows 9 is released though if you want to try it and have a free key then try it out and see for yourself.

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you can and allowed to try, with one condition:

 

-Make sure you are ready to be disappointed.

 

I personally like Windows8, owning 1 laptop with Win8.1 Pro and 1 desktop with Win8.1 Pro as well but there are times that I'm so frustrated with it especially when I'm dealing with wireless connection.

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Yes, but with the addition of a start menu such as startisback+

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It's been proven to generally add more performance and run better, use less memory, use less hard disk on a clean install etc. Metro isn't for everyone and the metro apps are borderline useless on a desktop PC. But as Lord Gaben said, if you install a third party Start Menu ( I reccomend classic shell FYI http://www.classicshell.net/ ) you'll come to terms with it quite easily and reap the performance benefit. Many games for instance have shown to run at noticeably higher FPS on 8 rather than 7. 

This is what I think of Pre-Ordering video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp98SH3vW2Y

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I was in the same boat as you. I love windows 7 and did not want to change. I literally changed over to Windows 8.1 Pro today (mostly because of the key being only $29 on G2A). I actually enjoy it quite a bit so far as long as I use Startisback, if that was not case I would still be with windows 7. Its a nice change and for the most part everything is running faster. I say go ahead and switch on over or get a virtual machine and test it out first to see if you like it or not!

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