LAPTOP OS WORTH CHANGING?

[Tera]

So here is the deal, i got my laptop a pretty and magnificent beast, ROG ASUS and my WIFE got an ALIENWARE M17

now here's the catch we both bought ours 2nd hand -pretty good price for both- , and they were running Windows 8. Around 2 years ago.

 

Now both are almost the same running an i7, Nvidia GeForce 940M, and about 8 gbs RAM DDR3 - mine is 6, hers is 8 -

So i tried the FREE UPDATE to WINDOWS 10 thingy that pop up, and to keep the story short i feel that on the past months or so, compared to the 1st year they have become really buggy, stutters on games, and sometimes we both get the bluescreen with " : (   Something happened and your PC needs to restart ". So i grabbed mine and did a Factory Reset.

- Good thing is it runs smoothly and no signs bugs or stutters.

- Bad thing WINDOWS 8 SUCKS, the interface is just so BAD. 

- Neutral thing, i got back all the manufacture's programs to control the key and color lights on the laptop.. so i guess i didn't notice them missing, but just got them back again.

 

And here i'm wondering is it better to always leave the original manufactures OS, Factory OS, on laptops since they come with the specific drivers and controllers, OR is it worth to replace the OS with something new. Maybe not Windows 10, but Windows 7 ? 

PD: i did a clean install once on both WINDOWS 10, it helped for a while and then a few weeks later BAM same problems. So i'm wondering keep the original OS, factory installed OS or Change to something else?

PD2 : If you wonder how i got back to the original factory reset, i created a recovery USB to boot the factory image as soon as we got both laptops, each one has a respective USB. And if you read until this point thanks for your time and patience, please bear with me English is my 2nd language. Thanks for your time.

[ProjectBox153]

I always do a reinstallation of Windows. I’ve yet to see a preinstalled copy that works well. 

[Kyle_N]

Clean install Windows 10 with Media Creation Tool is always my recommendation.

 

Windows 10 isn't that different from 8 or 7 in that you'd get far fewer issues. Those sound like hardware issues, or if you're installing certain things that cause issues. The issue is almost never the OS itself, it's either the hardware being defective/damaged, or software that was installed afterwards.

 

Also, don't bother with manufacturer OS image, they usually include extra stuff that will do nothing more than slow down your PC. Windows 8 and 10 almost always include every driver you need, or will install it automatically through Windows Update.

[Tera]

1 hour ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I always do a reinstallation of Windows. I’ve yet to see a preinstalled copy that works well. 

You do a clean install on laptops? how well does windows finds the native drivers and controllers for hardware? I had to look up for each driver manually

 

[Kyle_N]

Just now, Tera said:

You do a clean install on laptops? how well does windows finds the native drivers and controllers for hardware? I had to look up for each driver manually

 

Windows 8 and 10 include universal drivers that work on basically every system. The installer will automatically load all the drivers it needs. 

 

Some non-essential things like microphone, camera, fingerprint reader, sound, touchscreen, won't be loaded immediately, but they'll be downloaded from Windows Update. But all the basics (display, networking, storage) work right away.

[Tera]

1 hour ago, DOGC_Kyle said:

Clean install Windows 10 with Media Creation Tool is always my recommendation.

 

Windows 10 isn't that different from 8 or 7 in that you'd get far fewer issues. Those sound like hardware issues, or if you're installing certain things that cause issues. The issue is almost never the OS itself, it's either the hardware being defective/damaged, or software that was installed afterwards.

 

Also, don't bother with manufacturer OS image, they usually include extra stuff that will do nothing more than slow down your PC. Windows 8 and 10 almost always include every driver you need, or will install it automatically through Windows Update.

Tried to do a clean install from a bootable DVD i had, but had to manually check for drivers and controllers, does Windows 10 does that automatically now?

Windows 10 is cleaner to look at than windows 8, really would haven't noticed if i didn't switched from 10 back to 8, i think 7 his the best right now, but most of the things and most support is found for windows 10 so i did the transition, but being stuck on windows 8 sucks.

On the hardware i ran some test's on the laptop and with individual parts on a separate benchmark i have, i'm a computer engineer or soon to be -just need my diploma- but on the topic all tests had positive results, no a single flawed part, on the programs themselves, pretty much the only thing we use them for is 
GAMING - Thru Steam

Watching Series or anime - Thru Netflix or CrunchyRoll
Browsing the internet - Google Chrome

and I myself edit videos, with adobe premiere, but nothing out of the ordinary.  

 

Didn't had that much of software added with the factory reset, just the keyboard lightning controller on both, but i will try to do a clean install for windows 10, are you sure it updates all drivers automatically?  
Will try my best, wish me luck fellow techies. and also thanks for your responses and time!

[Tera]

7 minutes ago, DOGC_Kyle said:

Windows 8 and 10 include universal drivers that work on basically every system. The installer will automatically load all the drivers it needs. 

 

Some non-essential things like microphone, camera, fingerprint reader, sound, touchscreen, won't be loaded immediately, but they'll be downloaded from Windows Update. But all the basics (display, networking, storage) work right away.

Awesome didn't knew that.
Thanks for your response and your time. Will try to do a clean install of Windows 10 wish me luck! 
Will try to report any findings here.

[ProjectBox153]

9 hours ago, Tera said:

You do a clean install on laptops? how well does windows finds the native drivers and controllers for hardware? I had to look up for each driver manually

 

Windows 10 does really good. It’s not hard though. 

[Kyle_N]

The only driver I would suggest installing manually is graphics - get it directly from AMD/NVIDIA.

 

Graphics drivers are updated frequently and while Windows Update WILL get the driver, it won't always install the latest version. It also might not install all features or applications for it.

 

 

And of course, any specialty devices, like audio interfaces, RGB software, motherboard devices, will usually need seperate software to work/configure, which Windows usually won't install.