is it just me or is Windows 8.1 a lot less buggy than 10?

[Ashleyyyy]

i installed Windows 8.1 on my laptop, and i have to say, it feels a lot more stable and less buggy than 10... is that just me?

[Automobili3XF]

I sincerelly think its the other way around, specially when it comes to network sharing (files, printers and such).

But i did like 8.1 though, used it for a rather long time before W10 came out.

[Lordclouds]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

i installed Windows 8.1 on my laptop, and i have to say, it feels a lot more stable and less buggy than 10... is that just me?

They don´t support it as much. So I doubt it is better

[voiha]

Windows 8.1 was ok, but Windows 10 has already better support and they fixed issues that are still present in Windows 8.1, So I would say at this point no.

It's like XP you could do 2 things, but do them good, everything else....welll

[Princess Luna]

It's probably just you, Win8 was as shitty as Win Vista.

[LinusOnLine]

I totally skipped Windows 8 and 8.1. In my opinion it was the worst Windows version ever made.

[Radium_Angel]

18 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

i installed Windows 8.1 on my laptop, and i have to say, it feels a lot more stable and less buggy than 10... is that just me?

It's not just you.

I have a laptop with Windows 9 (yes, it existed) which is based on 8.1 and it just doesn't give me any issues.

Win10 here at work...hundreds of systems, non-stop issues, especially after MS's patch cycle.

 

So yeah, Win8,1 is better than 10 in stability in my experience

[Radium_Angel]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

It's probably just you, Win8 was as shitty as Win Vista.

Vista's bad rap came from unreasonably low system requirements, and a rush to market (as *all* MS OSes suffer from)

Patch Vista fully, put it on proper hardware and it's no worse than Win7...

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

unreasonably low system requirements

Nah I tried it with appropriated hardware back then, it was still shit, so much I went back to XP until 7 came out.

[Sauron]

It wouldn't be susprising since it's had a lot more time to be patched...

[WereCatf]

For me, Windows 10 has been very stable and bug-free, and I have been using it since the first pre-releases.

[Ashleyyyy]

42 minutes ago, LinusOnLine said:

I totally skipped Windows 8 and 8.1. In my opinion it was the worst Windows version ever made.

how can you form a good opinion on it if yiu never used it seriously?

 

43 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

It's probably just you, Win8 was as shitty as Win Vista.

what's wrong with it then?

 

24 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

For me, Windows 10 has been very stable and bug-free, and I have been using it since the first pre-releases.

bug free hmm? open up search by clicking on the icon on the taskbar, close it with the same icon and now open it the same way on another thisplay. and poof, your taskbar on the original display will dissapear and come back. 

[LinusOnLine]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

how can you form a good opinion on it if yiu never used it seriously?

Probably from all the support I had to do for it. I never used it personally. That does meen I have not worked with it

[LinusOnLine]

1 minute ago, LinusOnLine said:

Probably from all the support I had to do for it. I never used it personally. That does meen I have not worked with it 

Forgot a not on that sentence  So it should read "That does not meen I have not worked with it "

[WereCatf]

53 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

bug free hmm? open up search by clicking on the icon on the taskbar, close it with the same icon and now open it the same way on another thisplay. and poof, your taskbar on the original display will dissapear and come back. 

You completely missed the "for me" there, didn't you? I don't have a second display and even if I did, I don't use the search by clicking on the icon, I just tap the Windows-key on my keyboard and start typing for whatever I want to search. Even that put aside, wow what a major fucking issue, a taskbar disappears and comes back!

[Ashleyyyy]

3 hours ago, WereCatf said:

You completely missed the "for me" there, didn't you? I don't have a second display and even if I did, I don't use the search by clicking on the icon, I just tap the Windows-key on my keyboard and start typing for whatever I want to search. Even that put aside, wow what a major fucking issue, a taskbar disappears and comes back!

Windows 10 home is more than €140 in my country. For that price, minor issues like that shouldn't exist, especially for a year like that one.

[TJ10]

I got better performance on my Laptop running windows 10 than when it was running Windows 7.

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I have heard others say that the demands were lower on 8.1 (disk IO mainly), and of course it lacks a lot of the garbage that's been added with 10 (ads, "spying" (well this varies with who you talk to), etc.)

 

I never personally used 8.1 though so I can't say.  I have seen and briefly played with Windows 8 though and thought it was totally stupid.  When 8.1 was announced all I had heard was they brought back the start button, so I had no intention of paying to upgrade to that.  I didn't see the value over 7.  I have seen screenshots of 8.1 though and imo it's absolutely hideous.  It's like a combination of two completely different visual styles so it is constantly clashing with itself.

 

When 10 was announced and offered for free I jumped on that and while there have been issues for sure, I'm reminded how much I like it when I have to go back to 7.  It feels like what going back to XP felt like after being used to 7 in terms of general conveniences.

[JoostinOnline]

On 10/17/2018 at 8:15 AM, Princess Cadence said:

Nah I tried it with appropriated hardware back then, it was still shit, so much I went back to XP until 7 came out.

It was terrible at launch, but post SP1 it worked great. Performance wasn't quite as good as Windows 7, but still very close.

[Ashleyyyy]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I have seen screenshots of 8.1 though and imo it's absolutely hideous.  It's like a combination of two completely different visual styles so it is constantly clashing with itself.

and Windows 10 isn't? open the control panel and metro settings app. totally different. edge is metro style too.. 

 

at least in 8.1 they are completely seperate. you don't need to use the metro UI at all if you don't want to. Windows 10 forces you to by having settings be metro UI

[vanished]

16 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

and Windows 10 isn't? open the control panel and metro settings app. totally different. edge is metro style too.. 

 

at least in 8.1 they are completely seperate. you don't need to use the metro UI at all if you don't want to. Windows 10 forces you to by having settings be metro UI

Windows 10 is pretty consistent visually.  Sure there's Metro/UWP apps and traditional Win 32, but from a visual design point of view, I'd say it's decently styled.

 

I mean, just look at this

 

And then this...

 

 

It's just... horrible.

There's a mix of Windows 10 style flat icons and UI elements with Windows 7 style realistic icons, the parts that are flat can't decide if they should be truly flat like Win 10 or go for a glass theme, and the borders are so t h i c c

It honestly looks like an unfinished beta in progress.  And yes, you could counter with the control panel vs "Settings" in Win 10, and be totally right in doing so but I'm talking form, not function.  Sure they are two distinct looks but they are two sides of the same coin, instead of a coin and an elephant.