Unpopular opnion: windows 8.1 is the best version of winshit

prove me wrong. protip: [spoiler]you can't[/spoiler]
ONLY people who used 8.1>10>7>8>vista

Bitch please, Vista/7 kicks 8.1's ass.

Windows is the best. Now give me the rupees you promised me

Do you happen to have an extra chromosome OP?

B-but muh privacee to store cp
Sup Forums can't approve an OS without that

i like 8.1 better than 7. i'm using it right now

i don't know about 10 desu

Only if you're using it with touch.

this except 7

8.1 w/ classic shell >>> 7 > 10 >>> 8.1

Prove me wrong. Protip: You can't.

Nah, XP and Win7 were the best by default. Win 8.1 wasn't that bad with classic shell though.

Vista was a fine OS. Used it from launch day and had no more issues with it than XP.

/thread

I don't know how people can stand to use W7, it's just sluggish compared to 8.1/10.

Windows 8.1 still has a start screen so it can't be the best.

Vista had the best UI it just had a shitty kernel and they didn't work out the bugs, All they needed to do was slap vista's UI on 7 and it would have been the perfect OS.

>All they needed to do was slap vista's UI on 7 and it would have been the perfect OS.

What? It's like 90% the same. Fuck are you on about?

I took advantage of the free upgrade to windows 10 yesterday from 8.1 and it has a cleaner feel along with the start screen shitshow from 8.1 gone

Vista and 7 are only better in an I hate change sort of way.

I like 8.1 with classic start shell

Change that improves is good. Change for its own sake is bad. Windows 8.1 with its boxy square start screen is change for its own sake and therefore bad.

Not all change is good, and the changes in 8 and 10 were bad.

The problem is that 8/8.1 was really good for touch screens, but not for desktops with M&KB only. 10 is worse for both.

>i like 8.1 better than 7. i'm using it right now

8.1 is a fucking mess.

Shitty driver support. Takes forever to install vs w10.

I think I'm starting to catch the Windows 10 disease...

This tile thing is getting addictive. Fuck you microsoft. u got me again.

I use this and it's still bad. On occasion the right swipe menu will come out for no reason, and when you try to open a file with an unrecognized extension it brings up the metro UI for choosing the program.

WHY DO THE ICONS NEED TO BE SO LARGE
WHY CAN'T MICROSHIT JUST GIVE US A NORMAL FUCKING MENU

>tfw 8.1 with Start8
It's basically like an improved 7.

Because touch-users

They were designed to serve ads.

Only had trouble installing specific drivers for a netcard on win 8.1, worked out of the box but for better performance I had to get a 3rd party driver (used iobit's driver software to grab it for me) and works like a charm.

There is no need for a start menu in 2016, it was a list of shortcuts from the beginning, which belong on your desktop.

>Making things bigger is worse for mice and keyboards

But it would make clicking things easier too senpai. Nothing is bad about using 8.1 without touch.

It's inefficient.

You can just use the small icons, and you don't have to use them in the first place, idiot.

>WHY DO THE ICONS NEED TO BE SO LARGE

Are you actually retard?

Do you not see the small icon variability in my wallpaper? It was my choice to make some of them big.

>install a start menu program
>8.1 now behaves exactly like windows 7 but performs much better
wew

True, he is an idiot.

But I will admit that W10 forces you to use icons (indirectly). There's no way you can customize the menu without them.

VISTA > 8 > 10/7
fucking hell, 7 is just a slower worse version of Vista
and 8 is better with more features and faster

classic shell is dumb though.

It defeats the entire purpose of going to w10 since 7 is extremely fast already.

It's really not though, even 8.1 is noticeably faster.

Considering the last windows is literally the worst fuckup in history of fuckups, and Win7 and all those before it are being rapidly deprecated, then yes. It's the best winshit right now.

>ITT: Normies who can't take 10-20 minutes out of their boring mundane lives to set up their OS to their liking

You can even theme it to look just like 7, with glass effects and all

>7 skin for 8.1

Fucking stupid, what is the point?

None really, I wouldn't use it, the whole point of using Windows 8 is for Aero to fuck off, I'm just bring it up so that "muh solid colors square corners" faggots don't pretend that's a reason 7 is any better

tbqh, I thought 8 had the best looking title bars to date. Minimal but not too blocky looking. 10 looks like complete trash in comparison.

Don't quote me on this but maybe, just maybe, there are people who like that look.

My point being you may as well have just installed 7. You gain too little with 8 for it to matter if you care that much about aesthetics.

Nice taste in Windows versions OP, literally me

8.1 > 10 > 7 > 8 > ReactOS > xp > poop > vista

Because aero glass is fucking beautiful, that's the point. Even if you don't agree with me, you can at least understand that some people prefer it right?

But that's wrong

Better boot times

DX11

Games in general also just seem to run 10-20fps better if you're into that kind of thing

You need to be over 18 to post on Sup Forums.

>It's really not though, even 8.1 is noticeably faster.

genuinely the most retarded wives' tale on Sup Forums.

Win 8.1 and Win10 is NOT noticeably faster than Win7. It's virtually the same fucking speed on an SSD.

Win10 and Win8 just have fancier effects going on.

win8.1 is probably the best currently, win10 would've been the best if not for the spying and other shady shit MS are doing to push it. win7 was good but there far too much nostalgia and retardation all because they couldn't handle a different start menu

>God-King Lucifer
right back at you kiddo.