>Windows 8.1 >Start8 >Can CHOOSE which updates I install >No Cortana using 85MB of RAM >No telemetry >No botnet >No automatic driver updates >SSD is fully optimized on 8.1 unlike 7 >Memory is better optimized on 8.1 than 7 as well >Motherboard drivers actually supported >All the speed and aesthetics of Windows 10 >All the stability and desktop friendliness of Windows 7
Why aren't you using Windows 8.1 with Start8 Sup Forums?
How good is 8.1 compared to 7? I may need to upgrade seeing how both Intel and AMD are about to pull the trigger on 7.
Adrian Wilson
10/10 would let her nibble on my neck
Michael Taylor
>Prove it >Microsoft.com
and now prove it.
Ayden Carter
>posting my webm (。>﹏
James Gonzalez
i use 8.1 but i like 7 better because some old software misbehaves on 8.1
Cooper Jones
>her
Colton Sanders
Because I use Classic Shell
Connor Roberts
What a cute girl (male)
Joshua Jones
stop posting
Luke Nelson
what theme?
Joshua Smith
Soft8.1 by Neiio
Jace Torres
i'd bet 90% of people on g right now have been here less than a month
Christian Clark
I use 8.1 with the original start menu, I don't get why people were so upset about the new full screen start menu, when in practice I only use it about once a week and while starting up go straight to the desktop anyway. For keyboard combo's it's still functionally the same.
Ok, the tablet swipe down sidebar thing is pretty dumb tho.
Chase Ramirez
>Windows 10 >StartIsBack++ >Can CHOOSE which updates I install >No Cortana, disabled in GPEdit >No Telemetry thanks to Spybot >No Botnet thanks to Spybot >SSD is fully optimized on 10 unlike 8.1/7 >Memory is better optimized on 10 than 8.1/7 as well >Motherboard drivers (who even uses those lmao) actually supported >All the speed and aesthetics of Windows 10 >All the stability and desktop friendliness of Windows 7
Why aren't you using Windows 10 with StartIsBack++ OP?
Cooper Brown
>closed source
Jeremiah Morgan
Citation needed
Lucas Price
unless you are on enterprise or ltsb you can not turn off telemetry, the settings are a lie and vming win10 in a linux condom shows you this
Isaiah Hughes
Im not doubting you but care to link a test about that? Im intrested on how much there is actual telemetry
Jaxson Baker
Is ltsb for gaming? Game performance OK or Not?
David Foster
>tfw been here since 2008
Chase Perez
>all the aethetics of Windows 10 When was the last time you actually used W10?
Jacob Ortiz
>Not using Windows 10 LTSB
OP is officially the most retarded person on this board.
Charles Cox
You can't turn off the spying even with Enterprise LTSB
Thomas Brooks
I wont doubt it, but are you able to show it? got someone vming it in linux so it can see what's being sent?
Adrian Scott
Wrong.
Luis Richardson
Worst case scenario its on a slightly different version of windows 10 so you get aub 3% performance difference between 10 normal and 10 less shitty.
every single thing you type sents some packet out everything you write sends your handwriting to microsoft every file you open sends data to them
there is one video where the person 'decrypts' the packets to see what was sent but that has to be fake.
then you have microsoft disguising its servers as common program names you may have, like on a fresh install sending data out to game devs or av makers... these are microsoft servers named to hide who is getting sent shit.
really fucking shitty
wish I liked linux in the least as I could jump ship and not care.
Christopher Phillips
No u
Jack Collins
Like I said, I would not doubt it in the slightest, but you need to condom the os for us and show us.
Incorrect, it was added to 8.1 and 7 unless you carefully avoided the "updates"
Use the spybot anti phonehome bullshit thingy
Alexander Allen
not something I could do in os, have to do it at router, and my router... I'm to stupid to set the fucking firewall up on it and refuse to use cli for it.
It only has telemetry if you have updated sense then... I honestly don't think I have had update turned on since before windows 10 was in the upgrade for free stage.
The one I was looking for showed the os sending each keystroke to microsoft, but its fucking buried among the fucking youtubers using placebos.
James Peterson
>2015 beta tester release lol
Owen Ramirez
Anzu is a grill(female)
Henry Morales
>can't use Win8 on Kaby Lake
That's why :( 8.1 was so comfy, but upgrading to Kaby Lake from Sandy Bridge killed all my hopes and dreams.
David Sanchez
Nice meme. You're talking about the internet search feature, which can be disabled completely during the install or later
Matthew Peterson
I used it for a while, but now I switched. I no longer need windows for anything but games, so I use 10 because who gives a shit anymore.
If I -had- to use Windows though, I would use 8.1
James Mitchell
I mean if I had to use Windows exclusively.
Juan Davis
8.1 is superior to 7 if you're not chimping out about the start menu.
Luis Lewis
But I already am since 2015. Do I win something?
Jonathan Ramirez
It has the best defaults in terms of looks.
Sure it has that start menu, but I don't like how flat everything is around 10, and Windows 7 glossy shit is really, really dated.
Ian Price
Literally no evidence
Liam Wright
*Cute Roachgirl ftfy
Juan Wilson
>have Raspberry Pi >have Pi-hole installed >have all Microshill telemetry servers blacklisted >can use whatever fucking Windows I want all yalls arguments are completely fucking invalid
Andrew Harris
>aesthetics of Windows 10 8,8.1 and 10 are just ugly. Every ramshackle Linux distro made by fat NEETs looks better.
Carson Kelly
I love Anzu!
Blake Howard
>be a cuck or a bigger cuck
Race to the bottom.
Ethan Ward
Windows 8.1 is the best platform for media currently and sure is much better than 10 but still has too much tablet bullshit interface and lots of options reduced.