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Hi guys! I'll be buying a new laptop & the seller asks me if I want Windows 8 installed or Windows 7 Home Premium? I've read some negative feedbacks about Windows 8 regarding it being still unstable and not really good for gaming. I appreciate your feedbacks :D

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Well, like I said a couple of times in different topics, windows 8 is perfectly usable.

It runs really smooth, a lot smoother than windows 7 (this is own experience on my laptop, been using it a couple of months now. SInce developer preview :P)

 

BUT:

 

You either have to adjust to the fullscreen menu (which I can't adjust too) or have to 'fix' that part yourself with start8 (brings the startbutton back, cost 5dollar => classicshell does the same for free, but is harder to setup). I'm using that fix and I never see that fullscreen menu ^^

 

Besides that there are a couple of other things that personally :

- If you put bordercolor to black (which I always do), the title becomes unreadable...

- Lack of adjusting the inactive window color (now it always light gray)

- Borders is stupidly thick (fixed with this little non-install program)

 

Like you can see, the only real problems I have with win8 are some of the UI design decisions. Which are for the most part fixable (or will be fixable in the near future).

I really love it for how smooth it runs and the fact the driver support seems to improved even more (and the new task manager ^^).

 

In the end: programs won't run faster on win8 than on win7, but win8 itself (boot time and stuff) runs faster than win7. Is it worth the switc: maybe if you can live (or fix) the new UI.

For gaming it doesn't matter, performance is about the same (that being said, I only got w:et on my laptop. I don't game on laptops :P)

Personally, with above fixes I would recommend win8 though. Without, go for win7.

 

i would say Windows 7 ( personal ) because i dont like windows 8 ) if i could i would go back to Windows Vista because it runs smooth,....

 

Da f***, vista and smooth. That OS was a mess :o. Windows 7 is basicly the fixed version of vista :P

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Da f***, vista and smooth. That OS was a mess :o. Windows 7 is basicly the fixed version of vista :P

 

 

my laptop runs windows 7 and i use it for school, movies, music,....( tryed playing games on it, then i would say Windows Vista is better )

i play games on this computer, windows vista, everything runs very smooth, opens internet in a second, ET runs without lagg,....

so im not having problems with Windows Vista

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my laptop runs windows 7 and i use it for school, movies, music,....

i play games on this computer, windows vista, everything runs very smooth, opens internet in a second, ET runs without lagg,....

so im not having problems with Windows Vista

 

Yeah, but choices Vista above win7...

Good for you that it runs decently, but win7 > Vista.

 

Opening internet and gaming isn't the problem with vista, UAC and drivers were (can't say if it's still a mess, haven't used it in years :P).

All my pcs running win7 now, even the once that came with vista (2 laptops). Good that I got all my OS for free :P

 

 

Windows 8 UI, that I don't like. it's suitable for touchscreens, Lenovo Y480 isn't a touchscreen.

 

The reason, I gave the solution for that.

I also really don't like it :P

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Yeah, but choices Vista above win7...

Good for you that it runs decently, but win7 > Vista.

 

Opening internet and gaming isn't the problem with vista, UAC and drivers were (can't say if it's still a mess, haven't used it in years :P).

All my pcs running win7 now, even the once that came with vista (2 laptops). Good that I got all my OS for free :P

 

but what i said in first post, its personal :P maybe some people like windows 7 or 8 above Vista but i dont :P

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but what i said in first post, its personal :P maybe some people like windows 7 or 8 above Vista but i dont :P

 

yeah, but I don't see how games can run better on vista than on win7 :P

Which games are we talking about than...

 

ps. Pianist, sorry for going offtopic so fast, but I need an answer to this.

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yeah, but I don't see how games can run better on vista than on win7 :P

Which games are we talking about than...

 

ps. Pianist, sorry for going offtopic so fast, but I need an answer to this.

 

Wolfenstein and WoW :P

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Well, had/have both running smooth on win7.

So, I going to call it bad luck from your part :P

 

lol im fine with Windows Vista :P

im thinking about plugging in my oldest computer with windows 98 :P

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If you want to run old software, go for Windows 7. Perfectly reliable. If you are not afraid for changes, get Windows 8. It's just better. It always / obviously has disadvantages, but the real disadvantage for a number of people is the full screen start menu. Trust me, either that'll work just fine or DrJoske has a few apps which will solve it :)

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I loved the layout of windows 8. i know people didn't like it, but even without a touch screen it is great IMO.

 

I had problems with gaming and drivers. After installing the windows 8 drivers for my hardware and also installing my games, the games would crash and at a couple times windows 8 wouldn't even start up. Also I found that windows 7 runs smoother, but that could just be because of the problems I had with the drivers.

 

That is just my experience, I'll try it again later because I rlly do like the layout.

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