Now that W10 is out, are you a W7 / W8 refusenik?

[qubit]

So, are you gonna stick with W7 / W8 for as long as possible like with XP refuseniks previously, or are you gonna jump to W10?

I gotta try it out a bit more, plus how good DX12 is and how well it's supported matters significantly, too.

Let's see your votes in the poll and you can select up to three categories.

 

[LightningJR]

I had the insider preview on my laptop and now the full build, I don't plan on going back. My desktop still has Win7 because of the SHIT drivers my keyboard uses. I had Win10 on it and couldn't get the stupid keyboard to work..... So back to Win7 until I get a better keyboard.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

Upgrading to Windows 10 as soon as the reservation thing lets me.

 

[Shou Miko]

I will stick with my Win 8.1 Pro until i change to Skylake platform than I will install Win 10 Pro already got the iso ready and running Win 10 Pro on my gaming laptop works fine no driver issues at all other than Clevo's airplane mode thing that don't really work bcs of shitty drivers didn't even work in 8.1 xD

 

[Aquinus]

I've been on Windows 7 Pro for a long time and I've been happy with it. Given how 8 was a flop and 8.1 reversed a lot of the mistakes, I had a feeling that 10 was going to be an improvement. On top of that, WDDM 2.0 offers a little performance bump which I'm all for. For an upgrade, it ran really fast and has caused zero problems so far. Incredibly smooth for a Windows upgrade.

So no, I felt this was another "XP and Windows 7" like release, so I went for it.

 

[Blue-Knight]

I consider Windows 10 a valid alternative... If I was a Windows user I would move to it.

LOL!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

My original plan was to wait until I upgrade hardware. No sense going through Windows 10 update if it will only be used for a few weeks or month.

 

[newtekie1]

For my main rig I'm sticking with Win8.1 For now. I'll probably convert over a few of my other rigs.

 

[Liquid Cool]

I voted yes. I'm using software that was designed for Windows XP, but will run on 7 decent enough, although... it refuses to run on 8.1 without graphical glitches, freezing etc. It's a proprietary Technical Analysis software that was written back in 2002, but still works perfectly for my needs.

So...my workstation and my main laptop will be sticking with Windows 7 as long as possible. My other laptops run linux or windows 8.1 and I'll definitely upgrade one of them after I feel the kinks are out of win 10.

Best,

Liquid Cool

 

[GreiverBlade]

testing on the laptop (instead of 8.1) and keeping the main rig under 7 Pro for a moment until i see some more

 

[turbo098]

i upgraded as soon as it let me. my miix 2 11 tablet was first then my desktop. my tablet runs very well on it and i get about one more hour of battery life. the desktop updated fine but the sata ahci controller drivers needed to be reinstalled and after that all is well.

 

[natr0n]

think I will stick it out with win10, have a few issues with audio not working on reboots. using hacked up x-fi drivers

Previously (last week)I was using windows 7 and let it update(which I never do much) then it asks to reboot boots to bsod and was no way around it.

Anyways its a very snappy OS, I did a clean install via usb

 

[manofthem]

I had to Google "refusenik"

Upgrading first pc now, already rebooted and is installing 10. I'm looking forward to 10

 

[rtwjunkie]

I am going to wait it out a few months, due to several things that concern me. One, I like my Soundblaster Z sound card, and Creative is still working on drivers. The other is I am awaiting the return to manual driver updates, so I can choose manufacturer drivers, which normally work better and are newer. At the very least, I want to see the GPU forced drivers stop first especially problems getting geforce experience to install when MS has mucked that up and it's only the latest Nvidia driver coming through(which isn't always the best one).

I'm not shrill or fanatical about it, just being practical. At this point, there are no DX12 games, and my performance is just fine with DX11, so I can afford to wait a bit. Even so, since I'm not planning on staying with this hardware forever, I might just buy W10 so I have a retail copy, not an upgrade tied to my current motherboard.

 

[Zakin]

I may not totally understand if it is WDDM 2.0 doing it, but I used to casually underclock my CPU to 1.6-1.7Ghz on desktop just cause I could with minimal lag in Windows 7. Now when I do it in 10, it's still just as silky smooth, I'm really impressed with the general UI snappiness gains, it's almost as nice as when I first got a SSD years ago. (Glad that my hacked Asus STX drivers worked flawlessly between 7 to 10, so no driver worries there.)

 

[95Viper]

I am going to do the wait and see...
I am on the fence on this one.

 

[Hillbilly]

I'm waiting it out for a while. The inability to turn off automatic driver updates (graphics specifically) without additional software is a big turn off for me. Also Microsoft is dropping Media Center with Windows 10. I use it a lot. I'm hoping a bunch of people hold off and gets Microsoft to cave on these issues I have with Windows 10. Probably won't happen though.

 

[RealNeil]

I've had the preview all along and will probably run Win-10 on that PC. But for now, everything else stays on Win-7.

Once issues pop up and are resolved I'll switch.

 

[johnspack]

Not going to vote, I use all.. but Win7 for now will always be the host... hopefully Win10 won't remain forever the guest.

 

[Atomic77]

I am staying put with windows 8.1 which came with this computer. My HP Envy 700-414 is doing really well right now I haven't even had it a year yet.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

...foolish question is foolish?

The thread topic is whether we refuse to update to an unproven new OS, which demonstrably needs some patching before it can be considered a viable option for everyone. Whether people remember it or not, XP sucked in the beginning and Windows 7 only skipped the sucking phase because it was Vista 2.0 (a huge bloody nose for MS). 8.0 followed the pattern of an OS absolutely blowing chunks on release (if the #1 download for your new OS is removing the new GUI you've really managed to screw the pooch), and its next real release being much better (8.1 isn't what I'd recommend personally, but it isn't something I'd immediately remove, like 8.0).


So what you are asking is whether or not we'll be free beta testers for the next "released" MS OS. Nope. The whole beta program isn't something I can deal with. Once the OS has removed the various bumps along the road (and boy does 10 still have issues to deal with), and it'd be a product I'd pay for, I'll upgrade. Right now, it's a gamble with very little potential payoff. Windows 7 is doing well on all of my computers, with the exception of a few laptop which still require XP. God, Allen Bradley software sucks.

 

[Frick]

Dunno, I haven't really used it much, but I suppose I will eventually. It would benice if I could use the Windows 7 key on another machine or in a VM for support purposes.

 

[johnspack]

I agree with lil... needs time.....

 

[flmatter]

yes and no
I will keep Win7 on my desktop and install Win10 on my laptop, then after a while if I like Win10 and the drivers get better then I will upgrade to Win10 on my desktop

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

Keeping 7 on my desktop, only reason I would consider upgrading to 10 would be for DX12