Quote Originally Posted by Princey View Post
Need some help here. Having some issues with Windows 8 and I don't like the UI and Metro and lack of the start button, but I also feel if I use W7 I'll miss out on performance increases and stuff.

What does everyone reccomend? Does it really matter? Should W8 just be skipped?
There's some minor differences, but for the sake of playing a game, they're not relevant ones. (The video card drivers you get for Windows 7 are often the same ones for W8 and W8.1) , Network card drivers are more different however. Not that I think that would change anything.

I'd think that windows 8 is more bloated because of that awful Metro interface, but all the underlying stuff for it also exists in Windows 7 except the interface itself, so that doesn't really mean much.

If buying a new computer, everyone will eventually have to take whatever future version of Windows exists, but for now I'd avoid Windows 8 unless it comes with the system, which if it does, then it's pointless downgrading.