Quote Originally Posted by Assirra View Post
Yea well, the GUI is the thing you actually look at the whole time, so it kinda is very important.
Not to mention that straight up increased the amount of clicks required to do simple actions.
Quote Originally Posted by Gilraen View Post
A friend of mine bought a new computer recently, came with 8.1... they complain about the GUI all the time. I wish I could have offered them my install disk for 7, but it's a tailored OEM for my laptop. Wouldn't work.
Luckily changing the GUI to "almost win7"-style required one tiny 3rd-party program and about 10 minutes of work.
So yeah, the GUI is a legit complaint, but it doesn't make the system "suck".

Anyways 10 fixes the gui issue, so it's simply better than both 7 and 8.