Windows 7 or Windows 8?

[Ahielia]

I also feel if I use W7 I'll miss out on performance increases

I lol'd.

Should W8 just be skipped?

Yes.

[Velev]

My personal advice to you, stay away from 8 and stick with 7. Who knows what will happen with 8 in the future, but for now i would stick with 7.

(Just a quick personal note to my friend D, cheers mate!)

[MisaCeliousa]

stay with 7, 8 should be avoided unless you want a touch monitor and trashes your mouse

[Claire_Pendragon]

With all the negative comments on win8, and horror stories, I was hesitent in getting win8, but the performance boost, how ever minimal, pushed me into getting win8.

Now that I have it, and messed with it, its really not a big deal even in the slightest. Any annoyance in comparison to win7, is so abysmally small, I have to say go for win8.

Every upgrade of windows annoys me with small things, as did XP, Vista, win7, and win8, and its just that the annoyances to win8 are harder to overlook, when the interface changes, but its so simple to work with/avoid its not even noticeable after 1 day with the OS.

[worldofneil]

In 8.1 the start menu is back.

Yes and no, the button is indeed back, but pressing it is exactly the same as pressing the Windows key - you get a fullscreen metro style menu come up.

[Will01]

Not entirely sure where you came up with 4gb.....I stated "with 8gb of ram".

It was an example, in your post you stated that Win8 uses less resources on your new PC. It stands to reason that if your new pc is indeed better than your old one (I assume it is, why else would you upgrade), it would have more resources to begin with, so win8 uses less of the more abundant resources would be common sense really.

[Princey]

Thank you all for your answers.

[Stryker]

I personally use W7, I have the upgrade for W8 but I don't want to deal with the headache of relearning and tweaking W8.

Performance gains are going to be fairly negligible between the two when it comes to running a game. So unless you're barely scraping by in terms of specs, use whatever you are most comfortable with.

I used to have vista and tons of people skipped over that for great reason, just wish I had done it too.

[Orophin]

A friend of mine was having issues with frequent 90000 disconnects while on Windows 8. He went back to Windows 7 and that frequency has maybe dropped to 1 per night at best.