I have Windows 8.1 at the moment, works fine for me but I am just wondering if it is a good time to upgrade to Windows 10, I mostly play games and was scared of compatibility issues arising. So yeah have things been ironed out with Windows 10 now? I think I remember the launch was a little bit rocky much like most other Operating Systems to be fair.
Time to upgrade to w10?
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If something worked in Windows 8/8.1 it will nearly always work in 10 too - I'm yet to find anything.
You can always roll back if you do find a game-breaking issue (literally in your case I guess), though you might as well take a system image using something like the free Macrium Reflect just in case the roll-back feature fails (I've not tried it but I've not heard of any issues either, but why not?).
You can always roll back if you do find a game-breaking issue (literally in your case I guess), though you might as well take a system image using something like the free Macrium Reflect just in case the roll-back feature fails (I've not tried it but I've not heard of any issues either, but why not?).
Okay, I might do it tonight, that upgrade icon is finally enticing me, I just thought I remember that at first release there were some issues at launch and was just wondering whether or not they had ironed the Operating System out or not.
There's perhaps a good case for sticking with Windows 7 if you have that installed and working nicely. There's much less of a case for sticking with Windows 8 / 8.1.
You're unlikely to have any major issues going from 8.1 to 10. Win 10 is pretty stable. I upgraded from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro and decided not to clean install as I didn't want to reinstall everything. I'm rather impressed how stable it is considering it's not a clean install AND I did a major hardware upgrade at the same time (I fully anticipated disaster but it went fine).
Win 10 isn't perfect, there's some privacy issues which you will need to nail down after the install by going into Settings and turning off all the nonsense that reports back to MS or shares your info with all and sundry. But overall it's a good version of Windows in the way that MS tends to have its own tick/tock of good version, bad version, good version etc.
You're unlikely to have any major issues going from 8.1 to 10. Win 10 is pretty stable. I upgraded from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro and decided not to clean install as I didn't want to reinstall everything. I'm rather impressed how stable it is considering it's not a clean install AND I did a major hardware upgrade at the same time (I fully anticipated disaster but it went fine).
Win 10 isn't perfect, there's some privacy issues which you will need to nail down after the install by going into Settings and turning off all the nonsense that reports back to MS or shares your info with all and sundry. But overall it's a good version of Windows in the way that MS tends to have its own tick/tock of good version, bad version, good version etc.