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For me I find the 8.1 experience the better, apps if you want them, traditional style desktop if you only want this
When I am using it in desktop mode (as today) I see no sign of any modern style apps/features, unless I need to use a program I rarely use and then I go to the start menu
When I do want to use an app I get the full app experience with no desktop elements getting in the way
Times move on though, and with 10 I will just adapt back to the full desktop orientated way of doing things
That's what any OS should really be all about, just a base to run programs from. It's all nice and dandy to have nice pictures on desktop wall or set programs starting from a most suitable place. Places where rarely anybody goes to, appart from Control Panel and Devices is not a real problem 'cause people going there should not have problems finding them, some knowledge is presumed.
Probably. It's not the 'OS from Hell' that some would have you believe.
My Vista (Ultimate 32-bit) setup is nothing flash, it chugs along quite nicely on an old Acer 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 HT with 1gb of RAM and a 256mb GeForce 5700 graphics card, and is mainly used as a print server and to run some older games and programs. It's never been connected to the internet since installing it about 4 years ago as an upgrade over an XP Pro setup, and it has been so reliable and problem-free that I only got around to downloading and installing the Vista service packs last week. Not that it really needed them, it always just chugged along perfectly happily without them... Vista was, like Win 8, unfairly maligned for all the wrong reasons, and is, if given the chance by an experienced user, a very good OS (but it can be somewhat novice-unfriendly at times).
Wenda.