02-02-2017, 01:59 AM
Think of it like this:
Windows 7 = Snow Leopard (oldie, but goodie)
Windows 8 = Lion (too much, too fast)
Windows 10 = Mavs/El Cap (fixed the previous screw ups)
7 is old school, without being too old school, and not as resource intensive.
With 8, they tried new things and ended up with an ill-conceived, half-baked result.
With 10, they fixed a lot of those things, but it has much deeper hooks into the cloud, both visible, and disturbingly to some, invisible. But they also improved things under the hood, so it runs surprisingly well on old hardware. I found 10 handled limited RAM more gracefully, so that may be a consideration.
Windows 7 = Snow Leopard (oldie, but goodie)
Windows 8 = Lion (too much, too fast)
Windows 10 = Mavs/El Cap (fixed the previous screw ups)
7 is old school, without being too old school, and not as resource intensive.
With 8, they tried new things and ended up with an ill-conceived, half-baked result.
With 10, they fixed a lot of those things, but it has much deeper hooks into the cloud, both visible, and disturbingly to some, invisible. But they also improved things under the hood, so it runs surprisingly well on old hardware. I found 10 handled limited RAM more gracefully, so that may be a consideration.