8.1 was a very different os to 8. it was basically windows 10 light, all the features people were wowed by in 10 originated in 8 and were polished up in 8.1. it made the metro interface optional and brought back the start menu, improved performance, and was altogether a pretty pleasant experience.
I’m always impressed by the level of differences. Printer drivers were a real hassle with 8 and 8.1, and you never knew in advance which driver was for which.
Anything banned in China has some credibility with me, but it stopped receiving CPU compatibility updates in 2016 and after multiple extensions the last supported versions hit EOL in 2023.
Eh, that’s fine. I get that people are worried about EOL systems but, honestly, most of the time the concern seems overblown to me: it’s not like you are going to run these Windowses on baremetal and plugged directly into the root DNS gigabit ethernet line. When it comes to Windows, you run them in a VM and under a battery of safety measures such as firewalls and snapshots to begin with. And, once you’re bored with it, you return to Linux and the AUR.
Windows 8.1 exists.
…are you ok? 🤨
Edit: guess the .1 WAS significant! I sit corrected!
8.1. That’s different. It was also IIRC the last Windows version without any sort of AI, enforced telemetry or any of that crap.
8.1 was a very different os to 8. it was basically windows 10 light, all the features people were wowed by in 10 originated in 8 and were polished up in 8.1. it made the metro interface optional and brought back the start menu, improved performance, and was altogether a pretty pleasant experience.
Yup! Our family PC still runs 8.1 with Classic Shell. It’s just 10 but no Edge or ads, and using the fullscreen Settings app is optional.
I’m always impressed by the level of differences. Printer drivers were a real hassle with 8 and 8.1, and you never knew in advance which driver was for which.
Anything banned in China has some credibility with me, but it stopped receiving CPU compatibility updates in 2016 and after multiple extensions the last supported versions hit EOL in 2023.
Eh, that’s fine. I get that people are worried about EOL systems but, honestly, most of the time the concern seems overblown to me: it’s not like you are going to run these Windowses on baremetal and plugged directly into the root DNS gigabit ethernet line. When it comes to Windows, you run them in a VM and under a battery of safety measures such as firewalls and snapshots to begin with. And, once you’re bored with it, you return to Linux
and the AUR.