Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-3547390-20180129154748

Punishment for not completing your objectives is to reverse the space time continuum and force you to do it again. Punishment for not registering is being shot.

Wow, that is quite a mess indeed. I pretty much won the monitor lottery with every monitor I got. Either that or I am just good at not noticing the flaws.

That is pretty much how it works. I lived on Win7 for years, but Win7 feels slightly awkward due to the little things in 8.1. The biggest thing is the taskbars. In Windows 7, you only have a taskbar on the main monitor, which means you can only access it by navigating to whichever is designated the main one. In Windows 8.1, you can retain this behavior, but can also make it set up for every monitor (either with stuff only on that matter or everything together). Really makes it convenient, there is no real designated main monitor besides the notification area.

Basically this means on Windows 7 I am now often dragging to the bottom to get the taskbar (since I am a minimalist, very little is on my desktop, I rely entirely on the start menu/search bar to access most things), only to realize I am not on my main monitor. Plus sometimes folders get messed up in the view display, meaning I get thumbnails when I want a list, and I will have to go to the tiny buttons to change it back rather than CTRL+1 and CTRL+2.

Nothing you can live without, but little tiny details that I find myself missing on 7. A lot of the features removed, like libraries and the Windows Experience Index, were just features I never really found a use for and tended to bother me due to just being a useless feature I always saw. So 8.1 works because it keeps everything I like while improving some small things under the hood. The biggest issue is the longer setup, it is more of a pain to get in a usable state than 7. So 7 is good for just installing without headaches, while 8.1 is pretty much my ideal setup.

CPU is prime real-estate, you can never really get enough usage, even with the best ones out there. So going with the most lightweight OS also helps. Windows 8.1, I can confirm, is less resource intensive than 7. Not something you would generally notice, but it is a benefit when you are pushing your computer to its limit, since 8.1 means I can go a bit more. Windows 10 is more resource intensive than either, which is just something I dislike. The update issues are scary, especially since there are horror stories of settings being ignored, you basically have multiple control panels like Windows 8.1 (As much as Apps were pushed in 8.1, once set up right, you pretty much can live on 8.1 without touching a full-screen app; the only time I might even touch one is if I wish to change my user account picture. Apps are one of the worst things about 8.1, they feel very clunky, and the defaults are so horrendous it will feel like you got a cheap bootleg of Windows 7), but only one right way to do things.