I have a friend who has a Dell desktop with Windows 8.
It doesn’t have a touch screen and looks almost exactly like Windows 7.
I don’t know about the internal workings, but anyone who is using Windows 7 would feel right at home.
There are numerous apps out there to disguise the POS Win8 GUI as a Win-7 lookalike, but at the end of the day, it’s just putting lipstick on a pig.
Simple fix...download start8 from stardock. It’s just like windows 7 but better.