I had to get a new computer and it came with Win 8. I honestly have had no problem with it. It took some getting used to, but it’s worked fine for me. No, I am NOT a shill for Microsoft. I would have preferred to keep my Win 7, but this will do.
I have had only one issue with 8.0 so far and that was after installing openvpn. It jacked the registry so I could not delete or modify nic devices correctly, something like that. I did an inplace reinstall and have been fine ever since. I do wish they could quite putting the banner on my screen to update to 8.1 though. If I can download the media I might do it, but I don’t want to get involved with their store.