Been using Linux Mint 17.2 for a while now. It’s nice.
And with it on a single 64bit proc, it’s faster than any windoze on a dual 64bit proc. Same ram.
Tried win10 on the 8.1 laptop. And then the speakers stopped working. Tried updating the sound driver NG. Switched back to 8.1. No thanks.
I would have switched Mint if the install would have worked. The live disk ran okay and it installed on VMWare player just fine, but my computer couldn’t find the OS after the REAL install.
So, back to Windows 7 until 2019 (end of support).