It took me a while to get my updates done but windows 10 is actually much better than 8. I am a visual learner and have created web pages, had to help others with 8 and 10 (not much) and getting around 8 for the first time was very hard for me. Windows 10 gave me some fits but it was because the monitor settings keep reverting to a larger size and the left side of the windows program was off screen. If I had 8, and wasn’t stressed, I would probably upgrade.
The reason I don’t go from 7 to 10 is paranoia about gathering info and rumors of not being able to run older software. I use adobe CS4 and am very afraid to lose that.
I will never “upgrade” to Windows 10, at least not for the foreseeable future. When I did, or tried, back in July, it was a complete mess (from Windows 7).
It was running perfectly but in 10, the machine wouldn’t stop with a crippling screen flicker. It was so bad it wouldn’t let me click on the Start menu to shut down! I had to use Ctrl+Alt+Del to force the task manager to “shut down”. I let it sit for a good hour in that sorry state hoping for some kind of update or something that would fix the problem but nothing but the continual flickering.
I think the cause was an incompatibility between Windows 10’s default video driver (which at least at that time Win 10 was forcing use of that) and the video card I have (nVidia GeForce GTX 770) which wanted/needed to use its own driver from nVidia. This was a known issue at the time but I foolishly “upgraded” anyway (in my defense the issues reported centered around multiple monitors being used with GeForce cards and Windows 10; I thought maybe it wouldn’t happen with ONE monitor).
Anyway I’m not trying again until I see/hear this specific issue has been addressed by Windows, and yes it’s their fault because 10 forced the use of Windows drivers over manufacturer specific ones. So they need to stop that before I go to 10 (on my Windows 7 machine)
I will say though a laptop I bought recently (a cheap-o at Bestbuy for $250, I just couldn’t resist that price for a laptop) has Windows 10 pre installed and it works fine. So I’d say a machine with a “pure” Windows 10 install should be fine. But don’t “upgrade”.