Windows 10
I've been through an upgrade to Win10 and back to Win7 this week.
I like Win10, and it seems that most "phone home" features can be switched off or blocked (Spybot Anti Beacon) these days. But the performance was shocking on my machine. Sims3 was unplayable. Whenever the CPU was at or near full load the whole system felt slow and clumsy, the mp3s playing in the background started stuttering, playing youtubes in the background while playing sims was unthinkable. It really felt like one of my 2 cores went missing over night. So, after 5 days of testing I rolled back to Win7.
I kinda like the OS, but absolutely can't recommend it for below-average machines.
I like Win10, and it seems that most "phone home" features can be switched off or blocked (Spybot Anti Beacon) these days. But the performance was shocking on my machine. Sims3 was unplayable. Whenever the CPU was at or near full load the whole system felt slow and clumsy, the mp3s playing in the background started stuttering, playing youtubes in the background while playing sims was unthinkable. It really felt like one of my 2 cores went missing over night. So, after 5 days of testing I rolled back to Win7.
I kinda like the OS, but absolutely can't recommend it for below-average machines.
@Consort1 -- same here. I have a quad core CPU and 16 GBs of RAM. Windoze 10 still had problems and Call of Duty didn't play well at all. It even broke old COD2 and I cannot get it to re-install (compatibility mode or any other mode). So 10 is definitely not ready for prime time. Uninstalled it and I'm back to Win 7 Pro. Still cannot get COD2 to install though.
Windows 10 has been on my system since it was made available and I love it. Sims 3 runs great on it. SaveCleaner also works. I didn't do a clean install on it and everything I had before the update works great. I only updated some of my drivers and so far I have no issues. It is much faster than Windows 8.1.
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I've been using Windows 10 for a while now. Other than a few random things that I can't get to work (and I do mean only a few and I definitely mean random), it's been fine. I shut off all the privacy-invading things when I did the install, and then double checked to make sure there was nothing else I wanted to turn off. It's a pretty smooth ride, overall, and I like some of the new features. I don't know if I'd say it's a vast improvement over Windows 7, to be honest, but it's a huge improvement over Windows 8 (which I hated with a holy purple passion).