I am sincerely curious as to why so many people hate on Win8. What is it that you don't like about it. I updated my laptop last nite, went off without a hitch and honestly so far I don't care for the edge browser but I will give it some time.
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Use firefox or chrome.
I changed a lot of the privacy settings (the stuff that automatically gets sent to MS, deleted a bunch of apps and what downloads in the background, cleaned up the start menu, removed the search in the taskbar. I made the look very minimal. It runs great.
I made some recent additions to my PC and should fire up GTA 5 and Witcher 3 in 4k and see how these games run with windows 10. Haven't had the time to test any gaming out on Windows 10 just yet.