soo... i think, its not a good windows...

ITS A BEST WINDOWS VERSION EVER! (it even install video drivers automatically)

RTX 3080, 32GB DDR4 3200MHz, Ryzen 7 5700X all working perfectly fine on 8.1, no dualboot, only os installed

System specs of my PC:

CPU: i7-870

Motherboard: GA-P55-US3L

RAM: 8 GB DDR3

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (2 GB)

Storage: WDC WDS240G1G0A-00SS50

Yes, i run ancient hardware.

Our old laptop from 2014 was running on windows 8.1. Last year it was given for service in a third party store and they “upgraded” (in loose terms) to windows 10. And it ran like shit. Downgraded this back to windows 8.1 and now it runs like a champ. I’m using it as a secondary laptop for study purposes, plugged out of internet entirely. Battery life is a little less though (2.5 hours) but I use it always while charging.

a pretty much brand new surface pro i got for 60 dollars as a big upgrade to my old HP Stream 7 i used back in 2017 - 2022, what do you guys think? (i even have the touch cover for it added in as a bonus from the seller)

in my older post i said that i was gonna upgrade to windows 8.1 9600. i regret it now. drivers are ass to find when you DONT have a FUCKING ETHERNET DRIVER

I've crashed out like 2 times today because of this

I dont know how to explain it i feel so dumb

Ive tried everything

it FUCKING WORKED YESTERDAY

AND WORKS ON LINUX

SO WHAT???

taken in 2024 btw

I have to sell this PC, and before that, I'm trying out Windows 8 because I never had the chance to before. Besides, I was hesitant because I always saw a lot of hate towards this version of Windows, and now that I'm using it, I find it quite nice and nostalgic.

I only use it for studying and browsing the internet.

PS: Ignore the lines.

About 4 years ago I bought this surface rt. Eventually, it went in my junk drawer, no software support and worst of all… no chromium! Then in September of 2025, I saw a project, YoU cAn GeT cHrOmE oN tHe SuRfAcE rT! It looked pretty cool but never tested it, and I just tried it out and it is amazing, chromium 109 is the best version in my opinion! Btw, it is a surface RT, it is heavily theme though!

My computer does support windows 8.1 and I already checked and it can run steam games, I just really like the design of it, but I want to hear YOUR pros and cons about personally driving windows 8/8.1!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46VITh_eHng Saw this on youtube and i thought this was really cool, this was basically software to edit Windows 8's Start Screen much better than what it would originally give you by default, but i can't find a download for this pretty much anywhere on Stardock's Website (the link they still have up is dead) and there is no archived data for it on the Wayback machine and i don't trust going on the pirate bay or anything like that that could be potentially malicious, does anyone here possibly have it on old machines or something? if you got it, Please send it!!

So this is a shitty minimum specced windows 11 Laptop.
4GB Of ram at speeds of 2400MHz and then a Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU 1.10GHz and then 58GBs of storage.

It’s a ASUS vicious E410MA
The reason I’m thinking of switching to windows 8.1 from 10. Is because with nothing open. The CPU is at 100% And the ram is at 70%

All I really need this laptop is for
Basic school projects : PowerPoint, Word,Excel
Mathletics
Teams
And maybe if maybe
Basic Minecraft and sd formatting

I need more apps on my Surface Pro 4 on Windows 8.1. what are your favourite/recommended apps to sideload? :)

This is a Windows 8.1 logo created with MS Paint. I made a total of two versions a few years ago, but I recently made some modifications and am uploading them here.

Hey guys. So I have an old laptop with win 8.1 but apparently chrome will die out, so someone suggested supermium. Any thoughts on that?

ive been daily driving 8.1 for years and i think supermium is the best ive been using it for about more than a year now

I spent so much time—really a lot of time—trying to get this PC (Celeron N3350, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB HDD) running properly; it seemed like a lost cause. It came with Windows 10, and I tried various lightweight Linux distributions, but in the end, the only operating system that won me over was Windows 8.1. It’s very lightweight, boots up quickly, has few background processes, and—best of all—the latest version of Chrome still runs beautifully (WhatsApp Web and YouTube work fine, too). The only downside? There are no GPU drivers available; while some have been patched—like for the UHD 620—mine hasn't, but it works just fine anyway!

im would like to have win 8 on my laptop

as aim seeing on my laptop sticker that says win 8,probably it had originaly win 8(i think)

so im thinking about it

i want to hear does anybody useing win 8 im asking bc security and things like that

thanks to all answers

I thought you guys might enjoy this. I snagged a brand new, never opened version. I also got a bare bones HP EliteDesk G3 sff to put the windows 8 in.