My Windows 7 pc crashed last year so I bought a Lenovo with Win 8.1 on it and have loved it so far. So much that I am hesitant to upgrade to Win 10, because I'm used to it and really have zero complaints. I'm not sure if they all are like it, but on the tiled screen in the bottom left, it says "desktop" click that and everything is all normal...and it stays on desktop until you manually return to the tiles....so essentially, it's no different than 7 to me overall, and runs super fast on the Lenovo. Which could be because I actually learned my pc specs before I bought and bought one with some pretty good components in it.
I wonder how long the Win 10 free upgrade will be available? I have mine reserved and it keeps prompting me to upgrade, I just keep putting it off because I don't think I want to.