8 was just a reskin of 7 with a different Start Menu UI and the beginnings of the half-baked Control Panel migration, but was really not that bad once you got used to it. More so if your device had a touch screen, though I still think ultrabooks are kind of pointless and just enable boomers who love to jam their greasy sausage fingers into the screen when they want to indicate something on an Excel sheet. Either way, Fast Boot was amazing when it first came out.
Hell, 7 was just a reskin of Vista, and Vista had a more efficient kernel due to some later hardware abstraction stuff not being included yet. It just had really shitty default settings, and was released before low/mid-spec hardware could keep up with shit like GPU rendered transparency effects on the desktop menus. The Gadgets system was kind of neat too (and compatible with 7), although full customization packages like Rainmeter offered a lot more options. NGL, I kind of miss having CPU and GPU usage and temps on my second monitor without having to install a third-party desktop gadget hosting app.
8 was just a reskin of 7 with a different Start Menu UI and the beginnings of the half-baked Control Panel migration, but was really not that bad once you got used to it. More so if your device had a touch screen, though I still think ultrabooks are kind of pointless and just enable boomers who love to jam their greasy sausage fingers into the screen when they want to indicate something on an Excel sheet. Either way, Fast Boot was amazing when it first came out.
Hell, 7 was just a reskin of Vista, and Vista had a more efficient kernel due to some later hardware abstraction stuff not being included yet. It just had really shitty default settings, and was released before low/mid-spec hardware could keep up with shit like GPU rendered transparency effects on the desktop menus. The Gadgets system was kind of neat too (and compatible with 7), although full customization packages like Rainmeter offered a lot more options. NGL, I kind of miss having CPU and GPU usage and temps on my second monitor without having to install a third-party desktop gadget hosting app.