Same here. My Win 7 drive is tucked away in the closet if needed.

windows 98 bsodded on me during install
several times

granted i was installing it on a virtual machine but this didnt bode all that well

Honestly, at this point in OS development of 10, I have more issues in 7 (driver crashes, games playing very sluggishly, etc) than in 10. It's really been improved a lot, even since January.

Saying that, I'd probably still use 7 if it supported DX12 from day 1. Also, I have a newer machine which was designed for Win 10, so that probably helps.

It's sad how low that number is considering the gaming support Linux has now, but not really all that surprising.

Switching your OS takes a lot of work and re-learning, which is completely beyond some users and for others takes more time than they want to spend on their entertainment device

And then there's still the lack of support, sub-par performance (compared to Windows) and compatibility problems of the games Linux does get. Hell a lot of developers that use Unity don't even publish a Linux version, and that's just plain lazy and wrong.

Which version of Windows do you have? I have the Home version which I hear has far fewer customization options in regards to updates, etc.

Awwww.

But yes, ME has a bad reputation, but among the people who actually used it, it was not that horrible. It's just that ther unlucky folks having hardware conflicts were in for a very bad experience (but with a well done configuration, it was a good OS)

Currently have Pro.

Keep in mind as well that as this survey was optional it only reflects the statistics among those that chose to engage in it. This is important because if there are any correlations between people who chose to take the survey (vs not take it) and one of the survey options it can dramatically skew the results. For instance, if there were a correlation between people who chose to not upgrade to Win10 and people who tend to choose not to unnecessarily hand over information to companies then the non-Win10 results could easily be under-represented. No idea if such correlations exist, but they're important to keep in mind when considering survey methodology.

Sorry for the offtopic, but I think you might be interested in this :)

Indeed, for example it could be possible that people with the mentality to not upgrade their OS to Windows 10, might also have the mentality to not do hardware surveys. Myself for example.

Mind you, I am not fundamentally opposed to the Steam hardware survey's primary data focus and even went and filled it out once - but, then I found that part of the hardware survey scanned my computer for all software applications and was going to include the list of all installed applications etc. in the data packet sent to Steam. Now that - that is something I vehemently object to. There's no good reason for Valve to mandatory require that information, and so - I hit cancel and I do not participate in the hardware surveys. The software I have installed on my computer and other data on my hard disk etc. is NOT "hardware".

So, people such as myself who are aware of this are going to end up unrepresented. I surmise that people such as myself that have a higher concern for privacy related issues are just as likely to avoid upgrading to Windows 10 for the same reason. There's no way to measure us, but we're out here. Even if we're a small group (and we probably are in all honesty), there are likely many other pockets of users that fall into other categories which aren't counted as well.

Still, even though that may be the case - companies can only try to do their best to gather the data and then act upon the numbers within a degree of error margin, and Steam stats are probably the best information out there on gamer hardware availability even with errors in the counts.

skeletonbow raises an excellent point... I participate in the hardware surveys because it in the end means that game devs know better what hardware to cater to. HOWEVER, it does, in fact, record all installed software on your machine.

Come to think of it, the recent MS survey asked how many games installed on my machine were via torrent. I proudly answered "0".

Don't know why but you reply wasn't being show to me. 0.o

Anyway, I agree that these policies suck, but I was asking purely on a technical level. Patch out the stupid new ecosystem policies and the OS is perfectly fine. In fact, you can configure most of the OS to suit your needs right now (disable automatic/mandatory updates, privacy settings, uninstall the useless apps, etc) .

Can you? I think disabling updates isn't available on the Home edition, only on Pro or Ultimate, or so I heard.

Been having a good time with 10 tbh, The increase in speed across everything from booting to installing things to internet and games and virus scans is very welcome with me. And the new UI is not bad I like it but kind of hate how Microsoft made settings a separate thing from control panel and did not just combine the 2 to make it less work to get settings changed.

I currently use enterprise edition that I got for the price of pro so win win on my half :)

one major issue as of now... Calendar don't work for me and keeps on shutting itself off when I open or go to settings -_-