This is the last operating system I think microsoft truly cared about, Hardly any processes, Very stable quick even on HDDs. If only it shipped with a start menu maybe things could of been different
I think maybe if they gave you an option to switch to a start menu and run metro apps in a window it would've been reviewed a lot better imo. though I guess that would've been windows 10 a few years too early
Yep. It was a very well running ans stable operating system. It was a good operating system overall, it just had a poor user interface for desktop users. Windows 10 on the other hand is a garbage operating system which is buggy, unstable, and has terrible resource optimization; even after being released for nearly a decade.
I have one tid-bit of information about hard-drives. At some point in windows 10, Microsoft did something to Windows that made it almost impossible to run on a Hard drive. From that point onward you HAD t have an SSD. And now, you actually kinda need an NVME since SSDs sometimes lacks the DRAM chip, and NVME chips at least runs so fast they don't need one. If not your windows will freeze between update downloads and installations (before the restart process). It's interesting because Windows 7, 8 and the first 3 years of 10 were pretty much fast and stable on HDDs, but something happened and now its impossible to use it. I believe there's so many things happening at once, and Windows is probably less optimized if compared to previous versions, it only works well on extremely fast Solid State Drives. Not only that but we also have our info being constantly stolen from us in each build. And windows 11 keeps pushing updates that ONLY gives us new Co Pilot features, which to mee are just a novelty. but yeah, it's insane how fast Windows 8 runs on HDD while Windows 10 and 11 are just downright impossible to run on a hard drive. I also love how the Task bar in Windows 8.1 have 50% transparency, while Windows 10 is about 15% and Windows 10 feels it's less than 5% if you add any color to your task bar. Also, me and I think 80% of Windows user base that upgraded to 8.1, were Desktop users, and Windows 8.1 works pretty damn well as a Desktop machine. The sole problem with it was the huge full screen Start menu, that MS only fixed with W10. Still, awesome system
This makes a lot of sense because my windows 10 laptop is running a HDD and is so slow but i only noticed a significant slowdown in 2021 and it become incredibly unusable in 2022 which forced me to try a macbook, i got a second macbook (2009 17") to put windows 10 on it for the softwares that are windows only and it works much faster especially as there is an SSD in it but even when i was waiting for my SSD to arrive my SSHD was working faster than the HDD so maybe even just an SSHD can be a slight improvement. Running Windows 10 on a 15 year old macbook made me enjoy using Windows 10 again hahaha
windows 8/8.1 was the OS on my daily driver from 2012 until i decided to build a desktop back in 2018. I've stopped using it in mid 2020, but i do have my old acer aspire e1. It's falling appart and it doesn't work that great anymore... still, Windows 8.1 is so nostalgic to me for a number of reasons
It was lightweight by default, very few background processes. My potato laptop was doing good with this os. Sad to see it got abandoned by chromium based browser on which i had to rely on. 😢
I only ran Windows 7 and later went on Windows 10. Microsoft decided to build a mobile operating system in Windows 8 and 8.1. Not for me. I’m an early adopter and these iterations of Windows weren’t to my taste.
Except the metro ui i liked Windows 8. It's the first Microsoft OS that introduced the fast boot feature that exists in Windows 10 and 11 today,and it was way faster than 7 on both HDD and SSD
Beautiful Windows 7 I tried doing it with that one let's say did not go well I just got stuck on starting Windows and I tried everything I tried custom drivers I tried custom isos I tried removing everything there and start up and it still does not work
Builds of windows from vista/7-10 1809 were pretty dang fast, 1903 and above started to lack in terms of performance and were starting to have more bloatware moving on Even if you debloat, you would still notice a subtle delay compared to older builds like 1809
In my honest opinion Windows 8.1 was underrated OS. I was using this system since 2013? The way that worked so smooth on my potato PC was so wonderful. It was weak 2 core Celeron E3400, 4Gigs of RAM and 512MB Radeon 5450 and of course poor Hitachi HDD 500GB. Windows 10 was lagging as hell and I can't even imagine, how poorly Windows 11 would work on it (bypassing it ofc). Holy crap I would give a lot to use that old system to this day. I don't know why people were hated this OS so hard.
Neat vid, yeah very michael mjd vibes. not a bad thing tho. and myself, i would turn that little Lappy into a Batocera machine. Really not super useful for anything current. even with a old Clunker mech drive, Would prob do light PS2 Also the hanging issue is likely due to said Mech drive
how can I get a copy of Windows 8? My mom's old laptop has been dead since my dad installed Windows 10 on it and couldn't get it to work. It won't boot and when you try to repair it it says that it can't. I want to get it working so we can see what kind of stuff she had on it
Short answer is that you can't. Longer answer I won't get much into, so it'll be short as well, but you'd need an older chromebook and at that point it may not be worth it due to how underpowered they are. However, like the other person that replied said, there are plenty of tutorials and you'll need to find the one for your particular chromebook. I'd just find and buy a decent used windows laptop or a $100 deal for a brand new one. Both are everywhere if you look.
I had a PC with windows 8.1 phone January 10th 2023 it's support gets an end and unable to update the browsers.so I switched to windows 10 on August 20 2023. Windows 8.1 is a lightweight OS. Windows 10 take too much time to bootup because of hdd. Windows 8.1 is really fast on Hdd. After the support of windows 10.i switch to Linux mint.iam currently running dual boot with windows 10 and Linux mint.windows is very easy to use.but Linux is very light and much fast on bootup.
Windows 8 is neat as someone who grew up with an Xbox 360 and an iPad. Funnily enough it's much nicer than 10 for gaming especially latency. And probably security. Because if you think about it, who is going to hack windows 8? Much less use it? A hacker won't go for windows 8. It's abandonware.
i don't uderstand why you used 3-party drivers installer, in the end of 2023 on my pc all drivers were installed by windows itself through windows update.
"All the 5 Windows 7 fans can rise up now!" Holy based Windows 7 user slander. Psssst get a quad-core 4th-gen i7 Thinkpad T440 for like $60-70 or a quad-core i7 Thinkpad T470-480 for $200 as your next laptop. It'll change your life. The trackpoint is something that must be used by at least every computer enthusiast.
Why? Like why when you know that internet explorer is slow old and dead you still prefer to Use it than Edge that is one of the dumb dissions Yes Microsoft edge is Let's say a browser but going form IE to Edge is a nice experience you could have still used edge
That’s really sad, windows 8 and 8.1 was the first operating system I experienced on a home PC, it brings back so many memories
same
@@PotatoGaming5005 windows xp and vista
@@amargamer2010 XP was cool, Vista and 7 sucked
@@verziscool GREAT
@@verziscoolstop the gen z kids
windows 8.1 honestly looks like unfinished windows 10, but i like it... its strangely nostalgic despite only using it a couple of times
Windows 8.1 is finished Windows 7 tho
@@WololoWololo2 windows has never truly been finished
@@gamingballsgaming Nothing is finished unlike God is
If this is unfinished windows 10, then hell yeah. All I ever wanted was a refreshed windows 7, so this looks awesome.
@@3ofSpades Windows 8.1 is a refreshed Windows 7 100% confirmed no cap
this video somehow gave me LGR x michael mjd vibes with a bit of gen z magic - keep going!
This is the last operating system I think microsoft truly cared about, Hardly any processes, Very stable quick even on HDDs. If only it shipped with a start menu maybe things could of been different
I think maybe if they gave you an option to switch to a start menu and run metro apps in a window it would've been reviewed a lot better imo.
though I guess that would've been windows 10 a few years too early
Yep. It was a very well running ans stable operating system. It was a good operating system overall, it just had a poor user interface for desktop users. Windows 10 on the other hand is a garbage operating system which is buggy, unstable, and has terrible resource optimization; even after being released for nearly a decade.
that laptop is overpowered for its time and this video has the mjd vibes, when everything works.
I miss these animations so much, it's fluid even with no drivers installed. Windows 10 moves like it's suffering, everything seems bulky and heavy.
How do you have only 353 subscribers???? You're definetly going to have a lot in the future.
Genuinely didnt know that legacy uodate worked on windows 8.1
P of update lost its legs
Legacy update works all the way to windows 11 I think
I have one tid-bit of information about hard-drives.
At some point in windows 10, Microsoft did something to Windows that made it almost impossible to run on a Hard drive. From that point onward you HAD t have an SSD.
And now, you actually kinda need an NVME since SSDs sometimes lacks the DRAM chip, and NVME chips at least runs so fast they don't need one. If not your windows will freeze between update downloads and installations (before the restart process).
It's interesting because Windows 7, 8 and the first 3 years of 10 were pretty much fast and stable on HDDs, but something happened and now its impossible to use it. I believe there's so many things happening at once, and Windows is probably less optimized if compared to previous versions, it only works well on extremely fast Solid State Drives. Not only that but we also have our info being constantly stolen from us in each build. And windows 11 keeps pushing updates that ONLY gives us new Co Pilot features, which to mee are just a novelty. but yeah, it's insane how fast Windows 8 runs on HDD while Windows 10 and 11 are just downright impossible to run on a hard drive.
I also love how the Task bar in Windows 8.1 have 50% transparency, while Windows 10 is about 15% and Windows 10 feels it's less than 5% if you add any color to your task bar.
Also, me and I think 80% of Windows user base that upgraded to 8.1, were Desktop users, and Windows 8.1 works pretty damn well as a Desktop machine. The sole problem with it was the huge full screen Start menu, that MS only fixed with W10.
Still, awesome system
i would reccomend windows 10 ltsc still runs ok on laptop hdd 5400rpm
This makes a lot of sense because my windows 10 laptop is running a HDD and is so slow but i only noticed a significant slowdown in 2021 and it become incredibly unusable in 2022 which forced me to try a macbook, i got a second macbook (2009 17") to put windows 10 on it for the softwares that are windows only and it works much faster especially as there is an SSD in it but even when i was waiting for my SSD to arrive my SSHD was working faster than the HDD so maybe even just an SSHD can be a slight improvement. Running Windows 10 on a 15 year old macbook made me enjoy using Windows 10 again hahaha
Can't believe WIn 8.1 is now 11 years old, I remember when it came & we tried it out on my highschools' PC's in the IT class lol
I love how the music you use is from Bejeweled Twist
it’s good music
windows 8/8.1 was the OS on my daily driver from 2012 until i decided to build a desktop back in 2018.
I've stopped using it in mid 2020, but i do have my old acer aspire e1. It's falling appart and it doesn't work that great anymore... still, Windows 8.1 is so nostalgic to me for a number of reasons
It was lightweight by default, very few background processes. My potato laptop was doing good with this os. Sad to see it got abandoned by chromium based browser on which i had to rely on. 😢
windows 8.1 had a really good simple UI and they brought back the windows logo from windows 8, I still have a HP PAVILLION running windows 8.1.
same bro
im your 200th subscriber :)
underrated youtuber tbh
Fastest and most stable Windows ever. Just add Classic Shell.
I only ran Windows 7 and later went on Windows 10. Microsoft decided to build a mobile operating system in Windows 8 and 8.1. Not for me. I’m an early adopter and these iterations of Windows weren’t to my taste.
Except the metro ui i liked Windows 8. It's the first Microsoft OS that introduced the fast boot feature that exists in Windows 10 and 11 today,and it was way faster than 7 on both HDD and SSD
i dont know if its the same for the i7 model, but if it is you should cover the windows xp support atleast the i5 model has!
8.1 is most optimal for this laptop with HDD.
thanks for your videos, please continue)
Beautiful Windows 7 I tried doing it with that one let's say did not go well I just got stuck on starting Windows and I tried everything I tried custom drivers I tried custom isos I tried removing everything there and start up and it still does not work
Builds of windows from vista/7-10 1809 were pretty dang fast, 1903 and above started to lack in terms of performance and were starting to have more bloatware moving on
Even if you debloat, you would still notice a subtle delay compared to older builds like 1809
In my honest opinion Windows 8.1 was underrated OS. I was using this system since 2013? The way that worked so smooth on my potato PC was so wonderful. It was weak 2 core Celeron E3400, 4Gigs of RAM and 512MB Radeon 5450 and of course poor Hitachi HDD 500GB. Windows 10 was lagging as hell and I can't even imagine, how poorly Windows 11 would work on it (bypassing it ofc). Holy crap I would give a lot to use that old system to this day. I don't know why people were hated this OS so hard.
As somebody who still uses Windows 8.1...those 2 7 Users will have yo pipe down
Hello I was trying to install windows 8.1 on my old laptop but when I install it I can't find wifi. Any tips?
Neat vid, yeah very michael mjd vibes. not a bad thing tho. and myself, i would turn that little Lappy into a Batocera machine. Really not super useful for anything current. even with a old Clunker mech drive, Would prob do light PS2
Also the hanging issue is likely due to said Mech drive
But why, that poor computer will have scares till the day it dies.
the 5200m can play hl2 like a dream
how can I get a copy of Windows 8? My mom's old laptop has been dead since my dad installed Windows 10 on it and couldn't get it to work. It won't boot and when you try to repair it it says that it can't. I want to get it working so we can see what kind of stuff she had on it
Last I remember you can still download an official windows 8 ISO from Microsoft directly
W bejewled twist ost
nothing is ever dead at its core
The first Arab subscriber to your channel
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8 was the first OS I had, upgraded to 10 Pro then 11 Pro. 8 was decent, but 11 Pro had better performance.
nothing to do with the video i seen you posted recently how can i get my chromebook from chrome os to any other os
there's a trillion tutorials
Short answer is that you can't. Longer answer I won't get much into, so it'll be short as well, but you'd need an older chromebook and at that point it may not be worth it due to how underpowered they are. However, like the other person that replied said, there are plenty of tutorials and you'll need to find the one for your particular chromebook.
I'd just find and buy a decent used windows laptop or a $100 deal for a brand new one. Both are everywhere if you look.
@@JV-io3nn thx bro
@@quinnbrooks5751 no shit but they where not working
Third best windows!
Haha legendary!
I had a PC with windows 8.1 phone January 10th 2023 it's support gets an end and unable to update the browsers.so I switched to windows 10 on August 20 2023. Windows 8.1 is a lightweight OS. Windows 10 take too much time to bootup because of hdd. Windows 8.1 is really fast on Hdd. After the support of windows 10.i switch to Linux mint.iam currently running dual boot with windows 10 and Linux mint.windows is very easy to use.but Linux is very light and much fast on bootup.
Get a SSD, 120-256GB SATA SSD is cheap nowadays
I use to like windows 8 on my old lap
Windows 8 is neat as someone who grew up with an Xbox 360 and an iPad. Funnily enough it's much nicer than 10 for gaming especially latency. And probably security. Because if you think about it, who is going to hack windows 8? Much less use it? A hacker won't go for windows 8. It's abandonware.
8.1 is !y favourite 😢❤❤ like 7 8.1 is much smoother and fluid
Bro windows 8.1 is the best os my ram usage lowest is 2% on 12gb
i don't uderstand why you used 3-party drivers installer, in the end of 2023 on my pc all drivers were installed by windows itself through windows update.
windows update is bad at providing drivers for anything older than windows 10.
maybe you can try tiny10 or tiny 11 even
i7 quadcore, 16 gigs of ram and a junky old hard drive. 2012 moment
I was still using windows 8.1 cause it nice 🙂🙂
i dont now why but i like Windows 8.1 thats wierd
What about Windows 7 when it has already been dead since 2020?
(also, Windows 8.1 died on 2023, not this year.)
did you watch the first like 30 seconds
8:44 your WHAT skills?
oh yknow
Weird that they killed off these so fast. Didn't XP last almost 20 years? These didn't even last that.
"All the 5 Windows 7 fans can rise up now!"
Holy based Windows 7 user slander.
Psssst get a quad-core 4th-gen i7 Thinkpad T440 for like $60-70 or a quad-core i7 Thinkpad T470-480 for $200 as your next laptop. It'll change your life. The trackpoint is something that must be used by at least every computer enthusiast.
Why? Like why when you know that internet explorer is slow old and dead you still prefer to Use it than Edge that is one of the dumb dissions Yes Microsoft edge is Let's say a browser but going form IE to Edge is a nice experience you could have still used edge
i don’t care for edge.
i use windows 8.1 :)
Obligatory “switch to Linux” comment here