I mean , for statistically robust results you need to do both . But this is a person ' s health we ' re talking about , so your approach is likely to be less risky . <| sep |> Did I fucking ask for your critique ? ??????????<| sep |> 7 is still great and we have that on nearly all our PC ' s at my office but 8 . 1 really is the pinnacle of the windows OS in my opinion once you install classic shell . Everyone hated the metro UI for good reason and microsoft simply suppressed all of the traditional windows 7 interface elements . In other words , everything is still there but simply turned off . Classic shell turns all that stuff back on and gives you a lot of options to customize both with the start menu classic , win 7 style , vista style , custom pinning of files or executables to the top of the start menu , etc as well as customizing the windows explorer menu bars and ribbon . It ' s really great and hard for me to go back to 7 after working so long on 8 . 1 . I ' ve been using it for about 3 years now as my primary OS for work and it ' s rock solid . All that said , the OS runs as a virtual machine on a hackintosh because even though it ' s an awesome OS , Mac OS is the gold standard for me when it comes to reliability , smoothness , stability and ease of use .