Windows 8 or Windows 7 for Gaming?

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Engineering, you might run into older applications that don't like Windows 8. You should ask your fellow students or professor(s) their recommendation. I can tell you that industry moves much slower then Microsoft, and with support for Windows 7 through 2020 vendors don't have a lot of motivation to support 8 and 8.1.

(In the midst of deploying Windows 8.1 for a fortune 500 engineering firm, most of it works, but we have a lot of applications that ended up being virtualized in Windows 7, or even XP)
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Many, many people prefer W7 because they dislike the W8 user interface, however Windows 8.1 offers better performance in newer games like BF 4, Watch Dogs, etc. Better multi-core utilization and it supports DirectX 11.2. It still has some bugs, but so did W7 when it was introduced. Gets better every day.

I hate the interface too, but just use Classic Shell to make it act more like 7.
 
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Engineering, you might run into older applications that don't like Windows 8. You should ask your fellow students or professor(s) their recommendation. I can tell you that industry moves much slower then Microsoft, and with support for Windows 7 through 2020 vendors don't have a lot of motivation to support 8 and 8.1.

(In the midst of deploying Windows 8.1 for a fortune 500 engineering firm, most of it works, but we have a lot of applications that ended up being virtualized in Windows 7, or even XP)
 
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