I'm a natural born skeptic. Have been for 71 years and I doubt I'll change anytime soon.
I was a moderator on the old Windows 8 forum, and with all the complaints I'd have to say that Win-8 was a disaster.
Windows 8.1 was MS's salvation. It works! What more can we say? And with the "Classic Shell", it works even better.
It allows a person who's old XP PC has shot craps, to buy a brand new PC and still feel at home with a look they recognize.
I've set up many new PC's for my customers, which came with Windows 8 or 8.1 and the first thing I did was install the Classic Shell.
Without that, the new PC would have been taken back to the store for a refund.
A friend who works for Office Depot, told me they get about 30% of the Windows 8 or 8.1 PC's returned as unusable. I get that!
Even with Windows 10 which looks like it's going to be a Keeper, I still install the "Classic Shell" because older users want a look and feel that they are familiar with, not some new thing that makes a home computer look like a cell phone.
It appears, from my limited experience with Windows 10, that it's going to be able to be installed on almost any PC. It's installed and working GREAT on my own 10 year old, home made Desktop PC.
As with any OS, Windows 10 will run better on PC's that have at least 4 GB of ram memory installed and a good, fast, SATA II or III hard drive.
But apparently it will run OK on systems with much less.
The hardware driver package that comes with Windows 10 is excellent. It even picked up my Epson XP-410 printer, with no problem.
But then, Epson has always been quick to provide MS with all the latest printer drivers, unlike HP and some other brands.
It will be interesting, to see what MS does with Win-10, between now and the final release. Can't wait!!!
Cheers mates!
TechnoMage