After my catastrophic fatal hard drive crash of a month ago,
I bought a cheap bargain desktop preloaded with win 8.1 with a view to update to win 10.

I immediately disliked win 8.1, but after disabling much of the bloatware
and making it look as much like XP / win 7 as possible...

I think I'm actually starting to warm to 8.1 and now feel more reservations about a too hasty 'upgrade' to win 10 ???