If you do any gaming on the PC Windows 8.x is pretty bad. They removed hardware acceleration in DirectX and added it back in for Windows 10.
We have Windows 7 and XP at home. At work we have 8.1 and no one really likes it even on the touch screens. Then again, none of our applications are really made for touch screens either.
We do some local multiplayer at home and it is difficult to find games that are easy enough for a 5 year old that will keep dad and a 13 year old interested. Battlefield 1942 with EoD and DCX mods are one, this is another. He may not be able to go around a track very fast, but in a derby he is pretty good.
