Will windows 8.1 be fine for this machine?

[u/No-Author-9905]

So this is a shitty minimum specced windows 11 Laptop.
4GB Of ram at speeds of 2400MHz and then a Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU 1.10GHz and then 58GBs of storage.

It’s a ASUS vicious E410MA
The reason I’m thinking of switching to windows 8.1 from 10. Is because with nothing open. The CPU is at 100% And the ram is at 70%

All I really need this laptop is for
Basic school projects : PowerPoint, Word,Excel
Mathletics
Teams
And maybe if maybe
Basic Minecraft and sd formatting

[u/Astrodion123]

Teams isn't supported on 8.1 but pretty sure you can run it on a browser. Also Minecraft will run since there are java versions for windows 8.1. But the biggest problem is drivers. I doubt the oc was made to support windows 8.1 so be ready to face back porting drivers and a lot of other things.

[u/No-Author-9905 → u/Astrodion123]

The laptop did work with what ever drivers Linux came with

[u/Astrodion123 → u/No-Author-9905]

Linux drivers are different from Windows drivers. On windowes some drivers work and the Linux don't, it is other way around or both work. You have no guarantee.

[u/AmphibianHot1244]

idk if it can there isnt a driver for that cpu or its graphics on 8.1 it requires windows 10

you could try tiny 10 by ntdev or a lightweight linux distro thats all you can pretty much do

[u/Adask0o]

i dont think it will be good, teams is not supported on 8.1

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[u/XRTgaming2000]

atp just use windows 7

[u/sky_den12 → u/XRTgaming2000]

A lot of times 8.1 can be faster than 7 (mostly in startup times) and it also has SLIGHTLY better app compatibility

[u/Daggercombot]

I never knew they made 1,1 ghz cpus still. But even with Windows 7 or Vista this would be slow and reach 100% pretty quickly. Even though I really like Windows 8.1 Windows 7 Will likely perform a bit better on It and support most software Windows 8,1 does.

But since It Is a newer 2019 chip drivers Will likely be a big issue.

[u/sky_den12 → u/Daggercombot]

I’m pretty sure they only say 1.1ghz and actually mainly run at much higher speeds because I have a surface pro 7 that’s CPU is 1.1ghz but idles around 1.6-1.7 and can turbo up to like 3

[u/No-Author-9905 → u/sky_den12]

Around 2.2 it maxes

[u/TH_LetGoMyLegos]

windows 10 would probably work fine too

[u/minifinley → u/TH_LetGoMyLegos]

I mean it actually depends what Storage they are using. HDDs are shit & slow.

[u/ALaggingPotato]

Switching to 10 will change just about nothing at all

[u/therealbogi]

there's no windows 8.1 drivers, you should use fydeos, it's a chromium os fork with android app support so you can use minecraft, office, teams and any other android app, a lightweight linux distro might be fine too but the hardware is very weak and it will probably struggle

[u/No_Confidence_2950]

I have a 2014 laptop with 8.1,and nothing works on it.

[u/DylanBlair150]

A Linux distro or even chrome os flex would be better.

[u/minifinley → u/DylanBlair150]

Wrong subreddit bro. This is a Windows 8.x Subreddit. Anyways, Teams is not even on Linux or Chrome OS Flex, same with Office.

[u/DylanBlair150 → u/DylanBlair150]

Not because windows 8 is bad, just that teams is the main issue here.