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Skuzzy uses 10 I think...
I have no idea what gave you that impression. We have a Windows 10 system, in house. We have to so we can support it, but I find it a pain in the tush to deal with simply because of the problems we have had with it.
Most things end users would never see. The resetting of the settings we need has cost us a number of hours of development time. Then the inconsistencies of some things just frustrate us.
Personally, I use Windows 7 Pro and that is the last Microsoft operating system I will ever have on my personal computers. I just see no advantage to going to Windows 10 at all. I'd have to spend a chunk of change to install third party software to do things which came with Windows 7 Pro. It makes no sense to me.
Morpehus, the biggest problems with laptops are finding all the drivers you would need to be able to run Windows 7. If you can find all the drivers (motherboard chipset, audio, video, network, ....) for Windows 7, then go for it.