In the area of UI, 8.1 is a huge improvement over 8.  GIves back the start menu, doesn't load with kiddyland of sites I never use covering the whole screen.  NO idea what it did to the touch screen, I don't use that, junk by any other name is trash. 

Long download, but gives the option to dump it all out, takes just as long to get rid of it.  Haven't had any problems, but the only thing I have it in is a laptop, which before 8.1 I hated.  Usable now.  Don't use it much, that won't change.

And very poor judgement by microsoft to ram it to us, I agree.  Another push to go entirely Linux.

Doric.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.