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Windows 8.1 has been very solid for me, on both my big desktop machine and my 8" tablet. I use a mix of traditional Desktop apps and Modern apps on both machines, though the mix on the desktop box is very dominantly classic Desktop apps and the tablet's mix is mostly Modern apps. Both have been very stable in general
The desktop box gets rebooted once every month or two, usually because of some major update from MS. The tablet is shutdown and restarted almost daily for power reasons.
Personally, I find the new Start screen in 8.1 (but not 8.0) to be an improvement over the legacy Start menu. It's easier to customize, and once done, it is easier to navigate than the tree of cascading menus that was the old start. True, in Desktop mode I use the icons pinned to the taskbar as my main access for my frequently used apps and have since QuickLaunch was introduced long ago.
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