[tuwtuwtuwtuw]

Friends don't let friends use sites like this.

The page consists of ~50% ads, interleaved with the actual content. Most of the links I see are to Audi, some site selling slippers, some "Action RPG game", heating blankets and 20 other random things.

Even if I exclude ads, I see links pointing at executables on this site, for example:

https://content.legacyupdate.net/legacyupdate/LegacyUpdate-1...

Do you want to tell your friend to navigate that page, find the correct link, download it and run it?

[joshuaissac]

> Friends don't let friends use sites like this.

Why not? The download link on the site points to to Microsoft's official website.

[riddlemethat]

Or Windows 8.x in general

[lousken]

It was the snappiest windows ever though

[wao0uuno]

I loved windows 8.1. It was fast, lightweight, looked clean and modern. That weird start menu wasn't really a problem for me. Too bad it got dropped by hardware manufacturers like a hot potato as soon as the objectively inferior Windows 10 came out. But maybe that's good because it made me switch to Linux full time and I couldn't be happier with it.