I've resuscitated an older Windows PC, after years of exclusive OSX.. I've changed the CPU cooler (Intel Q9550), added an SSD drive - and my old PC is back up,

I've resuscitated an older Windows PC, after years of exclusive OSX.. I've changed the CPU cooler (Intel Q9550), added an SSD drive - and my old PC is back up, with the SSD it has enough juice to do the tasks I need it for - run Visual Studio 2015, browsing ... plus I can also play some (older) games on it, which is a lot of fun. I miss the old days of being able to play with the hardware, buy new video or sound cards, overclock the CPU and so on. Years ago when I was using Windows 7 it seemed the best OS Microsoft has put out so far (and I think since). But after years of working on a mac, I have to say that Windows feels like a huge hack in comparison. There are countless UIs you have to access in order to configure the OS, all kinds of voodoo utilities, registry editor hacks and so on. Should I also mention the daily blue screen of death ? Probably my fault somehow, but still.. Yes yes, I remember.. this used to be the Windows experience - I used to liked that.. It was what made me an 'experienced' user. But I don't anymore. I'm not sure what the Windows experience is today, but I'm not eager to spend a lot of money to find that out... Of course I'm curious about the Surface hardware - but not as much as to accept an inferior OS experience. After all, these little things, the details, the polish, the smoothness ... they trickle down into the creative work that I do, they do influence me subconsciously.. all the time.