Right after Windows 8 got released, I upgraded to it on my 2011 budget laptop. I don’t know what exactly the problem was, I think there was both a problem with there being a high chance of not getting any output on the display after waking up from hibernation, and it also frequently bluescreened when booting. I was playing around with various distros before then but that was when I nuked Windows and switched to it as primary OS.
(That bluescreen bug on the laptop still wasn’t fixed with Windows 10 when that came out. Lmao)