I had Vista on my old laptop, and it was one of the reasons why I didn't like my old laptop, plus my laptop would heat it up after a while and actually burn me. My old laptop also was very slow, it could not do anything, I had to always restore it, and then it got this nasty thing where I did an update on it and I had to do this update because I needed to do some high school work and that update caused my computer to freeze at random points. I didn't know how to switch the OS so I was pretty much stuck with it, until the computer literally fell apart (I don't know what happened. A few screws came loose, the frame got cracked, the handles of it snapped, and it just literally fell apart.). Also my dad used it a few times so I blame him for part of the reason because whenever he holds any electronic that belongs to me or he got for me, it ends up breaking, it's like a curse. For Windows 8 and 8.1, I really don't like either, 8 is just a mess and I don't know what the people who made were thinking, 8.1 has been causing significant performance issues on my laptop as I mentioned earlier, also I can't watch any of my DVDs on 8 or 8.1 T_T. I had to go out of my way to find a DVD player just to watch them.
I really want to try Mario Kart 8. I have Mario Kart 7 on my 2DS which came with my system and I've been wanting to play Mario Kart 8 since I heard it was a lot better. I've been hearing the same about Splatoon. I looked up some gameplay footage of it when I first began hearing about it, and I really didn't seem so interested in it, and this is coming from someone who plays a lot of shooters. I said the same to Dedenne1 that I like the idea that was behind it and I would play it just for the single player, but the multiplayer looks so repetitive to me since you are constantly shooting to ink the map as much as possible and it seems like you shoot more in it than you do in any other shooter, however I did say that I may pick it up when I get a WiiU and it's really cheap. I've played the original Bayonetta back when it first came out, and I loved it death. Embarrassing fact, there's this one song and video in the game called Let's Dance Boys, and I actually did dance to that song everyday while the video was playing and tried to copy the dance on it as closely as possible that I can X3. As for other games that I can think of on the WiiU that I want to play, I want to play the Mario game that came out for it which I embarrassingly forgot what it was called, but I want to play it. I also want to play the LoZ Windwaker HD and upcoming Twilight Princess HD since I never did beat them and they were the only LoZ games I played and got interested in. There's also Xenoblade Chronicles X, and also Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black Water which I desperately want to play since I played most of the other games and have enjoyed them a lot.
Speaking of games, me and you should try to play something one day when we get the time and if we can find something that we both have.