have a 2003 laptop with linux and works for everything I do(except development)
What are you talking about? Linux is fantastic for software development.
my dad has a W8 laptop and it works perfectly fine, no problems.its the people who do stupid stuff that forget it up.
He uses C#, so it's probably a little different, with that being a Microsoft thing.
Oh, well that explains it. I don't know stuff about C#