I have an Acer 2012 laptop that I've owned since new, albeit for my parents use. (Aspire v3-771, 17", i5 3210M, HD4000)
I have installed W10 on it and alongside ditherig app, is 100% comfortable to use, as good as a 200x setup.
One thing to note is it's running the original BIOS and hasn't been updated since it was bought.
I am now ruling W10 out as a cause and pointing solely to driver/vbios/GPU as the culprit.
The fact is that W10 is only going to install drivers >2015 and as we can't slipstream W7 drivers into it, we could all be blaming Windows but it's the new drivers that are causing problems, not the OS.