I'm just gonna say it: So far, I don't like Windows 8
- Thread starter acri1
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Damn I forgot this was releasing and I already have installed Windows 7 over on a new SSD drive I bought the other day. I installed the developer preview for Windows 8 on my cousins desktop way back, probably earlier this year and my main gripe with it was the obtrusive metro UI that came up when you hit the start button. Now I'll have 4 OS's on my PC if I get this. I already have Linux and Windows 7 on one HD and Windows 7 on a SSD HD. I wouldn't mind dropping Win 8 on my SSD but it's fairly small(60GB) and I rather not clutter it with multiple OS's. I might erase my linux partition as I don't really use it anymore.
Granted i didn't use it long enough to get accustomed to it but I prefer hitting start and right clicking menu items and taking it from there. Having to get to device manager by going through a bunch of screens was fairly annoying.
Program compatibility shouldn't be too much of an issue as I just actually used a few programs that I normally run on Win 7 on Windows 8 just now. It was a few apps for burning and checking 360 game ISO's.
Nonetheless I'll have to get accustomed to Windows 8 as updated knowledge of modern OS's is crucial for side business.
Granted i didn't use it long enough to get accustomed to it but I prefer hitting start and right clicking menu items and taking it from there. Having to get to device manager by going through a bunch of screens was fairly annoying.
Program compatibility shouldn't be too much of an issue as I just actually used a few programs that I normally run on Win 7 on Windows 8 just now. It was a few apps for burning and checking 360 game ISO's.
Nonetheless I'll have to get accustomed to Windows 8 as updated knowledge of modern OS's is crucial for side business.
qwerty_jones
Rookie
Posting from my surface right now love this device.
this OS is as silly as i thought it was. minus the fact that the start menu is now that Metro style screen instead of the traditional start menu people are used to its pretty much the same as Windows 7. you use that Metro UI to open a program and most of the time it kicks you back over to the Desktop UI which is basically Windows 7.
there's pretty much no point to go back. once i figure out all the changes its basically Windows 7 all over again. hall after the transfer everything i had is still there. my tabs in the browsers even reloaded from Windows 7.There's no going back breh...
qwerty_jones
Rookie
Start Screen is the best feature of Win8. My advice create sub groups like Sports.
Add apps that have live tiles, pin your favorite teams, pin your favorite news sources and BAM you get all your sports news in one spot without having to open anything.
I got sections like Friends, Social, News, Weather, Stocks all separated with live tiles feeding me info.
shyt is great brehs.
This is what I did. Definitely love these tiles though I'm on the desktop 99% of the time. So when I hear complaints about metro on a desktop or laptop I'm usually like
Gonna have to cop a WP8 after looking at these tiles. Definitely am a fan.
the thing about the start menu was it organized all your programs in neat folders. with this metro style view all apps its like the start menu with all the folders expanded so you can see all that stuff that was in each individual folder. its a mess. if a program doesn't already have a tile then finding it isn't as easy as it should be in that metro dumping ground.
This makes the OS seem much better
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"Do I click on the fish"
qwerty_jones
Rookie
Did you know when your in the Metro screen you can easily type something like "ut" and it will automatically find "utorrent". Personally I don't even use my Metro screen to launch apps I usually type the app I want by pressing the "Windows Key" followed by key characters "ut" "wo" "ex" no biggie launch apps in less than 2 seconds.
Sure you can do that with Win7 but I find that it isn't as good as Windows 8. Win8 is pretty spot on.
Also if you wanted to you can do this
1. Press the Windows Key
2. Search The-Coli
3. Select Internet explorer BAM it will search Bing for The-Coli.
Windows old fashion start menu gets confusing. As a IT Director I find that all start menus are different some start menus I have trouble finding a small little app like for example "MS Access" Some people delete it off the start menu and it becomes a bytch to find.
Windows 8 -> Win Key -> Access -> Enter done.
Windows 8 is so much better once you get the hang of it.
feelosofer
#ninergang
This, Windows 8 streamlines so much shyt and it runs pretty fast on my PC. Honestly the gap between Microsoft and Apple is closing pretty quickly and this coming from a guy who has used apple almost exclusively in my 15+ years in digital media.
Demonic Jenkins
Pro
Played with it in store...the only real knock I have is that it seems to open a few apps slower than I'd expect it too...I don't known if it was because of the store WiFi or what but it wasn't snappy and fast like the iOS or the newest phones on jellybean. I like the core features a lot though.
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