Jesse wrote:Janeway wrote:Shroombuck wrote:What the hell are you talking about? My interface looks exactly as Windows 7 does.
Unfortunately my dear Shroom, you can't debate with one so ill-informed as our dear Alexraptor.
I enjoy Windows 8 and find it a welcome improvement from Windows 7. Metro apps and the Start Screen is excellent for those of us with 27" screens or projectors. No more having to deal with the tiny font of that stupid start menu. In fact, I was like "the start screen and charms bar better be in 10 or I'll stick with 8."
Nothing is wrong with Windows 8. The only people that complain about it is usually the "nerds" because they can't either run the OS or don't understand its simplicity and ease of use.
Just like there was nothing wrong with Windows Vista but again the "nerds" complained about it because they simply didn't have the computers to run the OS. In fact, many of those "nerds" decreed that Windows 7 is better than Windows Vista because its kernel is based off of XP not realizing that the NT 6.x branch is based off of Windows Longhorn (hint: you'd know it as Windows Vista).
Funny thing was, a lot of them did it again: proclaiming 7 is best for being "based of XP" and 8 "based off Vista." Well, at least they got that last part right. I guess they didn't realize Vista was NT 6, 7 was NT 6.1, 8 is NT 6.2, while 2000 and XP I believe share the NT 5.x branch.
I guarantee you everyone will clamor for Windows 10.
Windows Vista and Windows 8 had the misfortune of being the OS' that required more computing power and introducing new paradigms. By the time 7 rolled around everyone had computers capable of running Vista just as 10 rolls around people will not only have computers up to spec for Windows 8 but understand the simplicity of Metro and how the paradigm coexists with Win32 apps.
I just want to know if Windows Media Center exists in Windows 10. Even if it's a $20 thing like it was in 8 I'm fine with it. It just better still be there.
The only bad Windows were ME and 98 (pre Second Edition/98 SE). Especially ME. That thing was abhorrent.
Wait... what? You LIKE Windows 8? Any desktop operating system that opens every app full screen on my 29" screen is designed by muppets. Windows 8 is great for tablets, but for desktop PC's... it's schizophrenic. It's two operating systems trying to kill each other. It doesn't matter how great or efficient Windows 8 is otherwise, because the user interface gets in the way of you doing work every time. A few lines of code is all it takes to ruin an otherwise great OS. Windows 10 corrects this with what probably amounted to 15 minutes of coding by one guy.
Exactly that Jesse. And do you know what the kicker is? The Start Menu was still in the system as recently as the Release Candidate version of Windows 8, and was removed ONLY after people discovered you could re-enable it with by editing the system registry, and disable that god awful Metro Interface.
Essentially Microsoft forcefully shoved Metro down people's throats, and that alone created a whole lot of resentment and prejudice against the OS.
Now I absolutely ADORE Windows Phone 8, and thats where the Metro Interface belongs, on touch sensetive devices.
But Hell, even Apple isn't stupid enough to make OS X look and behave like iOS. And fundamentally, the Mac OS interface has remained unchanged since 1984.
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Take what works, refine and polish it, enhance it, but never ever rework it if it's not broken.
Janeway wrote:
Unfortunately my dear Shroom, you can't debate with one so ill-informed as our dear Alexraptor.
Choose your words with care. I've been using Windows 8/8.1 since it was released, and use it on a daily basis, and its "tolerable" on a laptop" with its smaller screen and multi-touch pad.
But its absolutely unbearable on desktop computer with a large monitor, incredibly clunky and unwieldy, which is why my high-end gaming rig sticks with Windows 7 for now.