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That's the same thing that pisses me off in Ubuntu and its dash screen.
Hell, if I need to know and remeber the name of all the programs I have installed I might as well pull them up by command line and bypass all this GUI bs. DOS (and linux terminal) all the way, you hipster kiddies!
Having my programs listed somewhere, with also icons, (because in case you missed it, the bulk of the human population remembers more easily images than words) is useful to me and many others.
I know that 8 can have the folders in the task bar and all that, and that there is an ugly app selector screen, but it's missing the point on so many levels.
It has to run out of the box, or it goes out of the window.
Which is what is happening. W8 stuff is selling less than Vista stuff at its glory days. This ought to tell something. I mean pre-SP1 Vista sucked hard.But in reality, I don't see why people are so Anti-Windows 8. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, IF you do not like change, DON'T UPGRADE.
You are a minority. Is that a problem?
LOL!! I always disable that stuff anyway it eats into the performance of the machine - I do that from Brink's tutorial on Optimisation:) Optimize Windows 7
I love the look of Aero (I really dislike 8's pastelly colours) and with the new system I have everything is very snappy due to the SSD. 7 was a bit slow on my old rig but that was nearly six years old when I installed it, now it's more than fast enough for me. If Windows 8 would be faster on my system I wouldn't appreciate it and it wouldn't give me my Aero!
I'm just one of those who doesn't think 8 is for me, I'm very happy with 7 and will stick with it for a long while yet. I've being toying with running 8 in a VM for a closer look but it really is just curiosity and no real desire to move to it as my primary OS.
No probs mate I just adjust the colours with the colour calibration> I do have a SanDisk Extreme SSD in this machine and my power up to desktop takes about 8 secs including login if I am ready for it LOL!! Shut down is in the blink of an eye - seriously almost as soon as I hit the shut down button.
Between apps is just as quick and I use 7 forum through it all the time as you might have guessed.:)
Anti 8 on tablet NO! Anti 8 on desktop? Take a look at just what 8 is a run off of RT on Surface Tablets that allows you to install on a tablet lacking 8 or the RT gui(both RT and 8 see same). Strip out the features and support people are accustomed on the desktop platform and offer no options to the user and you wonder why people want to stay with 7.
You can't compare the look between all versions leading up to 7 going back to Legacy. The two things that have remained until 8 came along however are IE and WMP. WMP was an option for 95 back then. At least back then if you looked on a 98 disk what did you find? "OPTIONAL" Windows components! Do you see any setup options for 8? NADA!
As anyone can readily see 8 draws a lot of fire from the obvious discontentment by many. That won't be going away anytime soon.
It seems to always come up that some people think other people don't like Windows 8 because they don't like change.
I like change for the better, but I don't like Windows 8, because in my opinion it is a change for the worse.
Savvy?
Bottom line is: use whatever you like. I won't belittle people that use and like Windows 8 (good for you guys), and I should hope for the same treatment.
I have a very specific kind of setup on my desktop (which includes how I have my Start menu setup) that works well for me. The additional Start screen related stuff would only serve to get in the way of that. Fortunately, there's no real significant reason for me to need to update to Windows 8. I also don't want to support this kind of an OS interface direction Microsoft is going in.
And as I've mentioned before, I use Windows 7 just fine on my Nexus 7 tablet too. Piece of cake. :)
Many of us were so horrified by Vista we leapt for Win7 to see if they'd learned. They had. As those of us who grew up with it here found it is by far the best OS ever, maybe destined to stay that way.
When and if it has a worthy successor we will embrace it and provide the level of support which has earned these forums the undisputed top tech forums on the web probably in history. Win7 is that good. Give us something that is as good or better.
What kind of crazy computer are you using that runs things 10x faster with Windows 8?!I just don't see what the fuss is all about I use the machine just as I did before only now it is ten times faster!
At least lets have an honest discussion here...
If it ran what I run using Windows 7 10x faster I would update with blatant disregard for my GUI preferences, even if it was ugly and annoying as sin. LOL
Last edited by Wrend; 21 Aug 2013 at 18:51.