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Subject: Opinion on Windows 8?

Poll: Opinion on Windows 8?  [closed]
I love it!:  9%
(1 Votes)
It's okay.:  36%
(4 Votes)
I liked the previous systems better.:  27%
(3 Votes)
Complete garbage.:  18%
(2 Votes)
Haven't tried it.:  9%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 11

Yesterday for Christmas I received an awesome Laptop with Windows 8, which I am typing this on right now. Although the laptop itself is very nice, and it fulfills my needs for school, I am very unimpressed by the new windows 8.

I do enjoy that it starts up very fast, and runs very smoothly, but the whole design of it, and the way it works is very confusing and different to me, someone who has used windows all their life.

As a disclaimer, my laptop is not a touchscreen. I realize that the whole tile looking start up menu screen is designed for touchscreen devices, and I also realize that it is possible to switch to a regular desktop layout, but still, it's very annoying to use.

Two of my biggest complaints are the lack of a start button, and the lack of the ability to put apps on the desktop. The start button has been present on, correct my if I'm wrong, but every windows system, until this one. It was very handy, and it adds a lot of difficulty not having one.

For the app complaint, my example right now is Skype. On my desktop, which runs windows vista, I have it on my desktop, and in the left corner of the taskbar for easy access. On windows 8, the only way to access it is from the start screen, and it's hadrer to multitask with it.

TL;DR I do not enjoy windows 8, and do not understand what their thought process was when designing some of the apects of it.

Even if you didn't read it, I'd like to hear your guys' thoughts on it.

Please no flaming.


[Edited on 12.26.2012 1:47 PM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 1:44 PM PDT

The HELL you are! These are precious gifts to me and they are non-transferable! How dare you regift my challenge prize. You might as well hock a wedding ring for beer money. -DeeJ

I like it. It's almost exactly the same as windows 7, except the replacement of the start button.

  • 12.26.2012 1:46 PM PDT
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I take it the idea behind Windows 8 is to eventually have a Windows OS that is similar and fluent between all devices - desktops, laptops, tablets, and phones. The idea of an "ecosystem" of devices in households is very prevalent in tech development nowadays.

I feel like it is perhaps a bit ahead of its time in that respect.

  • 12.26.2012 1:47 PM PDT

Stop banning me please.

I heard it sucks but idk. I don't have it. But I sure do love 7

  • 12.26.2012 1:48 PM PDT
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It's a casualized piece of -blam!-.

  • 12.26.2012 1:48 PM PDT
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I do not want to stop asking. I do not ask to stop wanting.

Bloody love it.

Though that may have something to do with my touchscreen all in one PC...

  • 12.26.2012 1:49 PM PDT


Posted by: Haloroach

i would probably enjoy it more if the laptop were a touchscreen, but I find touchscreens kind of annoying. I sometimes question why I have a touchscreen phone

  • 12.26.2012 1:53 PM PDT
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I like everything but the UI. It's fast as hell and runs better than any of its predecessors; however, I just don't enjoy the tiled UI on a non-touch screen monitor - it's quite awkward to navigate with only a mouse and keyboard.

  • 12.26.2012 1:55 PM PDT