Windows 8 Sucks.

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MyFutureSelfnMe
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12 Oct 2012, 9:45 pm

Paracosm wrote:

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I will never use a "mobile computer" over a desktop one. Certainly not for gaming.

I despair for gaming if that's the way it's headed, and it looks as though it is. All the original virtues of the desktop are being derided by stockholders and spreadsheet cell values.

Windows 8 looks to me like Microsoft's Vietnam.

I think you should settle down. Nobody is making people buy these things. I certainly wouldn't try to use a laptop on a crowded subway.

I wasn't particularly unsettled....

Ok. I was afraid you were gonna start breaking stuff.

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12 Oct 2012, 11:21 pm

I've been using the release preview of Windows 8 for the past month and I like it. I've also used Linux for the past month as well but I prefer Windows because I have a lot of software (games) that won't run on Linux under Wine.

As for the start screen, I don't even use the start screen as I installed a program that immediately exits the start screen and goes right into the desktop environment and it also includes the start button.

Initially I did not like Windows 8 but I got used to it and know my way around it now.

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12 Oct 2012, 11:58 pm

AJ89 wrote:

You're referring to Start8. Which basically makes Windows 8 into Windows 7 Minus.

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13 Oct 2012, 12:15 am

I use the classic shell program.

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13 Oct 2012, 2:03 am

Oh, ok.

Start8 duplicates the Win7 start menu down to every possible detail. It is commercial software though.

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13 Oct 2012, 7:28 pm

You can also use ViStart. It's free software but it requires .NET Framework 3.5. It looks like Win7 startmenu. Sometimes, it can crash (a small error when Windows is shutting down).
If you want to try ViStart, when installing, don't accept extras (it's adware).

With startmenu and another theme (default theme in RTM is ugly, you can use RP theme in RTM if you want), Windows 8 is not bad: it's stable and has good performances (quick at boot,...).

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13 Oct 2012, 7:34 pm

ViStart has a few issues and doesn't prevent the Metro start screen from showing up like Start8 does, which is crucial. I also don't think its duplication of the Windows 7 start menu is as perfect as Start8.

Start8 supposedly also lets you use the Metro start screen in the shape of a start menu, which may be what some want.

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14 Oct 2012, 4:33 am

I don't like the look of Win 8 I'll stick with Win 7 on my laptop for now it runs what I need to.

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