PaulC Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Whatever you do, avoid any laptop that comes with Windows 8. It is dogshit.??? reasons you think Windows 8 is dogshit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 27, 2013 Administrator Share Posted April 27, 2013 It's been posted before in the "Windows 8" thread, but seeing as you asked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regular_john Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 It's pretty much everything in that video and worse. Windows 8 is the product of taking every good idea about how a UI is supposed to work, throwing it all in a blender and hoping the end result is functional. It isn't. I don't think any interface has ever been so bad, and so hard to use, it's given me a headache. Then Windows 8 came along. The worst part is that the new secure boot software Microsoft have installed makes it very difficult to install a Linux distro alongside Windows 8, so unless you know what you're doing with OS installs you have no choice but to use their piece of crap software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Thanks for your answer. I have just purchased a laptop with windows 8 and I agree with everything you say. Bring back windows 3.1 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regular_john Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 That was pretty much my Mom's response when she got her new laptop! Hope you manage to get your head round it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Yes I'm fine with it. I would install Linux but I use Dreamweaver a lot and don't think there's a version for Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 29, 2013 Administrator Share Posted April 29, 2013 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted April 29, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 29, 2013 It's been posted before in the "Windows 8" thread, but seeing as you asked: Hmm, most of what he's talking about there is not windows 8, but the metro interface in windows 8. If you use desktop mode then nearly everything is exactly the same as win 7, but with faster boot etc. FWIW you close metro apps by dragging top to bottom. You find programs by hitting the start button and start typing the name of the program, which appears google instant style. I neither love nor hate win 8, but all the PCs I've put it on are desktops (ie nobody uses the metro interface) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 With Blue and boot to desktop I'll upgrade. It's faster boot times and improved battery life. So why not get it. Plus one or two things from the app store could be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 30, 2013 Administrator Share Posted April 30, 2013 Hmm, most of what he's talking about there is not windows 8, but the metro interface in windows 8. If you use desktop mode then nearly everything is exactly the same as win 7, but with faster boot etc. FWIW you close metro apps by dragging top to bottom. You find programs by hitting the start button and start typing the name of the program, which appears google instant style. I neither love nor hate win 8, but all the PCs I've put it on are desktops (ie nobody uses the metro interface) For most users and all the advertising, Metro IS the UI. As he asks un the video, how do you know the names of the commands to type in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Another vote for Lenovo laptops. I repair computers and always recommend Lenovo as good VFM laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 As he asks un the video, how do you know the names of the commands to type in? I don't know any of the commands in Linux either, but it doesn't stop you and Darren from recommending it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Touche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 30, 2013 Administrator Share Posted April 30, 2013 Pretty much every desktop flavour of Linux uses a launchers where you can select the program you want to run from a hierarchical menu. You don't need to know the name of the program, just like you didn't in previous versions of Windows. Did you watch the video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted April 30, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2013 If you hit the windows key iirc you can then go to programs and see the whole list (Not at a win8 machine at the mo). Win 8 is very far from perfect but not so completely broken as the video would have you believe. He spent half an hour on it and gave up because he couldn't work it out. No problem with that, but he could've googled like most normal people and found the solutions. Maybe because he was a techy geek he expected to be able to work it out. He couldn't, so therefore it's the fault of the operating system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 30, 2013 Administrator Share Posted April 30, 2013 The whole list in a hierarchical menu? Or the whole list in one level where you have to know the name of the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 30, 2013 Administrator Share Posted April 30, 2013 My experience closely matches the video maker's, but I've used a wide variety of OSes like he has. I don't know if that's the difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 No I agree with you Simon, I'm a relatively normal human being who has only ever used windows on a computer, could find his way around all previous versions without too much hassle and actually quite liked the experience. Windows 7 was/is comfortably the best yet. Windows 8 is botched. It's **** terrible. Faster boot times? How slow is your PC to need a faster boot time? Granted my Ultrabook boots from an SSD, but I can go from 0 to wanking in under 20 seconds. Not even enough time to get my pants off (or yes the pâté out blah blah). Thankfully I bought my laptop just in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Another vote for Lenovo laptops. I repair computers and always recommend Lenovo as good VFM laptops. Mine has been beleaguered with minor problems from the get-go (I bought it 1.5 years ago) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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