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good to see everyone stoked for windows 8

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:25 PM (2 days ago)

So this is happening soon and upgrades are $14.99 or something! Is it worth it? Let's talk about Windows 8.

this has really set ilx alight huh. anyhow the box looks nice

I downloaded the 30 day trial, how do I do this? Install it on another partition?

Article in the paper today saying how Steve Ballmer was for the chop if it didn't set ilx alight.

I heard Win8 was WYSIWYG!

I'm going to try it out but I don't think I like the GUI redesign... Win7 looks great, I don't want my desktop to look like a smartphone.

fyi I don't remember what it's called but the mode where you actually go in and manipulate the stuff in your file system basically looks like Win7

the tiles are basically a shortcut/splash screen system from the 15 minutes I spent playing around with Win8

it's called the "desktop", and yeah everything substantial you need to do seems to dump you back there, making the Metro tile interface feel like a veneer. I think Win8 is all about creating the impression that MS has one interface that runs across PCs, tablets, and phones, though in reality their Surface tablet-with-keyboard runs Windows RT which won't run extant Windows apps and works differently, and Windows Phone is also a completely different animal.

The tiles seem like the equivalent of Windows Desktop in Win98, IOW the very first thing you disable when configuring the OS for your personal tastes.

not Windows Desktop, I mean Active Desktop

Supposed to boot faster

I heard Win8 was WYSIWYG!

― Aimless, Friday, October 26, 2012 3:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one of my pet peeves is when ppl say that out loud like "Wizzy-wig"

It's the wig maker that Donald Trump uses.

Goddamn, the Windows 8.1 install takes over an hour. And Classic Shell is still required.

guys I am learning win 8 at work and it is actually rly cool

Just installed it. Tiles are interesting to explore

In 'Metro' you can't customize your background unless you sign into a Microsoft account

My mistake, you have to activate it first

upgraded to 8.1.
fuck.
its great.
all my wi-fi issues have magically been sorted out.
things are solid fast and easy ..
impressed.

idk if I want to do Win 8 w/ a mouse. I use it sometimes at work though and it's pretty fun.

just got this and it sucks ass

na man it's rly cool, just learn it

it sucks ass. i disabled everything related to "apps" and tablet/touchscreen use.

Why does it suck ass?

well the upgrade to W10 went without any problems.

seems to be a lot better.

very impressed so far.

i may even use Edge over Chrome now.

I got a blue screen yday when I made Netflix full-screen but hopefully it was a fluke

PDF'ing has gone a bit weird and i can't close Skype w/out task manager.

never use either of those applications, so cant comment.

but all good.

love the new start menu it makes live tiles actually useful, as reported the new search is super fast, and the multiple desktop thing is a very nice addition.

Words cannot express my hatred of this garbage operating system. Switched the computer on this morning and went to make breakfast, came back to "Updating Windows" Great, thanks for asking, no it's not like I wanted to use it or anything. 92% done, was 81% three hours ago. It's currently 'configuring settings' which apparently is some Sisyphean task. I do actually need to print something in the next few hours, yeah?

Windows 10 deletes my game controller driver every time it updates, and updates can't be turned off.

When it finally finished (another three hours later) I logged in to be confronted with no desktop, just glowing text saying "you've been updated", "all your files are still in the same place", "new features blah blah ps don't turn me off thx", with no indication as to when it was going to shut up and just let me use it. Have never felt a stronger desire to ring up and yell at bill gates.