I've been using Win8 for close to a year now. Once it's properly configured + start menu added with Startisback (tried them all, this one was by far the best), there are definitely things about it I like better than Win7. I'm not sure I'd say it's "better" than 7, but it's got it's appeal. That's only once you kill the start screen with fire though.
I've been using Win8 for close to a year now. Once it's properly configured + start menu added with Startisback (tried them all, this one was by far the best), there are definitely things about it I like better than Win7. I'm not sure I'd say it's "better" than 7, but it's got it's appeal. That's only once you kill the start screen with fire though.
[quote="Cookybiscuit"][quote="Volnaiskra"]Though I don't get the hulabaloo about the start menu - I can't believe anyone actually ever used it, let alone considered it essential. If you miss mousing around a huge, unresponsive and clunky menu, you need to get better at using your keyboard, IMO.[/quote]
Go use a Win 8 PC and if you can make it half an hour without puking everywhere then you are more patient than me.[/quote] I think the new Metro interface is both hideous and sterile - a combination that I don't think even existed until Microsoft invented it with Windows 8.
But I also think the start menu is a terrible piece of UX design. It's like rummaging through a huge bin of disorganised junk trying to find that one thing you want. Things popping out all over the place, everything barely categorised if at all, awkward scrolling, having to hover over things and wait just to open the next level of menu. By the time you've found what you want, you've traversed almost the entire screen with your mouse......I'm definitely not patient enough to put up with that crap, lol
Search (Pressing the windows key and typing) is so much more elegant and fast, especially if you have an SSD. It makes win7 feel like Microsoft's first genuinely 21st century OS.
But I guess you're saying that the Win8 incarnation of that search functionality currently forces you to use the Metro interface, right?
Volnaiskra said:Though I don't get the hulabaloo about the start menu - I can't believe anyone actually ever used it, let alone considered it essential. If you miss mousing around a huge, unresponsive and clunky menu, you need to get better at using your keyboard, IMO.
Go use a Win 8 PC and if you can make it half an hour without puking everywhere then you are more patient than me.
I think the new Metro interface is both hideous and sterile - a combination that I don't think even existed until Microsoft invented it with Windows 8.
But I also think the start menu is a terrible piece of UX design. It's like rummaging through a huge bin of disorganised junk trying to find that one thing you want. Things popping out all over the place, everything barely categorised if at all, awkward scrolling, having to hover over things and wait just to open the next level of menu. By the time you've found what you want, you've traversed almost the entire screen with your mouse......I'm definitely not patient enough to put up with that crap, lol
Search (Pressing the windows key and typing) is so much more elegant and fast, especially if you have an SSD. It makes win7 feel like Microsoft's first genuinely 21st century OS.
But I guess you're saying that the Win8 incarnation of that search functionality currently forces you to use the Metro interface, right?
The thing I hate more than anything is being took out of what I'm doing. With Windows 7 I can be sitting typing this and then need to open a program, I'd just press the start button and get to it. With Windows 8 it takes you out of it and brings up a new Window, its ridiculous.
The thing I hate more than anything is being took out of what I'm doing. With Windows 7 I can be sitting typing this and then need to open a program, I'd just press the start button and get to it. With Windows 8 it takes you out of it and brings up a new Window, its ridiculous.
@Volnaiskra, search is the best way to use the start menu, in conjunction with the most commonly used program list. Having it smaller and in the corner (as opposed to full screen) is most efficient.
But yes, the default incarnation of Win8 technically works the same way as the start screen (you can just type anywhere in it and it searches), but it's very jarring to have that be a full-screen interface when it doesn't need to be.
Hence, startisback.
@Volnaiskra, search is the best way to use the start menu, in conjunction with the most commonly used program list. Having it smaller and in the corner (as opposed to full screen) is most efficient.
But yes, the default incarnation of Win8 technically works the same way as the start screen (you can just type anywhere in it and it searches), but it's very jarring to have that be a full-screen interface when it doesn't need to be.
Yeah windows 8 is crap apart from it being faster in every benchmark, more stable and more secure from hacks via software bugs by far than any mainstream OS.
Yeah windows 8 is crap apart from it being faster in every benchmark, more stable and more secure from hacks via software bugs by far than any mainstream OS.
Thanks for all the input guys and it seems like I will stay on Win 7 for a while, no need to change what aint broken as they say :)
And if/when the first game will use DX 11.2 (Tiled textures) comes out maybe MS have changed their minds and just put it out on Win 7 same as they did with DX 11.1 so no need to rush.
Nice to hear about Win 8 as of course it's allways nice/exciting with new OS'es :)
Thanks for all the input guys and it seems like I will stay on Win 7 for a while, no need to change what aint broken as they say :)
And if/when the first game will use DX 11.2 (Tiled textures) comes out maybe MS have changed their minds and just put it out on Win 7 same as they did with DX 11.1 so no need to rush.
Nice to hear about Win 8 as of course it's allways nice/exciting with new OS'es :)
But I also think the start menu is a terrible piece of UX design. It's like rummaging through a huge bin of disorganised junk trying to find that one thing you want. Things popping out all over the place, everything barely categorised if at all, awkward scrolling, having to hover over things and wait just to open the next level of menu. By the time you've found what you want, you've traversed almost the entire screen with your mouse......I'm definitely not patient enough to put up with that crap, lol
Search (Pressing the windows key and typing) is so much more elegant and fast, especially if you have an SSD. It makes win7 feel like Microsoft's first genuinely 21st century OS.
But I guess you're saying that the Win8 incarnation of that search functionality currently forces you to use the Metro interface, right?
But yes, the default incarnation of Win8 technically works the same way as the start screen (you can just type anywhere in it and it searches), but it's very jarring to have that be a full-screen interface when it doesn't need to be.
Hence, startisback.
And if/when the first game will use DX 11.2 (Tiled textures) comes out maybe MS have changed their minds and just put it out on Win 7 same as they did with DX 11.1 so no need to rush.
Nice to hear about Win 8 as of course it's allways nice/exciting with new OS'es :)