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After using Win8 for about a month, spending the last 3 weeks trying to avoid it I've re-imaged my machine back to Win7. Generally speaking "8" was working OK but I've been accumulating little problems and finally decided this morning that I just have better things to do.
- Metro is pretty useless on a desktop machine. It works OK but the most I was doing with it was playing the Solitaire game.
- I could live with the loss of Aero and had gotten the desktop back to the way I want it using Start8. However:
- Neither of my photo printers work under Windows 8. I was having to go use another machine on the network for this. Not a huge deal (none of these points are) but I do all my photography from this machine. I'd like to use the printer sitting 18 inches away from this machine without having to copy photos to the network and go print from somewhere else.
- Metro is useless. My machine is on the desktop all the time.
- The font system in the desktop is a bit screwed up. Another minor one but my favorite font in Visual Studio doesn't work anymore.
- Metro is useless.
- Having trouble synchronizing my eWallets with my iPhone and iPad devices. Finally worked that out but I'm concerned with the flakiness of it.
- Metro is useless.
- My MSDN help system keeps coming up with linkage errors when trying to look things up. This never happened in Win7 Ultimate.
- Metro is useless.
- Oh oh ... the connection between this machine and my machine down at the office keeps timing out if I type more than 10 keystrokes at one time. Have tried updating drivers, etc. No go. This was the straw.
- Oh yeah ... Metro is useless.
If you've followed my posts on the board I have gone from outright hate of Win8 as I watched it develop to finally installing it live on my machine to, now, finally throwing up my hands and realizing that it just doesn't provide me any additional value and is forcing me to make compromises in my system's performance.
There are a handful of things about the Win8 desktop I do like - like File Explorer. It's got a few new features I like, however I've got Explorer++ that does all that in the Win7 desktop so that one is negated. Beyond that I can't sit here and honestly tell anyone that Win8 adds anything to a desktop system. Sorry ... I just can't. It's been fun playing with it but now I need to go get some work done on my product development. I can't afford to waste any more time with this.
-Max
- Metro is pretty useless on a desktop machine. It works OK but the most I was doing with it was playing the Solitaire game.
- I could live with the loss of Aero and had gotten the desktop back to the way I want it using Start8. However:
- Neither of my photo printers work under Windows 8. I was having to go use another machine on the network for this. Not a huge deal (none of these points are) but I do all my photography from this machine. I'd like to use the printer sitting 18 inches away from this machine without having to copy photos to the network and go print from somewhere else.
- Metro is useless. My machine is on the desktop all the time.
- The font system in the desktop is a bit screwed up. Another minor one but my favorite font in Visual Studio doesn't work anymore.
- Metro is useless.
- Having trouble synchronizing my eWallets with my iPhone and iPad devices. Finally worked that out but I'm concerned with the flakiness of it.
- Metro is useless.
- My MSDN help system keeps coming up with linkage errors when trying to look things up. This never happened in Win7 Ultimate.
- Metro is useless.
- Oh oh ... the connection between this machine and my machine down at the office keeps timing out if I type more than 10 keystrokes at one time. Have tried updating drivers, etc. No go. This was the straw.
- Oh yeah ... Metro is useless.
If you've followed my posts on the board I have gone from outright hate of Win8 as I watched it develop to finally installing it live on my machine to, now, finally throwing up my hands and realizing that it just doesn't provide me any additional value and is forcing me to make compromises in my system's performance.
There are a handful of things about the Win8 desktop I do like - like File Explorer. It's got a few new features I like, however I've got Explorer++ that does all that in the Win7 desktop so that one is negated. Beyond that I can't sit here and honestly tell anyone that Win8 adds anything to a desktop system. Sorry ... I just can't. It's been fun playing with it but now I need to go get some work done on my product development. I can't afford to waste any more time with this.
-Max
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Inspiron 17R / Dell XPS 8300
- CPU
- Intel i5 (17R) / Intel i7 (XPS)
- Memory
- 8GB / 8GB