Solved How's everyones Windows 8 experience going?

[Harlantk]

Can we please avoid having every thread taken over by ranting about the same things?

Please post in an existing rant thread, or start a new one.

Kinda have to agree here. What we need is an all in one rant thread where everyone can just post their rants about the OS.

I wouldn't participate since Windows 8 is awesome for me.

Hey not a problem
As I stated I was only asking, willing to share if things might be helpful for others.
Wrong thread then no problem, my apologies and I shall search elsewhere for open discussion.
Be well everyone and thank ya for the responses..
Harlan

 

[Max Peck]

Without examples, it's just a piddling contest.

Well said.

-Max

 

[Mark Phelps]

Don't like the "Modern" UI cause I don't have a touch screen, so I boot directly to the Desktop and use that. Looks and behaves much like Win7 in that mode -- which is OK, for me.

Am running both Win7 and Win8 on the same SSD, and have seen NO improvement in performance (or boot times) of Win8 over Win7 -- so, maybe the performance gain applies to HDD systems.

Only paid $40 for it, and at that price (for the Pro version), it's worth using it just to get the experience and gain some familiarity with it.

Definitely don't like the removal of Aero from the UI as I liked the look of it in Win7 -- but, MS is NOT going to bring that back, so I have to just get used to it.

Main activities at present center around which Start Menu replacement to use -- as I like the menu approach.

I guess, if I was using a touch screen tablet, or a Surface, I would be "wowed" by Win8 -- but I'm not.

 

[FSeal]

Can we please avoid having every thread taken over by ranting about the same things?

Please post in an existing rant thread, or start a new one.

Kinda have to agree here. What we need is an all in one rant thread where everyone can just post their rants about the OS.

I wouldn't participate since Windows 8 is awesome for me.

??!?!?

You were the one that asked how everyone's windows experience was going so what did you expect? Did you only want to hear from people that were "loving it"? This thread started out as a pure opinion subject, of course your going to get both sides. :/

 

[LovingWindows]

??!?!?

You were the one that asked how everyone's windows experience was going so what did you expect? Did you only want to hear from people that were "loving it"? This thread started out as a pure opinion subject, of course your going to get both sides. :/

/cough

True, but one should not hijack threads just to rant and not give any details as to why. Ranting for the sake of ranting should be considered spam, especially when trying to hijack threads such as this one.

Not having a good Windows 8 experience? That's fine, tell us why in a respectful civil manner and maybe the W8F community can help make it better.

 

[Mustang]

Asking how someone's Windows 8 experience is going is asking for the subjective, personal, emotional impact it has on them. It is not asking for a logical analysis of why it impacts that way. So a person is not ranting or raving, but simply expressing their feelings in terms ranging from mild to strong language.

If I ask someone how chocolate impacts on them, they could say anything from "Yuk" to "Bliss". They don't have to give a chemical analysis of the consituents of chocolate and how they chemically react with their taste buds and how the nerves convey the taste sensations to the brain.

Of if I asked someone what their experience was of a roller coaster ride, their response could range from "wild", "terrifyiing", "adrenalin rush" "never again", "lets go again". You wouldn't expect them to cite various laws of physics and gravity to show the centrifugal, centripetal forces in play, and why the sheer stress factor was beyong the safety limits of the holding bolts ... unless they were a public health inspector.

In short they tell how the experience impacted on them ... in their words, not yours!

These are dictionary definitions:

Experience: 1) The totality of a person's perceptions, feelings, and memories. 2) To be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel.

Rant: 1) Violent or extravagant speech or writing. 2) To utter or express with violence or extravagance

Saying something seems dumb to the beholder is neither violent nor extravagant. It's just how they see it.

Calling someone a raver or ranter publically is inciteful to violence because it is insulting. So lets ban the people who accuse others of ranting.

Rave: 1) To speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently. 2) To speak or write with wild enthusiasm.

On the basis of the second parameter we'd have to ban Cokey, who is the bastion of the Win8 forum. Perish the thought. Love him or hate him, his enthusiasm is infectious.

 

[Brink]

   Warning

Let's keep this a friendly on topic discussion shall we.

 

[DMHolt57]

Must be something in the air today Brink,...and it isn't Christmas cheer...

 

[gazz9496]

some do find certain elements very frustrating.

i'm no exception to that either...

 

[AngelGirlAnnie]

I like it.
Chrome doesn't work well with Windows 8, but Firefox does.
Metro is sweet.
I do think that everything should be Metro or everything should be Aero. Right now it feels like having two OSes in one.

 

[mindaugas]

At first I didn't like, but it grew on me enough that I purchased an upgrade for my gaming PC. What I like.

 

[gazz9496]

I like it.
Chrome doesn't work well with Windows 8, but Firefox does.
Metro is sweet.
I do think that everything should be Metro or everything should be Aero. Right now it feels like having two OSes in one.

windows 8 is what we call a transitional o/s they give us bits of the old versions were used to before dropping it all together in windows 9 and sending the forums into a stir crazed madness of teeth attacking them for ditching their beloved desktop.

so how it feels to you is exactly what it actually is

in all honesty while i'm not overly fond of some elements i'm actually looking forward to a version where they just ditch the old stuff and move on.

 

[Ray8]

I guess, if I was using a touch screen tablet, or a Surface, I would be "wowed" by Win8 -- but I'm not.

Not necessarily.

Firstly, many 'apps', take you to a result where you're ging to have to interract with a keyboard/mouse, a finger isn't going to be accurate enough (for most), or the touch screen keyboard will be too too awkward.

Secondly, many of the apps take you directly to the traditional 'desktop', so you're going to subsequently have to interract with a keyboard/mouse as, again, a finger isn't going to be accurate enough (for most), or the touch screen keyboard will be too awkward.

I haven't found touch to be anything 'wow' inducing to date. I also hate the fact that the screen, after a very short while, starts to look like my dog has been licking it, with all the finger marks over the screen. You end up constantly cleaning it.

 

[mindaugas]

windows 8 is what we call a transitional o/s

that makes a lot of sense. Coming from the server side it's prob equivalent to going from 2008 to R2.

 

[rgauchey]

Right now I'm thinking....Windows Vist8. Or maybe windows 8sta. Only because this reminds me of my first esperiences with Vista.

 

[gazz9496]

windows 8 is what we call a transitional o/s

that makes a lot of sense. Coming from the server side it's prob equivalent to going from 2008 to R2.

sadly i'm not that familiar with server 2008 to R2.

windows 8 is like a warning of things to come for software developers giving them a chance to shift with the industry.

 

[Ray8]

If Microsoft ditch the desktop completely and Modern doesn't change to suit, then Apple/Linux will be rubbing their hands with glee.

 

[LovingWindows]

If Microsoft ditch the desktop completely and Modern doesn't change to suit, then Apple/Linux will be rubbing their hands with glee.

Windows 8 has just already nearly surpassed Linux marketshare in the first month.

 

[Ray8]

Everything surpasses Linux at the moment, and probably will into the foreseeable future. Interesting sideline, however, that Ubuntu appears to have been overtaken by Mint, because of Ubuntu's decision to run with the Unity interface, which the vast majority hate with a passion. Mint provides a traditional interface and users don't have to do mods like with Ubuntu to get back the Gnome interface (aka Windows 8 and the desktop start button).

What I'm talking about is that if there was no desktop whatsoever and people had to use just the Modern interface, it would come to a grinding halt, as far as the corporate sector and many other users are concerned. There are a vast number of people who need the ability to do things on multiple screens, with multiple programs running concurrently and visible next to each other. All the Modern interface offers is one app at a time on one screen. I certainly couldn't find a way to open two or more apps at a time and have them visible on different screens, or the one screen.

And why would the Modern interface work in any other way, now or in the future? The interface experience is designed to be the same whether you're using a mobile phone, tablet, PC, TV, kiosk or whatever. If that's what one has to look forward to in Windows 8, I think a lot of people will start to consider their options, once Windows 7 is no longer supported. And that's leaving aside how third party programs are supposed to work on a one screen, unchangeable, interface.

 

[mbratch]

If Microsoft ditch the desktop completely and Modern doesn't change to suit, then Apple/Linux will be rubbing their hands with glee.

Windows 8 has just already nearly surpassed Linux marketshare in the first month.

Pretty easily done when MS has a sweet deal with laptop and PC manufacturers to encourage its preload on many systems going out the door. But that's a discussion for different thread.