Windows 8 on my desktop, or not?
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I am wondering about installing Windows 8 on my desktop... I'm so undecided that I'm asking other people's opinions!!!! (And yes I got a licence of it, thanks to an MSDN subscription coming with my job! ;P ) On one hand, everytime the OS jumps on the metro UI I get cranky.. :/ + I will have to reinstall all my steam games... (a couple of days of download!!!) and other apps.. :/ On the other hand I can setup my system to skip it (the start screen) most time!! (using the taskbar + taskbar's toolbar, as I do on my Win7!!) (Using it on my old laptop now) And, this way, I could develop / play with Metro app on my desktop instead of having 2 keyboards to juggle with (old laptop + desktop) mmm.. wondering if I can cope with the annoying metro effect... I guess once I will get used to it on the laptop, I'll upgrade the desktop... [Edit] One strong pro, I'd rather use my powerful desktop instead of my old laptop to... Play, mix and match DirectX11 (in C++) and XAML (in C#), which WinRT and Windows 8 is the best at!
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I'm just going to sit this one out. I'm fine with W7 the way it is. I'm tired of retooling my boxes everytime MS decides on a new "standard". This one (W8) is a loser as far as I'm concerned - at least as a desktop O/S. I'll keep the one I got.
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Why not install it on a virtual box and kick it around a bit until you finally decide that it is the stinking corpse of a skunk and toss it in the garbage?
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Why not install it on a virtual box and kick it around a bit until you finally decide that it is the stinking corpse of a skunk and toss it in the garbage?
Precisely what I did. I aimed for the center of that particular garbage can and got a 2-pointer! -CB
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After two months of use I now prefer the Win 8 start screen nav . . . . no more fighting with mousing over stacks of sub menus and searching lists of folders.
Since Windows 7 was released i seldom use the Start Menu, usually either my programs are pinned to the taskbar or i just click the Windows key and start typing the name of the program i wanted to use, althought using a Microsoft mouse i've been able to assign an additional button to act as the Windows key so i can use only the mouse to navigate the Start Screen and Metro apps in Windows 8.
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I am wondering about installing Windows 8 on my desktop... I'm so undecided that I'm asking other people's opinions!!!! (And yes I got a licence of it, thanks to an MSDN subscription coming with my job! ;P ) On one hand, everytime the OS jumps on the metro UI I get cranky.. :/ + I will have to reinstall all my steam games... (a couple of days of download!!!) and other apps.. :/ On the other hand I can setup my system to skip it (the start screen) most time!! (using the taskbar + taskbar's toolbar, as I do on my Win7!!) (Using it on my old laptop now) And, this way, I could develop / play with Metro app on my desktop instead of having 2 keyboards to juggle with (old laptop + desktop) mmm.. wondering if I can cope with the annoying metro effect... I guess once I will get used to it on the laptop, I'll upgrade the desktop... [Edit] One strong pro, I'd rather use my powerful desktop instead of my old laptop to... Play, mix and match DirectX11 (in C++) and XAML (in C#), which WinRT and Windows 8 is the best at!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Have a look at Start8[^] Start8 brings the "Start" menu back to Windows 8
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I get a kick out of this. Upgrade to Win8, then retrofit it to look like 7. Why not just keep 7? There's really nothing about 8 that's much of an improvement: nothing that will really matter. If you don't want Metro just don't upgrade. 7 will be supported for another 8 years anyway and even then it won't just break because MS decides to stop updating it! This constant upgrade train gets really silly sometimes. Let's upgrade! There's nothing wrong with what we got but we're getting BORED so let's upgrade! Sheesh! -CB :rolleyes:
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I am wondering about installing Windows 8 on my desktop... I'm so undecided that I'm asking other people's opinions!!!! (And yes I got a licence of it, thanks to an MSDN subscription coming with my job! ;P ) On one hand, everytime the OS jumps on the metro UI I get cranky.. :/ + I will have to reinstall all my steam games... (a couple of days of download!!!) and other apps.. :/ On the other hand I can setup my system to skip it (the start screen) most time!! (using the taskbar + taskbar's toolbar, as I do on my Win7!!) (Using it on my old laptop now) And, this way, I could develop / play with Metro app on my desktop instead of having 2 keyboards to juggle with (old laptop + desktop) mmm.. wondering if I can cope with the annoying metro effect... I guess once I will get used to it on the laptop, I'll upgrade the desktop... [Edit] One strong pro, I'd rather use my powerful desktop instead of my old laptop to... Play, mix and match DirectX11 (in C++) and XAML (in C#), which WinRT and Windows 8 is the best at!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
I have mixed emotions on this too. On the one hand I need to stay up to date on developing applications to run on Microsoft's newer platforms. On the other I really don't like Metro. I though oh how wonderful someone found a way to disable it and go back to the Windows 7 look, then they locked it out of the RC and I'm sure the release. I'm thinking this is the year Linux gains more ground. I've recently played with a debian release that strongly resembles Windows 7 in looks and feel. This will make it so much more appealing to those that are currently using windows 7 and don't want to switch to 8 because of metro. The same thing can be said of businesses. They can upgrade workstations with SolusOS and employees won't have much of a problem relearning the system. Granted there are some that will say otherwise that switching to Windows 8 and heading straight to the desktop will be just as easy but I still feel it was a bad move on Microsoft's part to not allow the option to have either look available. You don't jump straight into a new OS without having some backward compatibility. This is apparently what they want to do on the UI.
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Shortcuts? Why you need them?, it's a touch OS. :laugh:
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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If you are a developer I'd go ahead and make the jump so that you aren't so far behind when the next version of Windows comes around. Saw this alot when people stuck with XP and Vista came out (I know it wasn't great). Some developers ignored Vista, then when Win7 came out they were way behind in getting their programs up to speed (especially concerning security), where the jump form Vista to 7 was small. Even if you don't like Win8, there will be people using your software that will use Win8, will your software be ready?
good points! ;)
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Super Lloyd wrote:
I will have to reinstall all my steam games... (a couple of days of download!!!)
You don't need to re-download all your steam games. Backup your Steam directory to another disk, copy it back again once you've installed 'Weight' Run the Steam exe and install to the same directory that you copied your backup back to.
Thanks for the tip! :)
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Is a mess when using it with two screens. You don't really know where metro is going to pop up.
Haha! ^^
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Keith Rule wrote:
3) You can only close apps with the mouse. Yes, really. This one just boggles my mind.
What abt alt+F4 ?
Oops, your quite right. I meant to say mouse or keyboard. But that's still a bit of an issue on a tablet.
Keith Rule