Win 8 Apps On The Desktop
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I've recently upgraded my home desktop (actually desk - I installed the computer in the desk!) to Win 8.1. Now that I've uninstalled most of Apps, disabled the Metro crap and installed ClassicShell it's hardly different to what I'm used to (I'm happy about that). I can't help feeling that I must be missing some point though - I can't imagine when, on a desktop, I'd want to run an 'App' rather than run a program from the desktop the normal (proper?) way. Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop? If so, which ones and why? It just feels to me like you are trying to run your desktop in 'kiosk' mode - why would you want to do that?
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I've recently upgraded my home desktop (actually desk - I installed the computer in the desk!) to Win 8.1. Now that I've uninstalled most of Apps, disabled the Metro crap and installed ClassicShell it's hardly different to what I'm used to (I'm happy about that). I can't help feeling that I must be missing some point though - I can't imagine when, on a desktop, I'd want to run an 'App' rather than run a program from the desktop the normal (proper?) way. Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop? If so, which ones and why? It just feels to me like you are trying to run your desktop in 'kiosk' mode - why would you want to do that?
No, not really. When the kids are on the computer, it can come handy, since they cannot click on something else or close the window, but apart from that... I am a big fan of the tiles for launching programs, though.
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I've recently upgraded my home desktop (actually desk - I installed the computer in the desk!) to Win 8.1. Now that I've uninstalled most of Apps, disabled the Metro crap and installed ClassicShell it's hardly different to what I'm used to (I'm happy about that). I can't help feeling that I must be missing some point though - I can't imagine when, on a desktop, I'd want to run an 'App' rather than run a program from the desktop the normal (proper?) way. Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop? If so, which ones and why? It just feels to me like you are trying to run your desktop in 'kiosk' mode - why would you want to do that?
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The only thing that bugs me about the Metro apps is the lack of features compared to the desktop versions they were meant to replace.
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I've recently upgraded my home desktop (actually desk - I installed the computer in the desk!) to Win 8.1. Now that I've uninstalled most of Apps, disabled the Metro crap and installed ClassicShell it's hardly different to what I'm used to (I'm happy about that). I can't help feeling that I must be missing some point though - I can't imagine when, on a desktop, I'd want to run an 'App' rather than run a program from the desktop the normal (proper?) way. Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop? If so, which ones and why? It just feels to me like you are trying to run your desktop in 'kiosk' mode - why would you want to do that?
I run two apps regularly. The News App is very decent, it fits so well, cant imagine it to be a desktop app, ever. The second is the Music App, especially because you can clip it to a side of the monitor.
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That's exactly the reason it feels 'kiosky' to me - its like Windows is saying "I'm capable of much more than this, but I'm only LETTING you do THIS much"...
It seems the Metro apps are scaled to run on the ARM/RT system. Why, here I am with an 8 core CPU and 32 GB of RAM, and the stupid Reader App won't let me open more than 5 PDF documents. Even if they are only one page each. And nothing else is running on the PC. 5 measly documents. Grrrr.
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I've recently upgraded my home desktop (actually desk - I installed the computer in the desk!) to Win 8.1. Now that I've uninstalled most of Apps, disabled the Metro crap and installed ClassicShell it's hardly different to what I'm used to (I'm happy about that). I can't help feeling that I must be missing some point though - I can't imagine when, on a desktop, I'd want to run an 'App' rather than run a program from the desktop the normal (proper?) way. Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop? If so, which ones and why? It just feels to me like you are trying to run your desktop in 'kiosk' mode - why would you want to do that?
Kyudos wrote:
Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop?
I also used to shy away from the metro apps when I first started out on Windows 8 but now run a few regularly. Weather, News, Health & Fitness, Calendar, mZip, Book Bazaar Reader, VLC (Metro), My Notes, Maps, Alarms, Music, Calculator, Reading List, Video. To name a few. Like anything else they are strange at first but once you learn to use them they become the new regular way of doing things. And no I do not need a start button, the start page is a better way of doing things.
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The only thing that bugs me about the Metro apps is the lack of features compared to the desktop versions they were meant to replace.
I don't think the Metro apps were ever intended to replace desktop apps. They provide something different/new which is intended to be more appropriate for a touch screen. But they don't replace the desktop.
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Kyudos wrote:
Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop?
I also used to shy away from the metro apps when I first started out on Windows 8 but now run a few regularly. Weather, News, Health & Fitness, Calendar, mZip, Book Bazaar Reader, VLC (Metro), My Notes, Maps, Alarms, Music, Calculator, Reading List, Video. To name a few. Like anything else they are strange at first but once you learn to use them they become the new regular way of doing things. And no I do not need a start button, the start page is a better way of doing things.
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And no I do not need a start button, the start page is a better way of doing things.
Each-to-their-own I guess, but I'm afraid I'm in the 'text-driven' camp :) I never used the 'desktop' the way I see some people use it - hundreds of icons! I typically have a link to the computer, the network and the recycle bin (although I don't use that either). I have browsers on quick launch and that's it (at home anyway, at work I have a few more links, but not many). It's why I still despise the ribbon - menus are just so much more efficient (for me) - and I prefer the 'old' style multi-column start menu.