(July 8, 2015 at 1:29 pm)emjay Wrote: Okay I'll write to the seller and let you know what they say and try to find a local computer repair shop to take a look at it.Good is subjective. Objectively, it is fast, and except for the annoying start menu which can be modified with a setting, there is little about it that's a big departure from Windows 7.
I have to admit I don't like Microsoft, or indeed any company that gets too big for its boots and starts dictating what customers should want rather than what they do want, but at the same time I do trust and value your opinion so if you say Windows 8 is good, it's good
I'm pro-MS, because they've provided free tools that a hobby programmer can use: Visual Studio, .NET, DirectX, etc., which Apple has traditionally NOT been good at doing. And Windows provides a very consistent framework that you can depend on being the same from computer to computer, which in my limited experience is not the case with Linux, which is much more hacky and individual (again, in my limited experience).
