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RE: Which windows OS do you like?
December 22, 2013 at 1:08 am
I use 7 Enterprise at work, 7 Professional on my laptop, and 8 on my media center.
I'm convinced that that the Windows 8 user interface was designed by lemurs on a cocktail of LSD, crystal meth, and cough syrup.
Once you get used to it, you can get around fine, but it seems to me that they went out of their way to hide, well, everything - there's no damn visual cues how to pull up the start screen, the charms bar, or anything else. Plus the start screen is just a fucking brain-damaged design for anyone unfortunate enough to be using a touchpad on a high-resolution screen.
On my media center, I don't care, because I run a single application and use an android remote control app to control it. If I was forced to use 8 on my laptop, I'd seriously consider getting a Macbook.
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RE: Which windows OS do you like?
February 21, 2014 at 11:23 am
Nothing much about the GUI changed in the transition from windows 7 to 8 , so i'm staying with 7 .
although the threading thing is great in windows 8.
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RE: Which windows OS do you like?
February 21, 2014 at 4:27 pm
The first time I tried Windoze 8 I hated it, but I have been playing with 8.1 for a few weeks now, once I worked out how to get rid of the stupid "Start Screen", got rid of the "Charm bar" and added software to put the start button back it's not that bad! It boots faster than my win 7 machine and seems stable. The only problem I had was it didn't recognise my (very old) wireless card but a usb dongle worked fine.
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RE: Which windows OS do you like?
February 21, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Hate windows in general. When forced to use it, I prefer XP. I'm a Linux/OSX guy.
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RE: Which windows OS do you like?
February 23, 2014 at 3:46 am
(December 21, 2013 at 5:28 am)Stimbo Wrote: I've always had a soft spot for XP, since that was the first one I had once I got access to my own pc (before that I was an Amiga guy). Since that gave up the ghost and went to silicon heaven, I've had Vista on our laptop but found it so incredibly unusable, in fact almost an unfinished version of the Windows 7 I now use all the time. It does pretty much everything I want it to do, apart from having an inbuilt stereo mixer option to allow direct recording of pc sound. I miss that.
I was initially put off Windows 8, having heard some horror stories about how user unfriendly it is and how it basically turns your pc into a glorified iphone complete with apps but without the user friendliness. However, having sampled a laptop of someone else who was also W8-sceptic (and in fact told me how lousy it was) I have to say I wouldn't mind running it myself. Still, in the meantime I'll be happy with my W7; and if anyone has any suggestions how to record live pc sounds in the absence of the stereo mixer option, I'll happily listen.
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