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I have had Windows 8 for over 9 months and haven't messed with Modern UI much if at all. Classic Shell makes that possible.

I've yet to hit compatibility issues with Windows 8 that couldn't be fixed by running it in compatiblity mode for Windows 7. Bioshock 1 is an example, the sound wouldn't work until I switched to Windows 7 compatibility mode. Then everything was fine.

 

It's true, there are workarounds, but it's the principle that bothers me. A commercial os should NOT need a user developed tweak to work correctly. Furthermore I refuse to give them my money and show that I'm ok with the current state of things. Apparently a lot of people agree with me and the message was received by ms which apparently will allow users to deactivate completely modern ui in win9. As for compatibility, I never thought that was a problem, in that case I was comparing win7 to linux.

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CrunchBang Linux is amazing! I am using it right now, definitely a good distro.

Ah yeah. It's so beautiful right out of the Box. (pun intended)

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I use stardock's start 8 (I think it was $5)

 

So I'm supposed to pay to properly use a commercial os I already paid a lot for? Do operating systems have dlc too now?

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Ah yeah. It's so beautiful right out of the Box. (pun intended)

 

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Wait are you one of those crazies that does nothing but run live distros?

 

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Wait are you one of those crazies that does nothing but run live distros?

 

:)

 

nah, but I tried quite a few a couple of years ago out of curiosity ^^

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So I'm supposed to pay to properly use a commercial os I already paid a lot for? Do operating systems have dlc too now?

Oh I'm not saying you should, or believe that I should have, it was just a solution I found once I made the Windows 8 jump (I think I jumped a little too early... but I was upgrading and rebuilding my home computer from a hackintosh with Mountain Lion to a Windows-only machine. I just assumed the latest OS would be the best. The last version of Windows I used as the main OS on my home computer was 2000. I then used XP and 7 in a VM to run Windows applications.

 

But to be fair, I barely used the dock on OSX, I used spotlight to open an application. CMD-Space to open spotlight. Type "au" to find autocad, hit enter. Open! My dock was bare minimum, mostly browsers, word processing, system preferences, XBMC and torrent app. I find it weird having to use the start menu, navigating through a jungle with my mouse as a machete. And I hate a cluttered desktop... So, yeah, even though start 8 is an improvement, I still find it a drawback.

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I like to play games so windows is the only one that works with majority of the games.

Also, I don't use windows 8 on my main PC. I do however have it on my laptop.

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nah, but I tried quite a few a couple of years ago out of curiosity ^^

Ah, the "distro binge." We've all had at least one. I do it yearly the week before christmas so I know what to install on hardware I get and on hardware I give to people.

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Ah, the "distro binge." We've all had at least one. I do it yearly the week before christmas so I know what to install on hardware I get and on hardware I give to people.

 

haha glad to know I'm not the only one ^^

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haha glad to know I'm not the only one ^^

By the way I love your sig.

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By the way I love your sig.

 

:D I found it on the ubuntu forum lol

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:D I found it on the ubuntu forum lol

It's from xkcd.com you know. 

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It's from xkcd.com you know. 

now I do

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now I do

He makes a lot of good comics. He also lives around three towns away from me.

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Like everyone else said, the game support, and the fact that I have grown up using windows on a PC, so im kinda use to it 

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Grew up with windows 95-XP (21yro) so i know it like the back of my hand, cant game on OSX and i dont game on PC anyway but its either Windows or OSX (Linux is great actually enjoy playing around with LinuxMint)

 

and its safe to say 75% of people on this website built thier PC.

 

think of where on the net you are asking this question.

 

I could join a halo forum and paste this Q there, ya know.

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Those god damn AAA devs are not porting their games to Linux. Oh and also Adobe softwares, if they ported them, Linux could have destroyed M$.

...and Autodesk, Maxon, NewTek etc... productivity software is lacking big time on Linux.

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...and Autodesk, Maxon, NewTek etc... productivity software is lacking big time on Linux.

Those specific pieces of productivity software are, but there is plenty of productivity software for Linux. Blender for example can replace at least one of those as well I believe.

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Those specific pieces of productivity software are, but there is plenty of productivity software for Linux. Blender for example can replace at least one of those as well I believe.

I wouldn't say there's plenty of productivity software for Linux. Take 3D as an example. You only have Blender as an somewhat worthy alternative.

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Windows is love, windows is life.

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