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Is Windows 8 good now

UNuniQueLY
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Ok so I want to give windows 8 a try on my super budget system i'm going to make because I can move it went I build my expensive system. My question is windows 8 good now I know the majority of people hated it went it came out but has it improve or does it look like the os will become good over time or is it doom.

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with startisback it is really good.

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Windows 8 is better than Windows 7. 

Get it if you don't mind the formatting. Otherwise, stick with 7.

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It's actually pretty good, and most of the hate was just bandwagon and from power/professional users losing or having some features changed.

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Install StartIsBack and enjoy your Windows 8 experience.

 

But if you don't mind me asking. If it's a "super budget system" wouldn't the OS be a great place to safe some money? You can get Ubuntu or Mint for free

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Install StartIsBack and enjoy your Windows 8 experience.

 

But if you don't mind me asking. If it's a "super budget system" wouldn't the OS be a great place to safe some money? You can get Ubuntu or Mint for free

I'm thinking using Ubuntu too and haven't heard of mint.

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Install StartIsBack and enjoy your Windows 8 experience.

 

But if you don't mind me asking. If it's a "super budget system" wouldn't the OS be a great place to safe some money? You can get Ubuntu or Mint for free

You can get windows 8 for small fee of a few mouse clicks, too.

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You can get windows 8 for small fee of a few mouse clicks, too.

If you mean free I don't do that.

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I'm thinking using Ubuntu too and haven't heard of mint.

Like Ubuntu, Mint is s Linux based system. I prefer Mint over Ubuntu because you can get it with the Cinamon Desktop as default

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Was never a problem with Windows 8 from the get go, people are just anal about not having a start menu, must of which had never even used Windows 8 or if they had they had a very limited time with it.

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Was never a problem with Windows 8 from the get go, people are just anal about not having a start menu, must of which had never even used Windows 8 or if they had they had a very limited time with it.

It doesn't matter for this build but I heard some games are bad on windows 8.

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UNuniQueLY, on 29 Jul 2013 - 12:15 AM, said:

It doesn't matter for this build but I heard some games are bad on windows 8.

Well in my experience, everything that runs in Windows 7 runs just as well if not better in Windows 8.

Edited: Btw, I've been using it since launch day...

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I love Windows 8 Professional. I had literally NO problems running whatever crap or game I had running on Windows 7 on 8. Hell Windows 8 boots faster, runs games smoother, and is overall a good experience. Don't fall into the bandwagon, Windows 8 is a great OS that still has yet to grow

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People that get worked up about the start menu being gone in windows 8 don't realize how pointless it really was.

Everything you would want it to do you can do much faster with more options in windows 8.

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Had windows 8 now for a month, i play all my games fine! 

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People that get worked up about the start menu being gone in windows 8 don't realize how pointless it really was.

Everything you would want it to do you can do much faster with more options in windows 8.

Exactly, it's actually much easier to do thing than it was before, and you can do so much more.

 

Had windows 8 now for a month, i play all my games fine! 

I'm able to run games on my craptop that I wasn't able to before, so i'm really happy about that.

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Windows 8 has always been good, people just hate change.. The thing about Windows 8 is that, the new start menu is very useless, so just get 8Start and you got an awesome OS.

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Exactly, it's actually much easier to do thing than it was before, and you can do so much more.

 

I'm able to run games on my craptop that I wasn't able to before, so i'm really happy about that.

to run 'better' games its all hardware wise.

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I hope so, 

 

I just bought 2 licenses for my main PC and main Laptop.

 

Also bought Startisback so no annoying metro start up for me

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Windows 8 has always been good, people just hate change.. The thing about Windows 8 is that, the new start menu is very useless, so just get 8Start and you got an awesome OS.

 

 

I actually like the start screen, I just keep it up on my secondary monitor, which works better on Win 8.1 than it does in 8.0.

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to run 'better' games its all hardware wise.

Windows 8 takes up less resources in some areas, so I'm actually able to take advantage of those now available resources..

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