Windows 8 Flack

[GoodBytes]

Actually his issues with the search feature never existed. In his example of searching "printer", it searches everything you simply just have to click settings after searching, you don't have to click settings before hand as he suggested. The OS isn't broken because you don't know how to use it, you're just ignorant (nice way to say stupid).

huh? I know what we said.

 -> Win+W to jump directly to search for Settings

 -> And, like I said, in Win8.1 it's solved (searches everywhere, including Modern UI apps, and Web), also the search was improved over WIn7. You could see that they were working on this before, but didn't have time to finish in time for Win8.

[fracking4oil]

huh? I know what we said.

 -> Win+W to jump directly to search for Settings

 -> And, like I said, in Win8.1 it's solved (searches everywhere, including Modern UI apps, and Web), also the search was improved over WIn7. You could see that they were working on this before, but didn't have time to finish in time for Win8.

 

 

My point is that when you do a search in Win 8 it searches everything in all three categories, you just have to select the correct category to see the results. If you do a search by default (charms menu) it tells you next to each category how many results it found in each. Is it really that difficult to select one of three categories or use the correct win key shortcut to go directly to the category you want? 

 

 

 

[hehehehhehehehe]

Actually his issues with the search feature never existed. In his example of searching "printer", it searches everything you simply just have to click settings after searching, you don't have to click settings before hand as he suggested. The OS isn't broken because you don't know how to use it, you're just ignorant (nice way to say stupid).

While you are right and I completely agree with you.... He was stating that he didn't like having to switch tabs to find what he was looking for..

[TheArium]

While you are right and I completely agree with you.... He was stating that he didn't like having to switch tabs to find what he was looking for..

 

- Which is being fixed in 8.1 so we're all good 

[hehehehhehehehe]

- Which is being fixed in 8.1 so we're all good 

Yeah, which was what I said originally

[Scia]

I'm using Windows 8 both on my main PC and my Laptop.

 

On my main PC I use "StartIsBack" as my primary  Start Menu, yet I enjoy being able to put stuff like my bin to the start screen so I can have a completely empty desktop.

 

My Laptop [sony Vaio Pro 13] is touch enabled and while I still think the Metro Apps are the most useless thing ever, the Start Screen itself is rather handy. I got StartIsBack installed on the laptop aswell, but I rarely use it [mostly for shutdown].

 

My experience with Windows 8 has been very positive so far. A lot snappier than Windows 7 Ultimate!

I have encountered one single problem, which is a bad Windows Update which fucks up sfc /scannow and disk cleaner. But a simple command will resolve that issue and everyone is happy.

I have not experienced any compatibility issues with games be it ancient or new games.

Really don't see a reason to not at least use Win 8 Pro with something like StartISBack over Windows 7. Much better OS IMHO. 

[TheRisingMyth]

I mostly agree with the author of the topic, why skip the new software and get the older/slower one while you can just mod it and be fine with it ? Also the ribbon on explorer is the best thing that every happened to file managers to this very moment.

 

And also, just to clarify something, i really suggest that you force yourself to use ModernUI for almost a week.

 

People would just judge based on the very first experience, which is wrong, tell me if i'm crazy, but i'm much much more productive with the way they've rearranged everything on the start menu, and i sometimes use the apps when i'm not doing serious multitasking and heavy work, it's awesome and refreshing.

 

And for those crying out loud about compatibility, let me put this straight :

 

Microsoft won't skimp on new features just to be compatible with your crappy old hardware.

 

Let that sink in for a second.

 

If you're planning to run Windows 8, update the hell out of everything to get the most diserable performance benefits, also, don't pass on automatic updates, i can't emphesis on this enough, it is huge and very important.

[Ninety1Nine]

My experience with windows 8 has been amazing. I moved straight from XP to 8 at home, but I have had extensive experience with 7 at work and other places.

However I have tried to convince other who love windows 8 and they always tell me the main reason is that it is slower. One case specifically was a friend of mine trying to use 8 on an old AMD dual core @1.3GHz laptop. Some apps (Netflix for example) wouldn't even start. The only thing I can say to them is get a better computer, which of course they aren't interested in hearing.

Do any of you have a solution or know the cause for the significant slow down other than buying a new computer?

[GoodBytes]

Modern UI apps are full GPU accelerated. So it sounds to me that their laptop don't have Windows 8 drivers, or forgot to install them. They are probably using Windows generic drivers, which (same as the motherboard chipset), will cause reduce performance on the overall experience (and crashes on some apps).

[RankUpGamers]

I don't see having mice that run at high DPI's and then wasting screen real-estate with buttons that are WAY to big for their job. If this was 1990 when we had 6 PPI, the UI would have been marginally correct sized. Even on a decently high accuracy touch screen, I found windows 7 to work FINE! 

I've had 2 windows 8 devices, and I've had to use classicstart to function normally. I survived on the first one for 1 month before giving up! Microsoft doesn't care about any users opinions. I can see why they wanted to make windows 8 the way they did, but didn't they go and ask a normal human before selling it?

But opinions are opinions... so

[GoodBytes]

You got it on reverse. Because you have high DPI, your small movement of the mouse travel the mouse smoothly with fine control, really far on the screen. Using an old mouse on a large screen, requires long distance. Increasing the mouse speed, will make the mouse jump and lose precision.

 

Also, you should not have to move across such large distance, as all your most used folders, and programs are suppose to be pinned on the left and bottom area of the screen, and pinned on your task bar.

 

Microsoft cares about users opinion, but also cares about:

 -> Innovation.

 -> Being on top of the technology advancement and changes.

 -> Survival.

 -> Telemetry data on how people use their product to improve it

[TheArium]

I don't see having mice that run at high DPI's and then wasting screen real-estate with buttons that are WAY to big for their job. If this was 1990 when we had 6 PPI, the UI would have been marginally correct sized. Even on a decently high accuracy touch screen, I found windows 7 to work FINE! 

I've had 2 windows 8 devices, and I've had to use classicstart to function normally. I survived on the first one for 1 month before giving up! Microsoft doesn't care about any users opinions. I can see why they wanted to make windows 8 the way they did, but didn't they go and ask a normal human before selling it?

But opinions are opinions... so

 

On top of what GoodBytes said I would like to add that in 8.1 you can make the tiles even smaller which should address what you are saying here.

[ultimatemythbuster]

I stopped reading the OP's post after the first line.  

 

Anyway,

 

I will not use Windows 8 on my main machine because Windows 7 is working perfectly fine for me at present.  And it will continue to work for years to come.  By the time I would need to leave Windows 7, a new version of Windows will be out.  Maybe I will like that one better (in terms of design), or maybe it will be time for me to completely switch to a Linux distro while using Windows in a VM for the times that I might need Windows.