its still garbage
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especially 8.1
[QUOTE=abcpea;43065872]its still garbage
[editline]4th December 2013[/editline]
especially 8.1[/QUOTE]
opinions
I installed w8 last week. I think it's fine.
I've had a bit of experience with Win8 on my cousin's laptop.
I'd much rather have Win7 but, opinions.
[img]http://puu.sh/5BPd0.png[/img]
That's what I thought.
it just windows 7 except they changed some of the interface and made it more confusing and difficult to use and then 8.1 adds the exciting new feature of breaking your wifi and then reverting back to 8 breaks ALL of your programs and you have to reinstall them all.
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and ffs they arent called apps they are called programs
[QUOTE=abcpea;43065936]it just windows 7 except they changed some of the interface and made it more confusing and difficult to use and then 8.1 adds the exciting new feature of breaking your wifi and then reverting back to 8 breaks ALL of your programs and you have to reinstall them all.
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and ffs they arent called apps they are called programs[/QUOTE]
Are you shitting me dude?
[QUOTE=abcpea;43065936]8.1 adds the exciting new feature of breaking your wifi and then reverting back to 8 breaks ALL of your programs and you have to reinstall them all.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, because a half-new, half-just-an-upgrade OS that was released just a little over a month ago totally isn't going to have some bugs and kinks that will be fleshed out and fixed over time. It just [I]has[/I] to be perfect on release or it instantly becomes the worst thing to happen to humanity since Hitler rose to power, huh?
it doesnt have to be perfect, it just has to not effectively brick my laptop
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especially since it gave me a full-screen "UPDATE TO WINDOWS 8.1 NOW DONT WORRY YOU CAN UNINSTALL IT I PROMISE" dialog
I have 8 on my laptop, I don't hate it though I do prefer Windows 7. If it was a touchscreen laptop I'd probably like Win8 much more.
As someone who's dealt with windows 8 in a work environment, it's really not that bad, however, I do dislike the whole tablet style of it, it's inefficient. People who come on courses who aren't that good with PCs, who came for basic courses get mega confused with it, and it's a pain to have to teach everyone its use. Although the changes may seem unimportant to some of you, it's a fact that it does affect people, and unfortunately, sometimes you need to think of other people.
I think some decisions in windows 8 were bad ones, but the operating system itself isn't bad, it just feels a bit underwhelming.
I had W8 and went through a shit ton of effort to replace it with W7.
I didn't mind the tablet-style replacement for the start menu, but tons of drivers just didn't work, from printers to WiFi to graphic tablets, the tablet menus create weird design double standards like split system settings and different window close mechanisms and hidden task bar substitutes not marked by buttons but off screen unless you check all corners. Obviously there also were also some general compatibility problems with W7 and lower applications.
I also heard that W8.1 broke more than it wanted to fix, and some of what it wanted to fix it either didn't or worse than third party support did. It was released after I jumped ship tho.
So from my perspective it's just style over functionality with no pull factors (unless you count the DirectX exclusivity war). But I guess as W8 becomes the standard Windows shipped with preconfig PCs it's only going to be more popular.
Wondows 8 is pretty great imho
It´s just that getting to it is too hard for people who are not much into PCs.
W8.1 is like Speedy Gonzales against W7 though. Not that much, but still by a big margin.
[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;43066115]
W8.1 is like Speedy Gonzales against W7 though. Not that much, but still by a big margin.[/QUOTE]
What is this even?
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Also it's good to see people finally leaving XP and Vista to 7 and 8.1
Its a great OS. Turn it into Windows 7 with all the necessary tweaks and its fine. Debating updating 8.1 though after hearing all the problems with mouses in games and the like.
Which games?
I am playing Dota 2 and AoE 2 totally fine.
Might be a drivers issue/not updating drivers.
[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062425/microsoft-fixes-windows-8-1-mouse-issues-but-not-for-all-games.html[/url]
This. Apparently according them they fixed it. But you have to do this weird shit to every game that has the problem. Cba to have to do that to every game. Annoying.
I love windows 8, the only time I have to use metro is when I log on..
It buggers me though why Microsoft just didn´t patched this.
You have the infrastructure already layed down :L
I've been using Windows 8.1 at school.
Still prefer Windows 7, yeah Windows 8.1 starts faster but besides that I don't see any other benefits over Windows 7, a faster startup time doesn't justify the 120 price tag to me either.
Anyway opinions.
[QUOTE=Neddy;43066316][url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062425/microsoft-fixes-windows-8-1-mouse-issues-but-not-for-all-games.html[/url]
This. Apparently according them they fixed it. But you have to do this weird shit to every game that has the problem. Cba to have to do that to every game. Annoying.[/QUOTE]
Just do it for explorer.exe or any other process that always runs in the background, that way the "fix" will always be active
[QUOTE=Satane;43066847]Yeah no, windows 8 takes longer than windows 7 to start on my pc. Windows 7 was something like 20 seconds and 8 is about 25.[/QUOTE]
Then your Windows 8 installation is really fucked up. The new fast boot thing in Windows 8 cuts out like 80% of the startup process by just hibernating a big chunk of it instead of doing the entire routine every single time you boot.
I use windows 8 on my work PC and at home and have experienced no issues yet..
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;43066643]I've been using Windows 8.1 at school.
Still prefer Windows 7, yeah Windows 8.1 starts faster but besides that I don't see any other benefits over Windows 7, a faster startup time doesn't justify the 120 price tag to me either.
Anyway opinions.[/QUOTE]
Well, the upgrade offer was $20 (or thereabouts) at launch, so it could've a lot cheaper than that. Anyway, Windows 8.1 is simply faster overall - my 4 year old laptop with a 5400RPM drive and an i3 330M is much more responsive than some of my classmates' Windows 7 laptops with better internals. I also noticed a huge improvement after I upgraded on both my desktop and laptop.
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;43066763]Just do it for explorer.exe or any other process that always runs in the background, that way the "fix" will always be active[/QUOTE]
Does that actually work?
[QUOTE=Neddy;43067729]Does that actually work?[/QUOTE]
It does for me, my mouse now reports the correct 500Hz polling rate in everything, instead of the ~60 it used to before I did that.
I just don't really care to upgrade, I'm good with 7.
Just updated and it broke explorer and everything I try to use gives me the every 'Class not registered' Well this is nice. Oh and the added 20 second time for it now needing to use my hotmail to login. GG Microsoft. GG
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