There is nothing in this world more that I hate than when I'm forced to use Windows fucking 8. It's so flashy and pretentious It makes me wish I was dead, I hate it so much, I want to shoot it in the head. What's with the stupid apps? They make me fucking groan This is a computer, you assholes, not a fucking Iphone. Why does it take twenty steps to do something that it used to take one? And why for the love of god, is the start menu gone? Why do I have to use fucking hotkeys and right click to switch the apps on and off, when before it was so much easier to put the little "X" at the top? What the fuck is "Xbox video?" This is driving me berserk! It plays videos all choppy, Why doesn't it fucking work? The stupid rainbow colored start page, makes my eyes want to bleed, Why does it take twenty minutes, to find the program that I need? When it needs to restart to install updates, It's such a fucking hassle, I have to stop doing my work, Because there is no way to cancel. The UI sucks ass, The user experience, irate, Fuck you, Microsoft, and Fuck Windows fucking 8.
While I agree Win8 is terrible... there are free alternatives http://livecdlist.com/ if you don't want to downgrade or switch to Mac.
Love the poem. Made my day. Although I still haven't given Windows 8 a full chance I really have no desire to after looking at it. Besides I like my Start "Menu"
What takes twenty steps? No idea, try harder. It starts bugging you after a day of needing a reboot and you can cancel that a couple of times before it finally gives up on you. You can disable that though: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-stop-windows-8-updates-from-force-restarting-your-pc/ You can hate that this isn't the default, but forcing people to reboot eventually is a good thing.
Your meter is really bad in some parts: "Why does it take twenty steps/to do something that it used to take one?" and "When it needs to restart to install updates/It's such a fucking hassle", for example.
I hate the new trend around it. And I'll never use it. Even the Office is white with pathetic colors. What the hell are they thinking... They was super sophisticated in Vista, a bit hipster in Seven (I still don't understand the plants) and are totally pathetic with this ugly colors and stupid cellphone system. This is worse than those cheap keyboards with different layout that some gay designer thought about inovating some shit. I hope the person responsible for this at Microsoft put the Corporation in a bad situation and lose it's job and someone throw a cellphone at it's head
I love Windows 8. And if you have a mainboard with an Eltron USB 3.0 chipset you will know why xD To me Windows 8 feels like a very polished Windows 7. I just hate Metro. But you don't have to use it.
I neither love or hate Metro, I just have had no use of it and have therefore ignored it. There has always been software that Microsoft bundle with Windows that I don't use. Nobody hated Windows 7 because they didn't bundle minesweeper or pinball.
in defence of win8, it does become slightly less terrible when you realize you can just open the start screen and start typing the name of the applicationyou want to start. Bu thats like one less fly on a dog turd. Fuck win8.
Just an exaggeration. It feels like it takes twenty steps when I have to go to the stupid start page, then search through all these bullshit apps that I'm never going to use. Yeah, that's bullshit. It's my computer, I should be able to do what I want with it. If I want it to be filled up with porn and viruses, then that's my problem. By forcing me to restart, it's like forcing a child to take his medicine "for his own good." Screw that, it's my machine, I should be in charge by default. Thanks for the link though, I'm shutting that down asap.
That puts too much of a burden on people who don't want/need to know about how to lock down a computer to protect themselves. It should protect you by default and if you want to remove the brakes/speedometer/side impact bars to suit your requirements, then you take the risk and responsibility. By hiding the option deep they avoid people turning it off without thinking, if you don't have the skill to find the option then you probably don't have the skill to make the decision. The best way of making people do the right thing is to make it inconvenient to do the wrong thing. But go ahead, you'll be happy and because it's impossible to associate any future computer problems you'll have with the action of turning that option off now you'll never regret it (whether you should or not). I know where the option is and while I found it annoying that it made me reboot the other day, I always forget to reboot when it is convenient for me to do so. IMO if you're going to turn off the enforced reboot you might as well turn off the automatic updates.
Good time to learn to use Linux! Lot of graphical environments to choose from, and highly customizable! For the neophyte I'd suggest Mint (based on Ubuntu but using xfce/kde, it's more familiar than unity with menus and stuff). I personally bought a new laptop recently, removed the HDD with win8 and put a ssd with ubuntu. I have not even installed winXP or win7 in dual-boot as I used to do, and I never had any problem or issues because I wasn't able to boot into windows. Wines works like a charm for most of the popular programs/games and more and more steam games are now Linux compatible. Linux had a bad reputation of being for the leet geeks and hard for the mere mortals, but it's becoming more and more a great alternative for Mr/Ms-anybody.
I like windows 8 as is, im very happy to have gotten rid of the start menu (with all the stuff i have to have installed it takes ages to find anything) as i find the tiles much quicker, saying that things like shutting down annoy me but theirs always something in every version of Windows that annoys me
Back in windows 7 you could simply press the windows button, type the name of the program, then enter and it was launching. Kinda like on unity. I used win8 a bit before changing hdd, and it was weird and confusing, a lot of non-understandable design choices IMO. Ok for new design, but add option to fall back or at least customize!
totally agree, i think Microsoft is now realizing that they must offer an Improvement and at the same time allow people who dont want the new fancy stuff to remain with a similar system they are used to
Some things I hate about Windows 8 (off the top of my head): - It takes FOREVER to release file locks, even the locks by long closed programs. Explorer will also lock folders over Thumbs.db which can make file management infuriating. - Too many programs need to run in Administrator mode, which defeats the purpose. - Some obscure installers just can't get permission to install. - Many 32-bit programs have better compatibility than 64-bit "Win 7" builds for some reason... - Still many (recent!) 32-bit programs wonk out from unfixable Windows controls and file path incompatibility. - File searching is such a pain because it doesn't save your last searches. What's worse is that after opening a result or the file's location (which annoyingly you have to right click, move your cursor and click a button for), it resets the search so you have to start all over if you need to look at more than one result >_< - Desktop.ini will not die, and there's absolutely nothing useful in it. - It takes like 3 minutes for my computer to sleep for some reason. - Folders don't show the size of their contents anymore (apparently removed in Win 7) / you have to get properties on folders (something you can't do in the Recycle Bin). - There seems to be some intermittent network stack bug/incompatibility with my HW where after hours of heavy network load activity screeches to a halt and browsers become completely unresponsive, despite there being apparent connectivity via ping. The only solution I've found so far is to restart... Windows itself is absolutely useless at troubleshooting it. Basically it's like Microsoft hates productivity.
