Windows 8

Tommy Vercetti said:
The interface for Windows 8 is terrible. It is clunky and unwieldy. Metro is a pain to use and start screen is a stupid idea. The start menu was more effective. It does NOT need to take up the whole screen. It should have been made an option to keep the start menu in Windows 8 by default. There is still a chance they might fix this crap with a service pack. Hopefully if usage rates stay low and people keep complaining they will. One rule of running a good business, the customer is always right.
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The start menu works exactly the same way as the start screen if you have a keyboard - you type the first few letters of the program you want to open.

You've still failed to show anything you're able to do more effectively in Windows 7 than in Windows 8.
 
Owen Glyndwr said:
You have in no way explained what Windows 8 does worse than Windows 7. Saying "the interface is terrible" does not count. You said the start screen is stupid and the menu is effective, but you haven't explained why. How was the menu more effective when they are functionally the exact same thing?
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It is pointless for the start screen to take up the whole damn screen. Metro UI is utter garbage. The UI being terrible is a completely valid reason to hate Windows 8. That is one of the most important parts of an OS is a good UI. My computer is NOT a phone or a tablet and should not function like one. I have no plans on using a touchscreen on my computer. Touchscreens on desktops and laptops have never caught on and never will. Not to mention I personally am not a fan of touchscreen devices. Give me a keyboard and a mouse over that crap any day. Hell on my laptop I always use a mouse and never use the touchpad. I HATE using those things.
 
Tommy Vercetti said:
It is pointless for the start screen to take up the whole damn screen. Metro UI is utter garbage. The UI being terrible is a completely valid reason to hate Windows 8. That is one of the most important parts of an OS is a good UI. My computer is NOT a phone or a tablet and should not function like one. I have no plans on using a touchscreen on my computer. Touchscreens on desktops and laptops have never caught on and never will. Not to mention I personally am not a fan of touchscreen devices. Give me a keyboard and a mouse over that crap any day. Hell on my laptop I always use a mouse and never use the touchpad. I HATE using those things.
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I see you're repeating yourself without being able to name anything that Windows 8 actually does worse than Windows 7.
 
Zelig said:
I see you're repeating yourself without being able to name anything that Windows 8 actually does worse than Windows 7.
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You are dismissing my reasons. The interface SUCKS and the start screen SUCKS. That is what ruins Windows 8.

Moderator Action: Either be more descriptive with reasons why you do not like it or don't say anything. This is a discussion thread and this does not add to the discussion. It is a rant.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889
 
Could you say exactly how it sucks?
 
Tommy Vercetti said:
Windows 8 is an abomination to computing. Metro SUCKS and so does the start screen. Tablets are a fad. Hopefully this crap all dies out so we can keep our traditional desktops and start menus.
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Shut the hell up and stop bringing the same stupid crap over and over again. You're just trying to spark a flame war, coming in here to bump the thread and say "Windows 8 is an abomination please give me attention OH GOD I NEED ATTENTION" once a week.
 
Windows 3.1 is truly the best, though.
 
This thread is hilarious.
 
Tommy Vercetti said:
It is pointless for the start screen to take up the whole damn screen.
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Why doesn't it? Have you somehow managed to find a way to operate two mouse cursors on-screen simultaneously and need a start menu so you can multitask opening programs from the start menu and opening programs from your desktop? Or do you just really like looking at 2/3 of your desktop background? I don't really see why it matters so much to you that it takes up the whole screen now rather than just 1/3 of the screen, especially when functionally they are the exact same thing.
 
A start menu that takes up 1/3 of the screen is 1/3 as useful as a start menu that takes up the whole of the screen.
 
We got my wife's new Window's 8 laptop and it's proving incredibly difficult to adjust too. The main issue is that I didn't get a touchscreen with it, it just has a trackpad. Doing the guestures (swipe right, then left, etc) is proving extremely difficult on the trackpad and has so far been a bit of a nightmare. Further, we keep accidentally switching between the metro area and the desktop. We'll be in the desktop doing something and then switch into metro. And of course, the IE in metro isn't the IE in the desktop so you have to switch back to the desktop to do what you were doing.

I can't even find the settings so I can turn off the 'enter password to logon' thing when I boot up.

It's been a trying experience so far. :(
 
hobbsyoyo said:
We got my wife's new Window's 8 laptop and it's proving incredibly difficult to adjust too. The main issue is that I didn't get a touchscreen with it, it just has a trackpad. Doing the guestures (swipe right, then left, etc) is proving extremely difficult on the trackpad and has so far been a bit of a nightmare. Further, we keep accidentally switching between the metro area and the desktop. We'll be in the desktop doing something and then switch into metro. And of course, the IE in metro isn't the IE in the desktop so you have to switch back to the desktop to do what you were doing.

I can't even find the settings so I can turn off the 'enter password to logon' thing when I boot up.

It's been a trying experience so far. :(
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Just downgrade and get Windows 7. Windows 8 is just terrible.
 
hobbsyoyo said:
We got my wife's new Window's 8 laptop and it's proving incredibly difficult to adjust too. The main issue is that I didn't get a touchscreen with it, it just has a trackpad. Doing the guestures (swipe right, then left, etc) is proving extremely difficult on the trackpad and has so far been a bit of a nightmare. Further, we keep accidentally switching between the metro area and the desktop. We'll be in the desktop doing something and then switch into metro. And of course, the IE in metro isn't the IE in the desktop so you have to switch back to the desktop to do what you were doing.

I can't even find the settings so I can turn off the 'enter password to logon' thing when I boot up.

It's been a trying experience so far. :(
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That mostly sounds like a trackpad problem. If you're trying to only work on the desktop, just go to the settings for the trackpad and disable edge gestures.

I would very, very strongly recommend not leaving any computer without password protection.
 
hobbsyoyo said:
We got my wife's new Window's 8 laptop and it's proving incredibly difficult to adjust too. The main issue is that I didn't get a touchscreen with it, it just has a trackpad. Doing the guestures (swipe right, then left, etc) is proving extremely difficult on the trackpad and has so far been a bit of a nightmare. Further, we keep accidentally switching between the metro area and the desktop. We'll be in the desktop doing something and then switch into metro. And of course, the IE in metro isn't the IE in the desktop so you have to switch back to the desktop to do what you were doing.

I can't even find the settings so I can turn off the 'enter password to logon' thing when I boot up.

It's been a trying experience so far. :(
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How the hell do you accidentally switch between Metro and Desktop?

Also, do you not have a mouse or something? Trackpads should be a last resort, on any computer.
 
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