What I have seen, I would avoid 8. That said, with some tinkering, I made vista livable. I hope that turns out to be the case with 8.
Then again, I don't plan to go computer shopping any time soon. My laptop with 7 should last me till 9 comes out. If I can build my tower, that will get 7, or if I really have the coin, I'm going over to a mac.
I replaced my 3 year old laptop recently and reluctantly ordered one with win8... it does have some nice geek factor things as mentioned but i'm not a fan of metro.
I ended up installing retro UI ($5 program) so I auto boot to my framiliar win7 desktop and have my traditional start button and such. My dad works at the oldest computer shop in columbus GA and they go though a process to hide metro as most of their customers are old school and have been buying from them for decades now.
as for computer sales, I'll go with the fact that with tablets fewer and fewer people need a computer, add the power needed for just basic computing most people won't justify a new computer, my mother-in-law just finally did... her computer was bottom of the line when she got it 5+ years ago (i'd estemate 7+ year old technology at least) and it's just now really struggling with facebook and such...
I'll stick to win8 on my laptop but certainly won't upgrade my desktop from 7
Been using Windows since 3.0. After my wife got a new laptop with Win8 my old computer running XP seemed painfully slow. So I went a got a new desktop with Win8. Only took me a few hours to get it to look very similar to my old XP machine. I don't use the picture viewer and some of the other stuff. I just loaded the old programs I used before. I rarely shut it down but if I do, I just go straight to the desktop when I start it up. It helps that the new computer is a touchscreen so type in the password and a couple tap on the screen and I am back to familiar surroundings.
New computer --- old computer
Sweet so with a FEW HOURS of berkeleying around on my computer I can make it work like my old computer. Sweet I have time and desire for that..
Seriously thouh thanks for the tips when I get a chance I will mess with it and try to un windows 8 it.
Win 8 is a huge pile and a resource hog, made worse by ad ons to make it look like Win 7. I am doing a hard drive wipe and installing a new copy of Win 7 for $79.
When my old 'puter crapped out I bought a desktop Win 7 machine from Newegg, it was a closeout for the right price. I really liked XP on the old machine so Win 7 was a good transition, I like it. Kinda glad I didn't pop for 8.
After dealing with XP woes over the years, Windows 7 knocked my socks off. I love, love, love it.
With Windows 8, looks like Microsoft is going back to being... well... Microsoft.
I have followed windows every other build for years... windows 3.1, 98, XP, and finally windows 7. Never had a problem with any of them.
Something a friend of mine noticed, the people who have the most issues with windows treat them like Macs. Keep no files on the desktop (shortcuts only) and it should keep on churning away without any issues. Load up the desktop with folders and files, and watch it crash all the time
nocones wrote: Sweet so with a FEW HOURS of berkeleying around on my computer I can make it work like my old computer. Sweet I have time and desire for that..
retro UI took all of 5 min to install and give me that old win7 look and feel... free to try for a week http://retroui.com/ and $5 if you like it...
that being said I've never had serious problems with any windows OS and I've had them all seince win 3.0 or 3.1 (can't recall which it was... on our old 386sx)... heck I never even had issues with ME and EVERYONE had issues with that lol
can WIN 8 be made to look like WIN98- because that's how i've got Vista set up right now...
I run stock Win8 as my second OS on my MacBook Pro and after getting used to it it's OK. Mouse gestures are a little fiddly.
I bought my mom a new laptop with touch and all that to replace her virus-riddled 10 year old XP laptop, and with touch 8 is actually pretty cool. I think MS made the right decision in making it more relevant to the computers of a couple years from now instead of computers from a couple years ago.
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