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I've been using Windows 8 for months, and while I've initially had the same reaction about that bloody schizophrenic UI, it's not hard to configure everything t
by hdivider 14y ago
I've been using Windows 8 for months, and while I've initially had the same reaction about that bloody schizophrenic UI, it's not hard to configure everything to look and feel almost exactly like Windows 7.
What actual users will say about the new WinRT/WinDesktop model is beyond me. I imagine that the Windows Store will quickly fill with plenty of useful apps, so that the pain of living exclusively in WinRT will lessen somewhat.
- ktizo 14y agoI've been using Windows 8 for months, and while I've initially had the same reaction about that bloody schizophrenic UI, it's not hard to configure everything to look and feel almost exactly like Windows 7. So are you saying there are two horrible things, and only one is even usable?
- hdivider 14y agoMaybe I should have expanded a little. What I meant was that while the WinRT environment is horrible to use on a touchless desktop environment (for me, at least), Windows 8 can easily be changed to feel almost exactly like Windows 7 (which I can use very efficiently). At the same time, whenever I have a touch-based device I can still make use of all the WinRT features. Long story short, Windows 8 may look like a UI disaster at first, but for devs at least it's almost irrelevant because you can change pretty much everything, and get used to or ignore the rest. Like I said earlier though, I'm not sure how much reconfiguration the mainstream user wants to do, or how easily they'll get used to WinRT.