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still leaps better than windows 8
by Levitating 5mo ago
still leaps better than windows 8
- sunaookami 5mo agoAside from the start menu no, not really. Windows 8 is the most performant operating system. No laggy animations (thanks to DirectUI), fast boot time, especially fast on older systems. Windows 10 started the whole lagfest.
- bigstrat2003 5mo ago"aside from the start menu" is one hell of a caveat. When you screw up one of the main UI elements as badly as they did, it really drags the whole experience down.
- sunaookami 5mo agoWell most people just press the Windows key and type to open a program which works exactly the same on Win8. And personally I loved the start screen. And how often do you really need the start menu?
- Citizen_Lame 5mo agoThat's the most brain dead take I've seen in a while. Yes, forget about start menu and lets just search everything or use giant pictorials designed for 'blind' people.
- sunaookami 5mo agoNot what I said.
- donkeylazy456 5mo agoexactly! I don't understand why people hated it so much. It was snappy, clean OS. I've always thought it was better than Win7. Of course, absent of start menu was terrible choice. And I meant 8.1, not 8.
- thewebguyd 5mo agoIt was, eventually. In the beginning 10 was literally just Windows 8.1 (it even ran the same NT6 kernel) but with the classic UI slapped back on. They called it 10 to get away from the Windows 8 branding that everyone hated. I recall it being pretty mediocre at release, just a reskinned 8.1. 10 started to come into its own much later after NT10
- hypercube33 5mo agoWindows 8 was ultra stable. I've seen uptime well over multiple years on it. The original UX was beyond awful and 8.1 made it ok but the core of the OS was solid.
- kelvinjps10 5mo agoIdk, I literally skipped Windows 8.