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> Been using 8 for about a year and have no problem with the start screen without a touch interface - the workflow is pretty much identical to 7: Press the Wind
by gabemart 13y ago
> Been using 8 for about a year and have no problem with the start screen without a touch interface - the workflow is pretty much identical to 7: Press the Windows key and type part of the name of what you want, with the bonus that it's significantly faster at giving results.
A full-screen menu appearing on top of whatever I am working on completely breaks my flow. It's immensely distracting to me. As a result, I literally never use it. Instead I use Launchy [1] which is well behaved and keeps within the confines of a very small dialogue box.
That doesn't completely fix Windows 8, though - there's still a bunch of touch-orientated stuff that there's no native way to deactivate.
[1] http://www.launchy.net/ http://www.launchy.net/
- lttlrck 13y agoI find Gnome 3 suffers the same issue. When I'm searching I know what I'm looking for 99% of the time, it's just a glorified accelerator combo, I don't need a full screen full of distractions.
- Freaky 13y agoI tend not to be launching much stuff when I'm working - editors, browsers, VMs etc are already open. Plus I have three monitors, and tend to have it opening on the smallest so it doesn't get in the way. I do think Microsoft should have made it optional - it's obvious this is what people wanted, and it's not like it would have cost them much in development/support. Still, at least there's now a huge bunch of third party software to replace/augment it, most with far greater configurability than the original Start menu.
- philliphaydon 13y agoI thought, wow, awesome, an Alfred alternative to windows. - Install - Type in visualstud... I get CALCULATOR... - Uninstall... Launchy has absolutely NOTHING on Windows 8 Key + typing.