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That's kind of the point though. You can go through a lot of work to undo the changes so that it's just the same as 7. Or you can avoid the upgrade at all. T
by zeidrich 13y ago
That's kind of the point though. You can go through a lot of work to undo the changes so that it's just the same as 7. Or you can avoid the upgrade at all.
There's other things that 8 does that's annoying, there's some changes to it so that some drivers no longer work, so there's devices that are left unsupported. There's stupid decisions like how if you want to shut down you have to hover in the top right corner with your mouse, then slide down the right side of the window to go to settings to shut off.
The problem is that they wanted to make a consistent tablet interface, but it's not easy to use a tablet interface with a mouse. Many many people still use mice, and still have many reasons to still use mice, but they didn't design a system that is comfortable with a mouse. Using windows 8 on a tablet is actually not too bad, but I only use a tablet casually.
- lordCarbonFiber 13y agoIf you're using the mouse and interacting with windows 8 features you probably aren't having a good time. However, you have no reason to. As of 8.1 you can boot straight into the desktop, if you're a power user (or aren't on a touch device) you aren't using metro apps anyway so their interface doesn't mean much to you, and all other functionality (shutdown, search, settings, etc) is accessible with simple keyboard shortcuts (far faster than using the mouse regardless of what OS you use). The only reason a user without a touch interface should see the start menu in Win8 is for brief moments when they are using the search functionality to quickly open programs. The poster you were responding to is completely correct: they hype against win8 is completely overblown. In my opinion, slight visual changes are worth the back-end changes to things like boot time, multi-core performance, and security.