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It took some getting used to, but I now much prefer Windows 8 to Windows 7 on my laptop (that said, I still use W7 on my desktop PC). Why? It simply allows me
by Aqwis 13y ago
It took some getting used to, but I now much prefer Windows 8 to Windows 7 on my laptop (that said, I still use W7 on my desktop PC).
Why? It simply allows me to do much more without touching the touchpad. I power on the laptop, press Ctrl+Alt+Del, start typing my password without having to awkwardly alt+tab around as I would in W7. I log in to the desktop, press Win and start typing c,h,r...enter, Chrome starts. I press Ctrl+L, type a URL or a search, scroll on the page using pgdown or pgup... only having to use the touchpad if I want to click on a link or select some text.
Sure, I could do much of this in W7 if I wanted to, but W7's start menu search is far inferior to W8's Metro search, and I would have to ALT+TAB a lot more around if I wanted to avoid using the touchpad.
- agersant 13y agoIn W7, you can use Win+Number to focus a window. This is much more convenient than Alt+Tab (but doesn't scale beyond ten windows).
- bentcorner 13y agoI'm not a big fan of this feature. Unless you pin several icons and have really good muscle memory knowing what is past three or four icons is too difficult.
- pjmlp 13y agoHaving used at my parent's place I find it also quite ok.
- daigoba66 13y ago> but W7's start menu search is far inferior to W8's Metro search That's interesting because I personally consider Win8's start screen search far inferior to Win7's start menu. Neither come close to being as powerful and as useful as OSX's spotlight, but I honestly felt Win7 did a finer job.
- pmelendez 13y agoThat's arguably but the thing most people don't realize is that Win 8 is the more keyboard centric version of Windows and that in a laptop is priceless :)
- higherpurpose 13y agoOnly because they force you to use the keyboard more for shortcuts, because they've hidden so much from the screen for the sake of "simplicity", which ironically makes the UI harder to use. It's also the exact opposite of what the author is saying, because it's the power users that would (probably) use keyboard shortcuts, not normal users.