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Care to tell me what your issue is with Windows 8.1? I've been using 8/8.1 for well over a year now, and it has been, perhaps, one of the best installments of t

Care to tell me what your issue is with Windows 8.1? I've been using 8/8.1 for well over a year now, and it has been, perhaps, one of the best installments of the Windows line of operating systems I have ever used. There are a variety of third party applications and workarounds that can effectively re-patch explorer.exe to completely disable Modern UI and bring back the old start menu (think Start Is Back).

protomyth 11y ago
"Care to tell me what your issue is with Windows 8.1?" You answered your own question with this line: "There are a variety of third party applications and workarounds that can effectively re-patch explorer.exe to completely disable Modern UI and bring back the old start menu (think Start Is Back)." Making a deploy image that doesn't try to get computers to sign in to Microsoft's cloud services and doesn't require patching or extensive training is very much a problem. We skipped 8 like we skipped Vista.
- everyone 11y ago
  Its quite buggy and unstable too
mark_l_watson 11y ago
I switch back and forth between my minimal modern desktop and the old version with a single key press. That said, I modified the modern screen to just have a terminal, IntelliJ, Github bash terminal, and a few other things and it is handy enough for quick launches of whatever I need. I don't really think much about the windows interface, just the few apps I use. Same as with OSX and Ubuntu: a moments thought to switch between a bash shell, IntelliJ, a web browser, but 99% of of what I am thinking about is what I do in individual apps. The operating system is getting to be irrelevant in my world as an author and programmer.
wongarsu 11y ago
>to completely disable Modern UI Except for random settings that are kick you into a Metro settings app for no apparent reason. It feels a bit like they randomly put some settings into the Metro interface and left some settings in the Desktop interface. Before as well as after patching away the annoying parts of the "modern" UI, Windows 8.1 just feels like Windows 7 with less consistent UI and more asking for that Microsoft account I don't want to have.
Sir_Substance 11y ago
>There are a variety of third party applications and workarounds that can effectively re-patch explorer.exe to completely disable Modern UI and bring back the old start menu (think Start Is Back). I'll stop you here: Why would I use an operating system so user-hostile that it's own advocates are saying "it's ok, lots of programs are available to unfuck it!", when the previous installment is on every level technically sound and doesn't require the unfucking?
godzilla82 11y ago
You use third party applications to re-patch the operating system shell (explorer.exe) ? Are you serious ?

protomyth 11y ago

"Care to tell me what your issue is with Windows 8.1?" You answered your own question with this line: "There are a variety of third party applications and workarounds that can effectively re-patch explorer.exe to completely disable Modern UI and bring back the old start menu (think Start Is Back)." Making a deploy image that doesn't try to get computers to sign in to Microsoft's cloud services and doesn't require patching or extensive training is very much a problem. We skipped 8 like we skipped Vista.

everyone 11y ago
Its quite buggy and unstable too

mark_l_watson 11y ago

I switch back and forth between my minimal modern desktop and the old version with a single key press. That said, I modified the modern screen to just have a terminal, IntelliJ, Github bash terminal, and a few other things and it is handy enough for quick launches of whatever I need. I don't really think much about the windows interface, just the few apps I use. Same as with OSX and Ubuntu: a moments thought to switch between a bash shell, IntelliJ, a web browser, but 99% of of what I am thinking about is what I do in individual apps. The operating system is getting to be irrelevant in my world as an author and programmer.

wongarsu 11y ago

>to completely disable Modern UI Except for random settings that are kick you into a Metro settings app for no apparent reason. It feels a bit like they randomly put some settings into the Metro interface and left some settings in the Desktop interface. Before as well as after patching away the annoying parts of the "modern" UI, Windows 8.1 just feels like Windows 7 with less consistent UI and more asking for that Microsoft account I don't want to have.

Sir_Substance 11y ago

>There are a variety of third party applications and workarounds that can effectively re-patch explorer.exe to completely disable Modern UI and bring back the old start menu (think Start Is Back). I'll stop you here: Why would I use an operating system so user-hostile that it's own advocates are saying "it's ok, lots of programs are available to unfuck it!", when the previous installment is on every level technically sound and doesn't require the unfucking?

godzilla82 11y ago

You use third party applications to re-patch the operating system shell (explorer.exe) ? Are you serious ?