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At 2/16/13 11:33 PM, Jolly wrote: It's just the start menu.. How often do you actually use the start menu? You hit the start menu and you start typing, how often do you do anything else?

it's not so bad.

I don't actually use the start menu anymore. I just use the right side panel if I need to search for a program that isn't already on my taskbar, so i guess that says something about how much I dislike the new start menu.

I've upgraded to Win 8 soon after it came out.

It improved performance for first gen Command & Conquer games (original, Red Alert), yet second gen (Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2) runs like shit.

Also, for some reason I only get 800x600 resolution on Sims 2.

All the games from this decade will work just fine.

At 2/16/13 08:41 PM, mandog wrote: Is it really worth upgrading though?

Not if you're a power-user. I'm waiting for the next release, and hoping it'll get better. If it doesn't... I guess I'll be stuck with Windows 7 for a while. :P It seems every other Windows release is a load of shit though. Windows Millenium was shit, XP was good, Vista was shit, 7 was good, 8 is shit... and so on. ;)

At 2/16/13 11:38 PM, EJR wrote:

At 2/16/13 11:33 PM, Jolly wrote: It's just the start menu.. How often do you actually use the start menu? You hit the start menu and you start typing, how often do you do anything else?

it's not so bad.

I don't actually use the start menu anymore. I just use the right side panel if I need to search for a program that isn't already on my taskbar, so i guess that says something about how much I dislike the new start menu.

I really don't see the problem with it. I honestly think it's a better start menu than the previous ones. It shows more results without you needing to scroll, the start menu serves more of a purpose, etc. I don't have a single problem with it.

Maybe it's because I navigate the start menu entirely with my keyboard.

At 2/17/13 12:05 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:

At 2/16/13 08:41 PM, mandog wrote: Is it really worth upgrading though?

Not if you're a power-user. I'm waiting for the next release, and hoping it'll get better. If it doesn't... I guess I'll be stuck with Windows 7 for a while. :P It seems every other Windows release is a load of shit though. Windows Millenium was shit, XP was good, Vista was shit, 7 was good, 8 is shit... and so on. ;)

Other than the start menu it's pretty much exactly the same as Windows 7, so it's hardly shit, and I think it's especially good for "power-users". The boot time is quicker, everything in the start menu feels much faster to me, and the task manager is so much better.

At 2/17/13 12:14 AM, Jolly wrote: Other than the start menu it's pretty much exactly the same as Windows 7, so it's hardly shit, and I think it's especially good for "power-users". The boot time is quicker, everything in the start menu feels much faster to me, and the task manager is so much better.

Well maybe not shit, but it's not a big enough improvement to merit an upgrade. In fact, they've removed a bunch of useful features that I'd have liked to keep. They could have included options for the users to activate the features at least, instead of removing them for everyone. The start button, the start menu, the classic Windows theme (that's been included in pretty much every release so far since DOS), the ability to change window colors and backgrounds, the status bar, command-bar and the worst part: no more Windows XP mode! That's not an improvement at all...

Glad they removed gadgets though, those were pretty useless.

As for the start menu, the problem is... there is no start menu! :( I gave the new interface a try, but to me it just doesn't seem as flexible as the old one, nor does it have space for the same amount of items, or allow for arranging files the same way as you used to. I save all downloads to my desktop for example, and either sort them or go through them sequentially, and the way the new interface just takes over in Windows 8 makes using the 'old' interface much more difficult. I'm hoping they'll make the next version more flexible. It's good that the new OS is faster, but I'd happily sacrifice that gained speed in favor of the current feature set. :/

At 2/17/13 11:16 AM, dogpup4 wrote: It's not as bad as people who haven't used it say it is, but there's really no reason to upgrade. I got it because it came installed on my laptop. The tablet style thing is crap so I don't use that - I just use the desktop mode which looks just like Windows 7. I miss the old start menu, as now it takes me a bit longer to find things, but I don't really mind W8. It starts up really quickly so that's nice.

It's just that it's such a needless change. They could easily have included an option to turn off the new interface, to boot directly to desktop, even to include the start menu. Why force users to change? It's like they don't give a shit about the customers this time around.

At 2/17/13 11:53 AM, NothingStudios wrote: No, I really don't think it looks that great

I really think so too.

At 2/18/13 04:28 AM, Zanthas wrote: Just when I play games.

What do you use for everything else?

At 2/18/13 04:38 AM, Halberd wrote: Seems to me like the main purpose of Windows 8 is for touchscreen and fuck that. I'm not going to upgrade.

Windows 8 still has desktop mode. So it's like Windows 7 (with a few improvements) with another side to it.

idk im thinking of getting a new desktop and a touchscreen onitor