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Does anyone else hate Windows 8 as much as I do?

smigon

smigon

Old enough to know better
Anytime your pointer touches an edge it opens a new option, closes the window you were on, or does something else to peeve me. I want to have full control of ALL my screen, and not be scared of the walls as if they were electric fences. Oh, and if I go to capitalize "T" but am no exactly on the mark, it throws me back to the original menu choices to find my way back to my page.

Thanks for listening to my rant! :twoguns:

You may go about your day now.
 
I've been using Windows 8 for about 4 months now. At first I hated it with a passion but it has really grown on me once I figured out how to get around and what settings I needed to tweak to suit my needs.
 
I've had it since September and have gotten used to it. My husband and daughter both grumble when they have to use my computer, though.
 
The new laptop at work has it. I hate it with a passion, but have to admit I never wanted to leave '98. I won't buy anything with 8 on it, though. As soon as I get used to it, there will be a new OS anyway.
 
Hate it! My Grandma's newer laptop has it and I've only messed with it a few times.
 
I'm still using XP - at least, until April 8 when they stop support for it. I heard so many bad things about Win 8 that I just bought a little 11" Mac that I am still getting used to. I figured if I had to learn a new system anyway, why make it one that everyone seems to hate (Win 8)? So the old desktop will get the heave - ho and I will try to substitute the new Mac. But I also have a bigger laptop that runs Win 7 if the Mac doesn't prove to be what I want. Either way, it WON'T be Win 8!

I heard that Win 9 will be coming out within a year. They will probably fix whatever everyone hates by then. But it might be too late for me. I may be a confirmed Apple lover by then - who knows? Not a good move by Microsoft, as I am sure I am not the only one who decided to switch sides because of the poor Win 8 reviews. And dumping support for XP is what has forced my hand, instead of waiting for Win 9 to come out.
 
That does seem to be a pattern with Microsoft though, to put out one good operating system and then a crummy one followed by another decent one, etc.
I really loved XP and don't like Windows 7 nearly as well but 7 is what's on my laptop and my husband assures me that it is actually a better system than XP. But then he is a computer guy, used to repair computers with a friend to pay their way through high school. Still, XP was easier for computer dummies like me to use, whether it was actually a better system!
 
kathylove said:
I'm still using XP - at least, until April 8 when they stop support for it. I heard so many bad things about Win 8 that I just bought a little 11" Mac that I am still getting used to. I figured if I had to learn a new system anyway, why make it one that everyone seems to hate (Win 8)? So the old desktop will get the heave - ho and I will try to substitute the new Mac. But I also have a bigger laptop that runs Win 7 if the Mac doesn't prove to be what I want. Either way, it WON'T be Win 8!
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Both Vista and XP were SO easy to use, it figures this one got the wrong end of the stick!
 
I made the switch to Mac a few years ago. I'd used a Mac for editing, but not as a personal computer. I was scared that all my programs I loved wouldn't work. Really, I barely notice the difference. My favorite reptile database is PC only (Degei) so I switched to Reptile Scan, and I LOVE that program. E-mail- no big deal. Word- compatible. Safari- love it.

I was also SUPER concerned about losing my photo editing program that I loved so much, Thumbs Plus. I asked around, switched to Lightroom, and man, it is so much better!!

The COOLEST thing is that when Mac comes out with a new OS, you DL it by wifi, and it costs less than $20.

It's amazing. There are no pop-ups. No blue screen of death. I think I've rebooted less than ten times in three years. I never shut my Macbook down- it doesn't need to be. It goes to sleep and wakes up by itself. On the few odd times I've shut it down, it's back up, ready to go, in about one minute. A reboot takes even less time.

If you can do it- take the plunge. You'll have a computer that will last YEARS.

And my craptop is up at Rich's, running XP. I refuse to upgrade- I like XP, if I'm forced to use a PC. (Poor little Macbook Air can't travel, since I broke the screen...*cries*)

I think my PC at work is XP. Total bogged-down PITA. Hate it.
 
Did you get the small, 13 or 11" Mac, Nanci? I got the cheapest 11" one, since I don't do any heavy duty gaming or photo processing, etc - and I wanted it to be VERY portable. I just text based programs, and saving some photos. I do have an external hard drive for saving photos. I need to figure out how to use my adapter to make the laptop image appear on the big monitor, if I am to use it for EVERYTHING. But I did buy the year's worth of one to one classes - only went to 2 so far. I am hoping that the new Mac might be equal to all of the everyday tasks I do, and can replace my old, 2006 XP desktop. I haven't actually checked the specs of the desktop to compare to the little Mac, except that I know the Mac doesn't have a big hard drive. Guess I will have to take a few more classes.

If you have any particular tips for a new Mac user, I am all ears!
 
kathylove said:
I'm still using XP - at least, until April 8 when they stop support for it. I heard so many bad things about Win 8 that I just bought a little 11" Mac that I am still getting used to. I figured if I had to learn a new system anyway, why make it one that everyone seems to hate (Win 8)?
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Kathy, switched to Mac six years ago and never looked back. Absolutely love it. Having to use Windows 8 at work last year only reinforced my hatred for using Windows. Hope it works out for you.
 
I have the 13", which I didn't, at first, think I would like for photo editing, coming from a 17". I am very happy with it, though. Extremely. Best computer I ever had. I _just_ missed out on the lightning connection, for the new 27" monitor. That monitor is amazing! But, I don't have room for it.

One thing I have found works well for any computer question, be it Mac, PC, or iPhone/iPad, is if you have a question, just Google it. The answer is always there.
 
Windows 8 was developed for the touchscreen monitor. Windows 7 is for non-touch screen. The Pro version of either is better then the standard home versions.
 

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dave partington said:
Windows 8 was developed for the touchscreen monitor. Windows 7 is for non-touch screen. The Pro version of either is better then the standard home versions.
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Oh, I've TOUCHED the screen all right, stopping myself from putting a fist through it!
 
We just got a new computer and it has windows 8. I really like it. It's easy to navigate, well I guess at first it wasn't. The search option in the app area is proving itself very handy and makes it so easy to find whatever can't be found. The start screen is completely customizable, which is great. The touch screen can be locked so the toddler can't send emails or buy stuff through the Amazon acct. If it matters we bought a touch screen desktop.
 
A friend asked me to help her with her laptop because she was having problems. First time I've ever laid hands on a keyboard on a PC running Windows 8. Well, her problem turned out to be that the default printer designation was screwed up, but darn if I could find the hidden option to change the default permanently. So I showed her what she needed to do to change that option whenever she needed to print.

I'm sure it's just a learning curve thing, but darn, hasn't Microsoft figured out yet that people just aren't interested in becoming technical gurus just to USE their PC? Customers really shouldn't have to use a manual to do 90 percent of what they need to do with the merchandise you sold them.

My mom got a new laptop and she HATED Windows 8. She felt like it was fighting her with everything she wanted her computer to do for her. Finally, she got the store where she bought it from to wipe out 8 and put Win7 on it.

I guess trying to make PCs work like mobile devices seems like a good idea as a marketing strategy, and maybe it works well for those people who are very fluent with the handheld devices and perhaps satisfied with the services offered via such devices. But I want my computers to BE computers. And quite frankly, I just do not want to have to be cleaning off the screen of my PC every 10 minutes because of finger prints on my screen. Plus holding my arm up all day long to activate a touch screen would get real old in a real hurry.

But heck, the older I get the more old fashioned my opinions seem, I suppose.
 
I do think Win8 would be a lot more intuitive if you had a touch screen. I don't, so I had to figure out how to navigate it with a mouse. I also suspect that one reason I adjusted fairly quickly is that the main screen is a lot like the iPad, and I love my iPad.

If you go into the desktop view, there really isn't much difference between Win8 and Win7, so unless you reboot frequently you won't have to deal with it.

I will also say, the "always on" function on most newer programs in Win8, similar to on the iPad or mac came in handy. Apparently Asus shipped a bunch of computers with video cards that, after about 6 months, would start spontaneously overheating, which then led to the computer rebooting. With the Win8 and newer versions of software, inside those programs I usually didn't lose anything when it happened. That would NOT have been the case on XP. By the way, I don't suggest Asus for hardware-their tech support is less than helpful. We ended up buying a video card and replacing it ourselves, because their only suggestion was to ship the entire computer back, which would have cost more than a new video card, and would have left me without a computer for about a month. Not acceptable.
 
Actually, I agree with you Rich. That is my complaint with Windows 8, which might not bother me if I had used it on a touch screen device but my interactions with it were on a laptop. If I wanted to have the operating system of a tablet, I would buy a tablet but a laptop/desktop PC should darned well look like a laptop/desktop PC! And I do use a tablet a lot of the time, so I don't think I'm completely old fashioned.

I've heard that Windows 8.1 is much more to my taste and is supposed to be an easy upgrade but my husband, the computer guy, mucked around with my Grandma's laptop for about 4 hours trying to do the update but the computer was doing something he had never seen before and was refusing to accept any updates, he eventually got tired of messing with it and set it aside. Still hasn't gotten back to it, so I've still never seen Windows 8.1 and don't know if it really is better.
 
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