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firepages · 07-05-2012, 02:15 AM

hmmmm put Windows 8 on a VM last night, what a (broken) crock of !@##

OK, up front, I admit it , I hate change , I am still getting over unity/gnome-shell in linux (now on xfce) BUT at least they are consistent with that monstrosity.

Windows 8 is like 2 OS's living in the same hut & neither much like the other one much but play together cos daddy makes them.

Metro is interesting and cool for a phone or a tablet for personal/social stuff but a productivity platform it ain't.

So to do anything else you have to switch to Desktop mode where as per usual they removed or moved the things you used most , so its windows 7 , only broken.
.... why no start button ? what muppet thought that one up? seriously ? whats the gain ? ... nothing, whats the pain .. squillions of confused users.
I have not tried dual screen yet since only in my VM but I can imagine the hot-corners are going to be a PITA on dual 27's ...

In Advance YES I know this is not final release but its more like an unfinished side-project than a final release.
No I wont be using it anyway but my clients will, and sooner or later I am gonna have to come up with something nice to say about it because I sell computers, and when they pull the plug on 7 I have to start making things up .. lest they go buy a mac

funniest thing is that (as a linux advocate) this would have been the perfect launchpad for ubuntu/mint/$flavour if of course it were not for gnome-shell/unity, Ubuntu 10.10 vs Windows 8 ? I could have sold that

07-05-2012, 02:15 AM	PM User \| #1
firepages Super Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Perth Australia Posts: 3,896 Thanks: 5 Thanked 79 Times in 78 Posts	Windows 8, they joking right ? hmmmm put Windows 8 on a VM last night, what a (broken) crock of !@## OK, up front, I admit it , I hate change , I am still getting over unity/gnome-shell in linux (now on xfce) BUT at least they are consistent with that monstrosity. Windows 8 is like 2 OS's living in the same hut & neither much like the other one much but play together cos daddy makes them. Metro is interesting and cool for a phone or a tablet for personal/social stuff but a productivity platform it ain't. So to do anything else you have to switch to Desktop mode where as per usual they removed or moved the things you used most , so its windows 7 , only broken. .... why no start button ? what muppet thought that one up? seriously ? whats the gain ? ... nothing, whats the pain .. squillions of confused users. I have not tried dual screen yet since only in my VM but I can imagine the hot-corners are going to be a PITA on dual 27's ... In Advance YES I know this is not final release but its more like an unfinished side-project than a final release. No I wont be using it anyway but my clients will, and sooner or later I am gonna have to come up with something nice to say about it because I sell computers, and when they pull the plug on 7 I have to start making things up .. lest they go buy a mac funniest thing is that (as a linux advocate) this would have been the perfect launchpad for ubuntu/mint/$flavour if of course it were not for gnome-shell/unity, Ubuntu 10.10 vs Windows 8 ? I could have sold that __________________ resistance is... MVC is the current buzz in web application architectures. It comes from event-driven desktop application design and doesn't fit into web application design very well. But luckily nobody really knows what MVC means, so we can call our presentation layer separation mechanism MVC and move on. (Rasmus Lerdorf)