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PCGamesN: "Why I'm uninstalling Windows 8"

PCGamesN's Tim Edwards has written a piece on why he's decided to uninstall Windows 8 after a month of use. A couple of choice quotes:

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Windows 8 is the worst computing experience I’ve ever had. As a desktop operating system, it’s annoying, frustrating, irritating, and baffling to use.

To be fair to Microsoft, Metro is a decent way of poking at your computer with a finger. But when you have the flexibility and precision of a mouse, it makes no sense.

There are certain things that you do with your PC every day that should form the basis of the operating system. Email. Instant Message. Calendars. Media Playing. All of these functions in Windows 8 are carried out through Metro apps, and they are universally awful.

For more on Mr Edwards' rant, follow the link below.

http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/why-i-m-uninstalling-windows-8
 
Is the ideal alternative to boot to Windows 8, switch to desktop mode, and then run the legacy applications? (assuming that's possible, I haven't used Windows 8 yet)
 
That's pretty much my experience with running the Preview Release in a VM in a nutshull. Metro is not meant for desktops. It removes functionality my computer running Windows 7 has. When will Microsoft wake up to this?
 
I personally will not be buying this.. but I am lobbying for my next work issued PC to be a Win8 laptop (or a Macbook Air)
 
Not a good sign for future pc gaming. Another pre-release complain.

I hope rumour of big work on improvement Linux gaming will come reality. Need to have more alternatives on option to choose which OS for gaming.
 
It still baffles me that you can't use the 360 controller to navigate the Modern Style interface. If it had this function Win8 + Steam big picture would be an awesome combo.
 
I pretty much expect Windows 8 to become the next Windows Vista. Many people will probably cling to Windows 7 until the eventual "Windows-8-done-right" Windows 9 releases.
 
So basically, wait for Windows 9?
I pretty much expect Windows 8 to become the next Windows Vista. Many people will probably cling to Windows 7 until the eventual "Windows-8-done-right" Windows 9 releases.
Yeah that.
 
The interface is very pleasing, but not functional at all from my experience in a work setting

It's just dumb. There's no way to get a calendar/clock to be persistant on the screen from what I can tell, and mixing Metro and original Desktop apps doesn't work with a shit, because you have to switch to the Desktop when you're in a Metro app, then switch to the Desktop app itself.

It is a neat toy, I use it on my home laptop, but I really don't see a benefit to putting it on my work computer. Microsoft went after the home user/Apple with this release, and didn't even stop to consider their bread and butter enterprise user.
 
You can easily uninstall all metro apps with a few clicks and put shortcuts to your normal programs on your start screen. Problem solved.

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Microsoft isn't totally retarded, they'll stop pushing metro on us in the near future due to all this backlash.

Vista all over again almost, maybe worse this time.
 
From what I've used Win8 is functionally useless in a work setting or with any non-touch interface, really. Also, my time in IT has taught me that the billions of people who struggled to learn basic PC functionality are not going to bother relearning 8.

No Start Menu is a disaster, it's literally the only way most of my family know how to navigate a computer.
 
same thing happen with new Ubuntu :( why that fak the developers are pushing tablet like features which are great for phones and tablet on a desktop is mindbulogoginaging maybe cuz they think they can charge for apps and make$$$?
 
Terrible article indeed.
Like their first one saying W8 is bad for gaming, and then they do not list any argument about it, but complain about the Media Player in a huge paragraph. That site is garbage.
 
I pretty much expect Windows 8 to become the next Windows Vista. Many people will probably cling to Windows 7 until the eventual "Windows-8-done-right" Windows 9 releases.

I'm very afraid though that Microsoft will keep pushing the Metro layout, and I don't think it is fixed without a really massive overhaul or removal.
 
Also I know of at least one company switching over to mandatory Windows 7 (having skipped Vista) within the next 8 months or so. I wonder if the timeframe will be similar for Windows 9 many years from now with corporate changeovers, skipping Windows 8.

I like Windows 7, but one of the things that boggled my mind the most coming from XP is how they got rid of the old explorer search dialog box. The old box worked great -- you could tell it whether you were searching for (part of) a filename, (part of) contents in the file, when it was modified, what size it was, and where you wanted to look.

With Windows 7, I don't think I EVER found a way to make it work that well. Not only are you restricted to only searching the current folder (right?), but there is no option that I recall to explicitly say you're searching only contents, or only titles, and the thing that annoyed me the MOST was that I am practically convinced there were times when I even set up a directory as indexed and yet certain files (text files or whatever) with strings in them would not be found. Meanwhile, I could just open a command prompt and do "findstr /S /I "whatever" *" and get the exact, correct results. Why they chose to make that more complicated and apparently not work in some cases, I do not know. :/
 
The main thing is the business consumer. I've played around a bit with the consumer preview on a friend's computer and it's certainly entirely functional but it seems like a bit of a hassle having to go to metro when the start configuration seems to be much faster.
 
some of that sounds like a gross exaggeration like the part saying IM and email are only through Metro apps? I call BS

It's not. If you have an IM app open on the desktop and are in a Metro app, you will never know that you have an IM unless you go back to the desktop at some point. The desktop literally is sandboxed away from the Metro apps.
 
Gemüsepizza;41504879 said:
You can easily uninstall all metro apps with a few clicks and put shortcuts to your normal programs on your start screen. Problem solved.

How do you go back to desktop? And is there a way to have it set to desktop on startup?
 
Forcing yourself to use metro apps on a desktop probably would be a terrible computing experience. I'm not sure why he didn't just do what seemingly every other desktop Windows 8 user does -- ignores Metro for the most part, continue using the desktop and the same apps they always used in Windows 7 for email, media, gaming, instant messaging etc. Metro apps aren't forced on you.
 
I've not used Windows 8, and I shall not use it unless it's on a Tablet or phone. I hope to god this doesn't come to the 360. I will NEVER update mine.
 
I think it's fine.

People just don't like change.

If you started on this... Or you were more open-minded to change, it would be seen as a fine OS.
 
Gemüsepizza;41504879 said:
You can easily uninstall all metro apps with a few clicks and put shortcuts to your normal programs on your start screen. Problem solved.

Wait wait wiat...

If the shortcuts on the desktop aren't the ones you like, you can change them?
Sounds too hard. Don't wanna relearn this new crazy stuff.
 
How do you go back to desktop? And is there a way to have it set to desktop on startup?

You can either leave the Desktop tile on the start screen (like on the screenshot) or press the Windows key. As far as I know you can only boot to the start screen, but I did get used to it quite fast, the start screen is my start menu now. I don't really miss the old menu.
 
tried it for a few hours, the small improvements to the classic OS are nice but the start menu shenanigans were too much to handle. will be passing on 8.

also lol

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To me Windows 8 is a faster Windows 7 with a metro home screen, after a while I got used to it and I don't really have a problem with it. I don't actually see what all the fuss is about, if you hate it that much just press the windows button and it goes away.
 
What do you mean? They are asking how to switch from Metro to desktop mode, correct?

And in addition to that, is there any way to set desktop mode as the default on startup?

Press the Windows Key, or make yourself a shortcut. It's not like those two modes are hard switches, it's pretty fluent.
 
Gemüsepizza;41504879 said:
You can easily uninstall all metro apps with a few clicks and put shortcuts to your normal programs on your start screen. Problem solved.

startmenuyxkng.png

Those buttons look sort of awful, though.
 
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