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Help with Win 8 feedback buy or not to buy?
kitamesume:
windows7 itself, upon release was so bug-ridden that majority of the apps simply doesn't run, hence the haste of SP1.
the only way to run much of the apps were running them in XP compatibility mode but still wasn't stable to warrant a good experience.
Saras:
I've been using win 8 as either my primary or my secondary os since may. And to be honest, while I hated it for the first month or so, I'm beyond the point where I can go back to win 7 without bitching about it either. To be honest, win7 just looks and feels plain old.
There are also some kernel optimizations to take into account. It's a matter of fact that the boot up time for win 8 is quite a bit shorter. The system itself also "feels" a bit smoother and faster, but that's subjective.
And what concerns problems, I've yet to come across anything that would have created me too many troubles.
Anyway, what I can say is the the released product is better than the Customer Preview, and if you've been put off by that, I'd advise another look.
Tiffanys:
Ugh... you are a W8 fanboy, even if you don't mentally accept that you are. Take a look at yourself... you're sitting there on the bleeding edge trying a new OS and toting it to everyone with extreme rage in light of others who disagree with its amazingness. If you don't think that's W8 fanboying you need to just zoom out and get some perspective, sheesh.
With that said, an OS is not a game. A game being buggy won't potentially fuck your entire system or make your life inherently extremely difficult and add hours of searching for fixes. Well, sure, maybe if you just really want to play the game... But let's assume you use it for a work PC - that's just fucking stupid. Now if you want to experiment with it on a PC you don't do important things on, then well more power to you, whatever. But nobody that's worth a damn in computers upgrades to a new OS until at least a year or more after release. Bleeding edge is bad. Tested and reliable is good. Don't put yourself through unnecessary trouble when you could just wait for a more stable release.
And you act like everyone is going to be forced to go to W8, but lemme tell ya... They aren't. A lot of people, more than you know, opted to just completely skip Vista and go directly from XP to W7 and you know what? They didn't miss out on anything. In fact, they were probably a hell of a lot happier in the long run. Though to be honest... Vista turned into a pretty stable pretty good OS in the end after all of the updates. It sure as hell wasn't in the beginning.
Anyways... I'm too lazy to bother explaining why I'm going to pass on the OS entirely, but these videos explain it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CAuvlmPbJE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4VtNLl6Ca4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fsyb-ttcw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU&feature=player_embedded
Saras:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on November 23, 2012, 10:22:28 AM ---Ugh... you are a W8 fanboy, even if you don't mentally accept that you are. Take a look at yourself... you're sitting there on the bleeding edge trying a new OS and toting it to everyone with extreme rage in light of others who disagree with its amazingness. If you don't think that's W8 fanboying you need to just zoom out and get some perspective, sheesh.
With that said, an OS is not a game. A game being buggy won't potentially fuck your entire system or make your life inherently extremely difficult and add hours of searching for fixes. Well, sure, maybe if you just really want to play the game... But let's assume you use it for a work PC - that's just fucking stupid. Now if you want to experiment with it on a PC you don't do important things on, then well more power to you, whatever. But nobody that's worth a damn in computers upgrades to a new OS until at least a year or more after release. Bleeding edge is bad. Tested and reliable is good. Don't put yourself through unnecessary trouble when you could just wait for a more stable release.
And you act like everyone is going to be forced to go to W8, but lemme tell ya... They aren't. A lot of people, more than you know, opted to just completely skip Vista and go directly from XP to W7 and you know what? They didn't miss out on anything. In fact, they were probably a hell of a lot happier in the long run. Though to be honest... Vista turned into a pretty stable pretty good OS in the end after all of the updates. It sure as hell wasn't in the beginning.
Anyways... I'm too lazy to bother explaining why I'm going to pass on the OS entirely, but these videos explain it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CAuvlmPbJE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4VtNLl6Ca4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fsyb-ttcw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU&feature=player_embedded
--- End quote ---
Yes, extreme rage. That is precisely what I have. And for your info, I skipped vista just as I did with ME and used 98SE well until XP had a service pack.
And not really, no. Not everyone could voluntarily opt out from upgrading. I clearly recall the newer laptops having driver issues and the like just as I imagine that it will be similar in about 6 or so months time.
And no. These are not those days, I don't remember having to tweak the shit out of anything for years. It's generally easy as fuck to set redundant interlinked storage systems for the files you care for in case of a crash and burn. Just pick up your tablet or whatever the fuck else and continue on. Also that same stability isn't required either, it's not like I actually use my own computer to do the renderings, calculations or compilations, you've got the cloud and clusters for that shit. The issues of bleeding edge are non-issues nowadays for any home user. If you had to setup a system for a bank? Yes, I'd agree, but to watch anime?
Tiffanys:
...not all of us just watch Anime with our PC.
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