Just bought a windoze 8.1 laptop

Apples2

I put it on my PC, for about an hour before I binned it and went back to Win7.
I now have a new Laptop with 8.1 and I'm fighting with myself to persevere with this awful OS.

Who needs to simply move the mouse to the top right corner and click the little red x when you can use keyboard shortcuts?
Who needs to move the mouse and click Control Panel when you can type it all out instead?

I only used to use keyboard shortcuts (Alt F4 and the like) when I couldn't be bothered reaching for the mouse but I guess this is in some beffuddled World considered progress.

I hope to goodness this silly OS is short lived.

ukcarper

Apples2 wrote: »

I put it on my PC, for about an hour before I binned it and went back to Win7.
I now have a new Laptop with 8.1 and I'm fighting with myself to persevere with this awful OS.

Who needs to simply move the mouse to the top right corner and click the little red x when you can use keyboard shortcuts?
Who needs to move the mouse and click Control Panel when you can type it all out instead?

I only used to use keyboard shortcuts (Alt F4 and the like) when I couldn't be bothered reaching for the mouse but I guess this is in some beffuddled World considered progress.

I hope to goodness this silly OS is short lived.

Really don't understand what you are complaining about I don't use short cuts I usual work in desktop and in that I can't see much difference between windows 7. If I want control panel I just right click on windows symbol and it's there.

sparkyspark

Check this out to eradicate Metro from your Windows 8.1 PC and tweaks to get your start screen back http://www.pcworld.com/article/2055381/how-to-eradicate-metro-from-your-windows-8-1-pc.html

almillar

Who needs to move the mouse and click Control Panel when you can type it all out instead?

This one is easy - on the desktop, move your mouse to the bottom right or top right corner and click to get the 'charms', click the cogwheel, and then Control Panel. This is quicker to get to than in Windows 7, but most people seem to make up their minds after 30 seconds. 'IT'S DIFFERENT! I HATE IT!'

Oblivion

almillar wrote: »

This one is easy - on the desktop, move your mouse to the bottom right or top right corner and click to get the 'charms', click the cogwheel, and then Control Panel. This is quicker to get to than in Windows 7, but most people seem to make up their minds after 30 seconds. 'IT'S DIFFERENT! I HATE IT!'

How is that quicker than in Windows 7 where you can simply and permanently Pin Control Panel to your start menu ... then it's just 2 clicks (Start Button > Control Panel) as opposed to your 3 clicks?

KxMx

Move mouse, double click control panel short cut (here is one I made earlier ala Blue Peter)
See, easy peasy with Windows 8
Shock, horror! :eek:

People don't like Windows 8 because it is different
People don't spend enough time with it before giving up

On the many Win8 topics there have been several useful suggestions (such as a stripped down metro screen) and ways to customise it as you would with any OS or PC.

But the haters they're not interested in common sense There are free programs to make it look like Windows has looked for donkey's years- for those that insist a computer must look like it did 15 years ago- but that's still not enough for the haters.

I have my issues with Win 8 and things I would change but I certainly do not hate it, been using it happily for over 6 months now and fail to see where the level of vitriol people spill against it comes from. Certainly not reality that's for sure. I went from XP by the way.

Apples2

It's very shallow to accuse anyone who doesn't like it of being some kind of dinosaur. It is right along the Fanboy route trying to take a higher ground because one opinion is obviously right, the others are all duffers.

Win8 is designed from the ground up to sit on a tablet.
It maybe novel and "cool" to slide you finger from the top to the bottom, hold it there for three seconds and watch the little window spin 180 degrees to close an app but what use is that in a business world?

Even touchscreen laptops are more of a gimmick, useful in some ways but the whole construction of a laptop doesn't really make it either useful or comfortable to use over a long period.

Being different is no reason to hate it, I love my touchscreen Nexus and my iPad but both are suitable devices to have touch/slide/gimmicks on. As is a Windows phone which also seems quite neat but a desktop PC or Laptop for productive work? No thanks.

ukcarper

Oblivion wrote: »

How is that quicker than in Windows 7 where you can simply and permanently Pin Control Panel to your start menu ... then it's just 2 clicks (Start Button > Control Panel) as opposed to your 3 clicks?

In 8.1 you just right click on windows symbol where start button is on 7 then left click on Control Panel same number of clicks.

I really don't understand all the complaints I just let in boot into Metro screen and then click desktop yes another click but windows 8 boots so much quicker I'm still in desktop quicker than windows 7.


I wouldn't upgrade an existing PC to it but I'm quite happy to use it on a new PC.

securityguy

Apples2 wrote: »

It's very shallow to accuse anyone who doesn't like it of being some kind of dinosaur. It is right along the Fanboy route trying to take a higher ground because one opinion is obviously right, the others are all duffers.

Win8 is designed from the ground up to sit on a tablet.
It maybe novel and "cool" to slide you finger from the top to the bottom, hold it there for three seconds and watch the little window spin 180 degrees to close an app but what use is that in a business world?

But "what use is that in the business world?" is just a variation on the "Fanboy...taking the higher ground". It's the "well, that might be all very well for you trivial people, but I have real work and therefore understand these things so much better". Ironically, it's most often deployed for "traditional" Windows versus everything else, when on release Windows was derided as a toy by people using command-line DOS.

almillar

How is that quicker than in Windows 7 where you can simply and permanently Pin Control Panel to your start menu ... then it's just 2 clicks (Start Button > Control Panel) as opposed to your 3 clicks?

Well if you're going to create shortcuts, do it in 8.1 too! Pin it to the Taskbar, 1 click.

It's very shallow to accuse anyone who doesn't like it of being some kind of dinosaur.

I wouldn't want to be doing this, but I'm talking about people who use it for less than 5 minutes, or just hear about it from someone in the pub. Not giving it a chance, or just jumping on a bandwagon isn't advice that should be repeated.

Being different is no reason to hate it, I love my touchscreen Nexus and my iPad but both are suitable devices to have touch/slide/gimmicks on. As is a Windows phone which also seems quite neat but a desktop PC or Laptop for productive work? No thanks.

You are aware that there's still a desktop which would be very familiar to anyone who has used Windows 95?! Gestures are not required.