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Windows 8.1 over Windows 7 ??
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Again, I disagree. Windows 7 is more familiar and easier to use (in my opinion). I'd recommend upgrading to that from say, XP, rather than going from XP to 8.
Just my opinion.
More familiar? Than changing a few settings in windows. And installing start is back or one of the many others.
Thus you have the exact same familiarity. A far superior os and a cheaper os.
So no, although its your opinion, it makes absolutely no sense.
And then what in 2,4.6 years time? Tell people never to upgrade again as theres a several hour learning curve?
As well as for most users metro actually offers much better usability. Both on tablet and phone people are used to seeing emails, weather etc, something metro copies. Whilst still having an identical desktop.
Then we have automatic snap screen, when you open links, which is better usability for everyone. Amongst many other enhancements.
Let alone all the underlying stuff
Thus you have the exact same familiarity. A far superior os and a cheaper os.
So no, although its your opinion, it makes absolutely no sense.
And then what in 2,4.6 years time? Tell people never to upgrade again as theres a several hour learning curve?
As well as for most users metro actually offers much better usability. Both on tablet and phone people are used to seeing emails, weather etc, something metro copies. Whilst still having an identical desktop.
Then we have automatic snap screen, when you open links, which is better usability for everyone. Amongst many other enhancements.
Let alone all the underlying stuff
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Let's just agree to disagree on this one.
If you're reading this, don't do what I say, do what you want, it's a free country after all.
If you're reading this, don't do what I say, do what you want, it's a free country after all.
It's still worth the investment at this stage, given how many years of support Win7 has left.
I say if you have Windows 7, 8 isn't worth the upgrade for keyboard and mouse users. It offers mainly small tweaks and improvements if all you're going to do is strip Metro out of it.
If buying new I'd buy whichever you can get cheaper.
On a phone or tablet it's another story entirely.
If buying new I'd buy whichever you can get cheaper.
On a phone or tablet it's another story entirely.
Windows 8 has certain technical inferiorities that degrade the desktop experience in order to ease things for Microsoft in supporting e.g. tablets. For example, ClearType font rendering. In Windows 7 you have RGB subpixel smoothing, whereas in Windows 8 this is performed in grayscale only to more easily support screen rotation. The result? What you are doing right now - reading this post - is an inferior experience on Windows 8 to Windows 7. As most people read text on screen *a lot*, it's a significant difference.
I reverted to Windows 7 from Windows 8 as the fonts look crap, and that makes, in some tangible way for the desktop user, Windows 8 an inferior OS with missing functionality.
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I better uninstall my copy of Windows 8 that I've been running for months because what you said sounds awful.
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Finally, someone with some sense.
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don't be such a **** all your life. i don't have any problems with the fonts either but i don't feel the need to be sarcastic about it to someone who obviously does. :/
I have W7 Pro on my gaming machine and W8 on my laptop.
The difference between is purely cosmetic for your average user (thats me) who doesn't really use a lot of the more advanced stuff in Windows and while I have nothing bad to say about W8, I much prefer W7.
I've had a few issues with W8 though that I've never had on any version of Windows before, the worst being the mouse lag bug when I upgraded to 8.1, fortunately I do very little gaming on my laptop so it wasn't a biggy but if that was on my desktop it would have been replaced by W7 immediately.
I'd say just buy whichever suits your wallet the best.
The difference between is purely cosmetic for your average user (thats me) who doesn't really use a lot of the more advanced stuff in Windows and while I have nothing bad to say about W8, I much prefer W7.
I've had a few issues with W8 though that I've never had on any version of Windows before, the worst being the mouse lag bug when I upgraded to 8.1, fortunately I do very little gaming on my laptop so it wasn't a biggy but if that was on my desktop it would have been replaced by W7 immediately.
I'd say just buy whichever suits your wallet the best.
April 2014.
Mouse lag only effected certain games,the fix/patch is out at Microsoft website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2908279 so it's no longer an issue.
Indeed, but it was an issue at the point of upgrade and wasn't fixed very quickly imo, but at least it has been patched now though.
I play quite a few older games on my laptop and it drove me nuts for while.
It doesn't detract from W8 being fine as an OS though.
First time I have heard that particular complaint, which suggests to me in the grand scheme of things is not actually a massive problem.
That's fine, but you could have poor eyesight, or be the sort of person who can't taste the difference between a Pot Noodle and Michelin-starred cuisine i.e. have little appreciate of quality.