Anyone gone back to w7?

As much as I like Linux, I expect I'd just end up sticking in Windows most of the time for the "convenience" of having all my games ready to go.

I want a clean break to Linux when I do move, no Windows install left.
 
Tute said:
As much as I like Linux, I expect I'd just end up sticking in Windows most of the time for the "convenience" of having all my games ready to go.

I want a clean break to Linux when I do move, no Windows install left.
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I've stand alone Windows and Linux PCs as well :) ,two of each.

You also have to love Linux for Start Menu choices,

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Even with the Win8 launcher I never saw what the problem was and why people were up in arms about it. Once I became used to it - plain sailing.
 
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No it has two UI's the Metro and Classic. Turn off metro (add back the classic start menu) and you're left with the classic UI. The classic UI is 95% the same as Windows XP/Vista 7 UI.

I've set it up like this for a number of non techie users from 8 to 80 and they didn't notice any difference.
 
I must admit I've reverted back to 7 on my desktop due to eclipse and vmware being a bit crash happy on win 8. Might be a whole lot better on 8.1 but I'm in the middle of a project so don't want to play around too much just yet.

I think its the case ill pirate 8.1 before buying a license if it works fine. Would hate to buy another license I can't use.

Once I had disabled the app screen on boot (metro?) it was fine to work with just unstable program's I needed.
 
I wonder is it a driver issue. As its been rock solid for me on every machine. My only issue I couldn't drivers for some older hardware like ATI video chipsets on old laptops. Some games didn't like it either. That said some games didn't like Windows 7 either. Not much of a gamer anymore though.
 
Anyone on 8.1 having issues with cold boots being affected by having Avast AV installed? Seems to be an issue, there's discussion on it over on the avast forums.
 
OspreyO said:
No it has two UI's the Metro and Classic. Turn off metro (add back the classic start menu) and you're left with the classic UI. The classic UI is 95% the same as Windows XP/Vista 7 UI.

I've set it up like this for a number of non techie users from 8 to 80 and they didn't notice any difference.
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Actually its not - I thought it was at first but theres a lot of stuff where they've badly implemented ribbon features in place of previously working fine features in Windows 7 - areas where they've obviously gone something like "ooops we forgot we are going to need feature X" and stuck it randomly in the first bit of free space in the UI. Annoyingly with a bit of shell hacking, etc. you can see that most of the Windows 7 stuff is there under the surface but unused and/or probably just superficially disabled with worse functionality of the same features in its place.

One thing I do like is the new copy UI especially the speed graph thats a nice touch.

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Look at a few Linux distros since they run rings around ANY Windows for looks and general use.
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Some of the Linux distros can look nice but I've not seen any that can replace Windows 7 for general use and convenience - back in the day I built my own custom version of the x-window system (as in coded in major features, etc.) from the ground up on Debian and integrated fluxbox, etc. etc. while its nice if you've got a specific desktop use in mind I still find even the latest distros quite clunky as general OSes even if they look nice.

EDIT: Was nice for stuff like a super slim Debian install for specific application use with a minimalistic GUI and remote management via custom usermin/webmin control panels.
 
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