Win8 or Win7 decisions

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Hi all

so ive used both for a fair while now win7 for a years Win8 for a month and a bit. however im getting a new manchine soon and i don't which one to use
i wanted your comments here's my own rundown.

Win8:
Advantages:
Faster & nippy than Win7
Metro Apps are very good love the auto updates
Direct X 11.1 (if that is an advantage)
Easy to use low resources
the future,more apps

Disadvantages
Desktop & Metro fill quite disjointed from each other
had 1 or to game issues (not to bad)
annoying graphic driver bug.
(open flash video on 2nd screen in full screen 1st screen flickers & makes video stutter)

win7
advantages
fast, but not as fast as win8
Easy to use low resources
no disjointed desktop
everything works under win7 "out of the box"


disadvantages
no metro
no directx11 +
not as nippy
 
If you can live with Windows 8 then you should use it, it's got all the latest security features and is the latest Microsoft OS, so it would be silly to stay with 7.
 
8 is faster and more secure. 7 is less irritating!

I'm sticking with 7 on my main desktop, but if I was building a new one I'd probably install 8.
 
7 for sure,Windows 8 feels weird on a regular desktop computer if you don't have a touchscreen.

The whole metro thing just seems to get in the way for me and find it harder to navigate to where i want to go.
 
Nevakonaza said:
The whole metro thing just seems to get in the way for me and find it harder to navigate to where i want to go.
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posts like this get me ...

if u know what your doing then 99% of the time u don't even have to touch metro just put all your most used programs / games on your desktop.... even for shutdown/restart ect u just press alt + F4 at the desktop..

also even if u use metro u can customize the start screen to have all your most used programs / games then with 2 clicks you've opened a program or game, in fact that's less clicks than using a start menu which needs 3 or 4 clicks

example... using a start menu you'd click start then point to all programs then u may need to click the slider up/down then click on I.E steam folder so it drops down the list then click steam to start it... so that's 4 clicks

using metro, from the desktop go to bottom left and click then move your mouse fully right or left to slide right or left then click on the program or game u want to start.. so that's 2 clicks
 
Nevakonaza said:
Are we not entitled to our own opinions?

The OP asked,i gave my answer.
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yes but it clearly shows u haven't gave win8/metro a chance or not even been bothered to lean the new UI or find shortcuts, ect to do things quicker...

I bet u found little shortcuts / keyboard shortcuts, ect, on previous windows OS's to do things quicker...
 
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Blue160 said:
Gareth, not everyone likes Windows 8!

They're not doing it just to annoy you :p
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yes I know.

not everyone likes Windows vista / 7 ect also.

but i'm just saying if them people didn't give win8/metro a chance and not even been bothered to lean the new UI or find shortcuts, ect to do things quicker... then how can they make comments about it..

I've gave a example above on how using the metro start screen can cut down the number of clicks to open a program / game compared to using a start menu
 
gareth170 said:
yes but it clearly shows u haven't gave win8/metro a chance or not even been bothered to lean the new UI or find shortcuts, ect to do things quicker...

I bet u found little shortcuts / keyboard shortcuts, ect, on previous windows OS's to do things quicker...
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That the big problem with windows 8
You shouldn't need to have to learn & play around for hours/days looking for shortcuts and getting used to it..:(

Windows 8 having no start menu makes it much harder to use & find stuff for the avg user then windows 7..
 
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chaparral said:
That the big problem with windows 8
You shouldn't need to have to learn & play around for hours/days looking for shortcuts and getting used to it..:(

Windows 8 having no start menu makes it much harder to use & find stuff for the avg user then windows 7..
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but people had to lean & play around for hours/days looking for shortcuts and getting used to a new UI in windows 95... if people had they way windows would have still looked like windows 3.11. because some people was moaning about the new UI

windows UI shouldn't stay the same just because some people are to lazy learn & play around for hours/days looking for shortcuts / getting used to it..

it was about time MS changed the UI to a modern UI design.
 
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Nevakonaza said:
7 for sure,Windows 8 feels weird on a regular desktop computer if you don't have a touchscreen.

The whole metro thing just seems to get in the way for me and find it harder to navigate to where i want to go.
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And even if you do have a touchscreen still weird as touchscreens just do not work on desktops, the ergonomics are all wrong.
 
Nevakonaza said:
7 for sure,Windows 8 feels weird on a regular desktop computer if you don't have a touchscreen.

The whole metro thing just seems to get in the way for me and find it harder to navigate to where i want to go.
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I disagree,Win8 for sure, infact its very easy to use Win8 as a desktop user like I'm and avoid Metro 99% of the time if you want,infact Win8 is very easy to navigate around IMHO,I've all my shortcuts etc.. done for desktop or pinned to taskbar and shortcuts in even Metro for non desktop stuff I need,oh and you don't need a third party Start Menu(never thought I would say that as a die hard desktop user lol).

End of the day Win8 is solid ,fast OS and bit more future proof then 7.


Btw I don't use touchscreen,I'm a die hard desktop user so if I can find Win8 easy to customize like Win7 etc...then anybody can,if they can't then they are either lying or being lazy.
 
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chaparral said:
That the big problem with windows 8
You shouldn't need to have to learn & play around for hours/days looking for shortcuts and getting used to it..:(

Windows 8 having no start menu makes it much harder to use & find stuff for the avg user then windows 7..
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Third world problems eh? Learning a handful of new features is so difficult...

8 has a start menu what do you think metro is?
 
gareth170 said:
:confused:


example... using a start menu you'd click start then point to all programs then u may need to click the slider up/down then click on I.E steam folder so it drops down the list then click steam to start it... so that's 4 clicks
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I can open programs with 2 clicks from start menu...click start, type first 4 letters of program hit enter/click on correct result
 
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