Windows 8 is....

humbug · 4 Oct 2013 at 13:53

Fugly, it looks like a cheap childs toy, it looks like they started drawring it in crayon and then said "yes thats the look were after...."

Honestly its really not a good look, i'm running it now in the hope BF4 will run better on it than 7, is this true?

Besty · 4 Oct 2013 at 13:57

humbug said:
Fugly, it looks like a cheap childs toy, it looks like they started drawring it in crayon and then said "yes thats the look were after...."

Honestly its really not a good look, i'm running it now in the hope BF4 will run better on it than 7, is this true?

Yes it will. Did you install 8 or 8.1 ?

humbug · 4 Oct 2013 at 13:58

Besty said:
Yes it will. Did you install 8 or 8.1 ?

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Helios1234 · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:06

Windows 8 looks lovely and is awesome.

Jono8 · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:08

I just moved to Windows 8. Loving it so far

. Except it lost some of my .exe icons for no reason. Fixed easily with an icon cache rebuild though.

smilertoo · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:10

and then apple innovated by copying the move for ios7. Win8 is ok once you add start8 to get the start menu back.

jonnyp1993 · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:10

I agree op. Cant stand 8. Win 7 all the way

Glanza · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:10

I don't mind it, it's not that bad, you can always change the theme to something less 'drawy'

Nelly · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:17

I'm getting Windows 8.1 when it's released in a couple of weeks, doing my Haswell upgrade this weekend, will make do with the Windows 8.1 preview for time being.

Daft question, but will all steam games work with Windows 8 now?

humbug · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:19

Nelly said:
I'm getting Windows 8.1 when it's released in a couple of weeks, doing my Haswell upgrade this weekend, will make do with the Windows 8.1 preview for time being.

Daft question, but will all steam games work with Windows 8 now?

They are for me, yes.

smilertoo · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:21

I didnt have any issues with my steam games on win8.

JoeF1 · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:21

Helios1234 said:
Windows 8 looks lovely and is awesome.

+1

I see nothing ugly with win8... :confused:

Nelly · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:21

humbug said:
They are for me, yes.

smilertoo said:

I didnt have any issues with my steam games on win8.

Click to expand...

Cool, if you find any that don't, then post in this thread if you can, I might make a new thread in the games section, see what the scope is...

Hope the graphics drivers are decent for Windows 8.1 uh oh... Nvidia lol

linktoinsanity · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:28

Put this in the Windows forum and wait for the usual crowd to jump on you. Seriously it's quite funny watching them jump on every single anti-Windows 8 thread.

I enjoy winding them up.

paradigm · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:36

What a novel thread, not seen one of these before.

Elevon · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:41

Giggz said:
I don't mind it, it's not that bad, you can always change the theme to something less 'drawy'

It's not bad ,all about customisation,here is mine on Win8.1 Pro x64 RTM and yes all my games run fine even Steam/Origin ones.

Remember with Win8.1 you can boot straight to the old desktop UI,

linktoinsanity · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:42

paradigm said:
What a novel thread, not seen one of these before.

I am getting sick of these. We know that some people don't like Windows 8. We also know that some people do. Can we not just leave it at that? I've repeated my gripes enough times, to have people ignore those gripes and not actually just admit, "Yes, an option would have been a good idea at least for the early OSes of the Start Screen."

If Elevon, theheyes, gareth & Glaucus all just agree to that I will stop posting it.

Silent_Scone · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:45

I'm not overly keen on it but I've not had the time to sit down and crack on to make it my own. So have just 'made do' with Windows 7. Elevon, how does Steams Big Picture mode work under it? Any problems?

marc2003 · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:45

@Elevon. i have to say that's probably the foulest start screen i've ever seen.

Elevon · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:53

MjFrosty said:
I'm not overly keen on it but I've not had the time to sit down and crack on to make it my own. So have just 'made do' with Windows 7. Elevon, how does Steams Big Picture mode work under it? Any problems?

When I click on Steam tile for example it launches to the old desktop UI like you get on Win7 with normal Steam UI etc,if you click the big picture mode it goes full screen sort of looks like Windows Store but Steam version,however when you exit Steam "to return to desktop" stays on the old desktop with normal Steam UI up .

No problems,however I normally just use the standard Steam UI ie not in big picture mode.

Here is screenshot of big picture mode,