Chit-Chat PC Fastfood Inc. Page 142

Started by Honest June 20th, 2013 8:31 PM
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Catalyst.

Nothing of significance

Male
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Seen December 29th, 2013
Posted November 15th, 2013
126 posts
10.5 Years
My gaming PC is running windows 8, and it's really not bad once you get used to it, especially since I never used the start button anyway. The only thing I really miss is the search, which you can still get through the charms bar. Whatever quirks it has were well worth the performance boost - boot went from about 6 seconds on win7 to nearly instant on w8. Also, kms has to be redone every few months, but that doesn't apply if you *cough*buy a legal copy *cough*. Haven't tried Skype yet though, so well have to she about that. :-)

Kotone

someone needed a doctor?

Female
somewhere ;]
Seen June 29th, 2018
Posted June 14th, 2018
2,787 posts
14.1 Years
i use windows 8 and everything works okay to me.

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alisaie

they/them
Seen March 14th, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2022
13,598 posts
14.8 Years
My mom has Windows 8 and I'm okay with it. Then again it's not actually my computer and I only have used it to just browse the internet when I couldn't on my computer so I suppose that I can't say much.

Cherrim

Age 34
she / her
Toronto
Online now
Posted 1 Week Ago
33,049 posts
20.4 Years
I threw Windows 8 on the media PC connected to the TV in my house and wooow I hate it so much. Nothing about it is intuitive for me and it's often a fight to figure out how to do something. So I pretty much constantly leave it on the traditional desktop and hope I never have to do anything more advanced than web browsing or finding files in a folder with it. :/

I'm really glad I tested it out on a PC I don't care much about since I'd originally been thinking of upgrading my main desktop to it. I won't go anywhere near it now so that's one crisis averted.


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Catalyst.

Nothing of significance

Male
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Seen December 29th, 2013
Posted November 15th, 2013
126 posts
10.5 Years
I'm legitimately curious how about how people don't know how to do things in Windows 8. I use my PC /a lot/, and as I said above, the only drastically different thing I noticed was the search feature, which admittedly still annoys me. :P

Cherrim

Age 34
she / her
Toronto
Online now
Posted 1 Week Ago
33,049 posts
20.4 Years
The menus in anything metro (I know they stopped using that name for the boxy design even before it came out but I don't know what else to call it) are non-existent. Sometimes you get them by right clicking (I think?), sometimes you have to move your cursor into a specific corner at either just the right angle or speed or position, and sometimes it just doesn't have menus. I'm alright with anything that opens in the traditional desktop but god forbid a media file open in one of the metro apps. I'm hopeless when that happens. :(

I imagine I'd pick it up if I were forced to use it exclusively on my main computer but why bother? Windows 7 is so much more user-friendly for me.


paired with professor plum.

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I suppose you can say I'm one of those people who really don't understand the hate of Windows 8. I can understand how it's difficult to look for files and the such, but there is a search button so you can search for all of your programs, and a folder button at the bottom that can kinda act as a psuedo-"My Computer" kind of thing, so you can look through files and such.

However, admittedly, I do miss the start button as much as the next guy. I suppose I just have enough patience to ignore the downsides of Windows 8, since I only really browse the web and stuff, so it doesn't really bother me. ._.;
Basically this. I don't love windows 8, nor hate it. There's still a few flaws, but it's still very tolerable like other windows OSs.

Aeroblast

Male
Basement
Seen February 25th, 2017
Posted February 25th, 2017
4,173 posts
9.8 Years
Thing is, if you're not technologically literate then Windows 8 is very difficult to use. My mom asks me ALL THE ****ING TIME (Yes, I have to use all caps because it's so frustrating) asking me to shut down the damn computer because she can't do it herself. It's just not as user friendly as it was and I don't know why Microsoft had to change it.
If you're not technologically literate, then wouldn't that really apply to just about any Windows OS, if I'm correct? I don't see it as being that difficult to hover your mouse over the corner and go to settings -> power > Shutdown. Sure, there's an extra step than in windows 7, but is that really something to complain about?

Haha, I just don't see this as a big deal, but at the same time, I can see how the drastic change can be cumbersome for a good amount of people, I suppose.

Change is a bigger issue for some and while I am not a huge fan of change, when I upgrade to Windows 8 I don't think it will be too big of an issue for me. I also agree with Megan, I neither love it nor hate it.

Catalyst.

Nothing of significance

Male
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Seen December 29th, 2013
Posted November 15th, 2013
126 posts
10.5 Years
I love it mostly for the fast boot time, everything else I'm pretty indifferent about. I prefer Mac OS X for everything, so I really only use this for gaming - boot, go into desktop, start game, play, exit game, shut down - so maybe I'd find it more annoying if I used it for everything, haha.

Aeroblast

Male
Basement
Seen February 25th, 2017
Posted February 25th, 2017
4,173 posts
9.8 Years
If you're not technologically literate, then wouldn't that really apply to just about any Windows OS, if I'm correct? I don't see it as being that difficult to hover your mouse over the corner and go to settings -> power > Shutdown. Sure, there's an extra step than in windows 7, but is that really something to complain about?

Haha, I just don't see this as a big deal, but at the same time, I can see how the drastic change can be cumbersome for a good amount of people, I suppose.
She keeps saying she can't see the options come up and she really struggles with just about everything with Windows 8. For some people, especially for those who are technologically challenged, remembering the corners and hovering over them is an unnecessarily difficult task. Maybe for me extra step is not something that's big to complain about, but why make things more complicated in the first place? And don't even get me started on the Start button, though we have no clue what 8.1 has in store for us.

Reason why I keep Windows 8, though, is improvement on general efficiency. However, it's difficult to appreciate Windows 8 If you're not so tech-savvy, like many of the population, and that's my viewpoint because I'm trying to speak for them.

Morkula

Get in the Game

Age 34
Male
Virginia
Seen February 6th, 2020
Posted March 4th, 2018
7,294 posts
19.3 Years
I use Windows 8 at work, and while I like the almost-instant boot times and the general snappiness of it, I hate how everything is hidden without any easy way to access it beyond the search box. Menus are practically nonexistent, the start menu is useless, and settings are scattered haphazardly everywhere.

Windows 7 was nearly perfect, and I plan on using it at home as long as I can.

Somniac

Probably sleeping.

Age 31
Female
united kingdom
Seen September 1st, 2021
Posted June 23rd, 2017
736 posts
10.4 Years
I love it mostly for the fast boot time, everything else I'm pretty indifferent about. I prefer Mac OS X for everything, so I really only use this for gaming - boot, go into desktop, start game, play, exit game, shut down - so maybe I'd find it more annoying if I used it for everything, haha.
I use Windows 8 at work, and while I like the almost-instant boot times and the general snappiness of it, I hate how everything is hidden without any easy way to access it beyond the search box. Menus are practically nonexistent, the start menu is useless, and settings are scattered haphazardly everywhere.

Windows 7 was nearly perfect, and I plan on using it at home as long as I can.
Any OS will boot fast if it's on a SSD, I personally still use Win7 because it's so much easier to customize. Windows 8 was a great idea for mobile devices, and works wonderfully on tablets and phones. Windows7 is far better for actual PCs.

The old windows OS rule of good OS's every other iteration still stands.
Spoiler:

Windows 2000 was great.

Windows millennium was awful

windows XP was great

Windows Vista was awful

Windows 7 was great

Windows 8 was awful.

I'm excited for 2015-2017



Anyway, whats up DCC? It's certainly been a while, in-fact last time I posted was in the previous thread I think.
As some users know; My absence is due to the fact that i'm in the process of writing a novel, and have been for around 3 months now.

Yes I'm still being a tight-arse when it comes to giving out details. No additional news since the last time.

Oh go on then, maybe a little teaser...
Spoiler:



Also, I had a meeting with a publishing house and got a bunch of feedback, and assurance that they are interested in publishing for me which is pretty incredible.

Go me, getting stuff done and things.

Tsutarja

Age 28
he / him
Florida
Seen 5 Hours Ago
Posted 6 Days Ago
27,325 posts
13.2 Years
Oh my gosh, all this tech talk in the DCC has made me so happy today x)

@Somniac You're writing a novel? That sounds really cool!
Oh my gosh, all this tech talk in the DCC has made me so happy today x)

@Somniac You're writing a novel? That sounds really cool!

I was just thinking when I clicked on this thread that "I bet Zach is enjoying this topic". I actually thought for a second that this was the T&I DCC, haha.

Also that is wonderful about the novel!! =D