DEAR GOD THIS IS AWFUL! HOW THE FUCK DID WINDOWS 8 EVEN HAPPEN?WHAT WAS THIS PLACE'S REACTION TO WINDOWS 8 RELEASE?
>>108433989It was the only good windows. Why do you need acres of empty space on your desktop?
>>108434000>It was the only good windows
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>>108433989Windows 8 meme from 2013.
>>108433989Another one.
>>108433989Windows 10 did this 10x better.
>>108433989>Nigga doesn't know that he could just right click on the tiles and remove them, essentially turning windows 8 into windows 7Lmao.
>>108433989That’s what we were wondering. We wondered it WAY louder than the estro/g/en npcs parroting Linux distributions like they’re some kind of alternate option. How the fuck do you get rid of the Start button and menu? It was a huge New Coke moment for Microsoft. Windows RT was an even bigger joke. Go read up on that. Way bigger than 11 has been lately
>>108433989>HOW THE FUCK DID WINDOWS 8 EVEN HAPPEN?It was right around the advent of when tablet computers like the iPad got popular, and so the UI was designed to work primarily on tablets. As you might expect, it doesn't work on desktop computing environments and nobody liked it, which is why 10 came out to fix it.
>>108433989it was literally GNOME
>>108434197That's not an improvement, it's the same thing
>>108433989I heard that Windows 8.1 wasn't so bad, but it was too late.
>>108434339I heard both windows 8 and 8.1 were better than windows 7 but because of the stupid start menu most people didn't even try 8
>>1084343398.1 with classicshell is just 7 with the wider compatibility of 10, at the expense of the questionable settings menu setupyou can debloat it and simplify it down to a very similar level to how 7 operates, without all the later intrusive bloat and lack of user control that 10 hasbut since its surprisingly close to 10 its gotten way better software support as more and more stuff ditches 7so its the next step for the reluctant windows 7 user whos still trying to stay online and mainstream, because in a few years here 7 is likely going to be in the same boat as XP and Vista where very little modern anything works on it and even the browser options will become feature limited over time
>>108434260This is true
>>108433989It's comfy and nostalgic but chuds hate it because their millennial internet daddies said so.
Metro was over hated because they deemphasized the desktop causing a lot of baby ducks to be upset>>108434272Literally fixed everything wrong with 8
It felt disjointed and rushed, 2 separate desktop paradigms, lots of duplicated settings panels, the old win32 ones and the dumbed down metro ones for mobile users, eventually they would just take out the win32 ones in windows 10 and afterwards
>>108433989I liked it, actually. I use GNOME nowadays and a lot of people use it, only Windows users complain about that shit
>>108433989imagine your whole UI being os version dependant lmao
>>108433989only thing bad about it is all the default tiles are near uselessbut you can remove all of them and replace/reorganize with your own, after which you get a program launcher far better than the old start menuit's insane how everyone seems to have baby duck syndrome over it
>>108434072What is this nonsense? The tiles were just the full screen start menu. Otherwise you had a normal desktop with resizeable windows.
>>108434339Windows 8 is better than both 7 and 8.1. The people who whined about the start menu were and are still complete retards. There have been programs to change it since forever. Knowing that, 8.1 only adds shit and piss to the perfect 8
>>108434339W8.1 didn't fix anything. All they did is turning desktop mode into a single app. You couldn't alt+tab between the new control panel and your desktop because they are two different apps.
>>108433989I remember liking, but to be fair, I had a touchscreen laptop. Microshart's main fuckup was not making it a separate edition
>>108433989>WHAT WAS THIS PLACE'S REACTION TO WINDOWS 8 RELEASE?You didn't. You just stayed with Windows 7 and told everyone to do the same. Friends didn't let friends use Winblows 8.
No seriously it wasn't that badYou just had to realize right clicking start menu is was now the new left click menu, try your hardest to never press the thing between alt and ctrl
8.1 added a start menu people didn't like and a settings menu nobody touched, along with some stupid applications you could just not have installed. But it was faster.10 added cortana, more telemetry, updates every 6 months that would break shit, scheduler changes that fucked everything up, forced windows defender, they had people split between versions because it got just too fucking bad, a lot of shit you could not remove without breaking something else, inconsistent everything UI wise, forced updates you couldn't select and tried to replace a lot of control panel settings with confusing or lacking settings pages. And shit like candy crush reinstalling itself.But people pretend 8 was this horrible thing, and that 10 is actually good because 11 exists.
>>108435304So use the older control panel then. The beauty of it is that for the most part, it remained there in 8.1, instead of clicking on control panel options and being greeted with a stupid white block of nonsense with 2 settings and 5 links to "how do I do this" that didn't tell you shit.Seriously I only remember one single setting in that new settings panel on 8.1 that wasn't accessible the traditional way.
Windows phones UI.. sovl...
>>108435915It really was ;_;
The whole internet reaction was "What in the fuck are these retards doing?"Particularly because windows phone still existed and it looked like they were trying to turn Windows into Windows Phone. honestly though, 8.1 was good and I unironically liked the metro tiles start menu. It's better than the Win10 and Win11 start menus.
>>108433989The start screen was a dumb decision by Microsoft, but it was trivial to get the old start menu back. 8.1 is unironically the best Windows version, but Microsoft quickly killed it in favour of 10.
> https://web.archive.org/web/20120619193348/http://www.techbroil.com/2012/06/windows-8-sucks.html> Get it through your fucking heads: Windows 8 sucks. It's not "fear of change", that's a lazy excuse for a rejected product. If Mcdonald's found out that 80% of their customers didn't like a new hamburger they wouldn't go on a campaign to convince them that they are afraid of change. They would go back to the drawing board and try something new.
>>108436820Put it in full screen and w10 is the same thing though?
>>108436887Yeah that's what I did when I still had Win10. Win11 sucks balls. I got sucked into it, thinking the direct ssd access would be good for vidya after sony made such a song and dance about it with the ps5. God I hope Gabe manages to get Proton able to fully replace windows for vidya.
>>108433989There were windows tablets at the time.It worked well enough for those lol.
>>108435915>>108436805https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.squarehome2There's couple of others, too. I'm using this one.
This is how it went>hmm this worked well for Xbox, a system where a keyboard and mouse don't exist and you have to prioritize basic seamless UI over functionality>maybe we'll extend it to Windows!
you cretins will backpaddle on everything given enough time it was dogshit when it came out it's still dogshit today it looks like dogshit it feels like dogshit to use and if UIs had smells you can probably already guess what this one would smell like (dogshit)
>pretending to get mad about a 15 year old operating system that's already EOL>pretending to like said operating system to be contrarian and fish for attention because the site has devolved into the equivalent of getting the first comment on a youtube video
>>108434373would people really move to 8.1 instead of 10? IOT LTSC is alright, every there though windows 11 spying has been back ported but AFAIK it's still possible to keep it out. Hopefully with security updates only too, it wouldn't be hard to keep it that way.
>>108438585>would people really move to 8.1 instead of 10?I am sure the people still on 7 will, but that group is very small. Win10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is as far as I will go and I think that the little time we have left will make that decision moot.
>>108433989SAXO w/ Alexandra Chang
>>108438724>the little time we have leftDon't remind me, 2032 is like 20 years away. god what do we even do? I don't like Ubuntu for reasons I don't even remember, mint is for hipsters, and arch is annoying to deal with when it breaks. 10 has placated me enough that I haven't even kept up with most distros. It seems like my options are Debian, the penguin, or going outside which all seem tedious
>>108433989MS was really into tablets and somehow forgot that the vast majority of their users were on PCs with keyboards & pointing devices rather than touchscreens.
>>108438771>or going outsideI have been packed for almost 10 years.
>>108433989I just made it boot to the desktop by default so I never had to use the stupid metro interface. Using classic shell I got the start button back. It was windows 7 at the point. I skipped 7 entirely on my personal computer. I went from xp and switched to 8 in 2014. Switched to 10 in like 2016 or something, so 8 was my shortest OS. Come to think of it, in my lifetime I haven't used many OS's. Dos (geoworks and windows 3.1 gui's), windows 95, windows xp, 8, and 10. I'm on 10 enterprise ltsc now. That's all I have ever used.
>>108434260GNOME 3 was released one year prior.
>>108438771>and arch is annoying to deal with when it breaksInstall CachyOS bro, it just werks.Dont go to Debian. Pajeeta in charge is going to sell it out to the government soon. Dont go to Ubuntu, they suck. Dont go to Mint, it sucks.
I like live tiles and I think all the backlash was the usual baby duck bullshit.
>>108438849>CachyOS>Arch but just werks unironically if this is done well it might be exactly what I wantedthanks
>>108433989LMAO SEETHING BOOMER FUCK DIE ALREADY
>>108438771>what do we even do?Just stay on 10? what do you seriously do that'll need you ever need to update
>>108433989Windows 8 is actually the best Windows ever made once you restore the Start menu
>>108439918Windows 8.1 actually
the start screen is clearly superior. people just rejected it because they dislike change and they wrongly associated it with touch-only UIs
>>108440092Nah the ui was shit but it was from a technical point the best windows (8.1)Memory management was great, it felt snappy, it was powerful, could be run in ram, etc it all went downhill after 8, windows 11 is more telemetry than os
>>108439892I'm an engineering student and if I don't end up dying I imagine I'll probably still be using this software while also not being provided hardware. I've tried everything, it will not run on anything but windows (it's fucking JAVA)
native win8.1 calculator triggered me, It's either take full screen or quarter of your screenAesthetic is a cycle, flat design will popular again in next decade
>>108433989I actually loved it.>Be me>14>Mom gets me and my brother an ASUS laptop with 8.1 on it for christmas 2014>Find the menu cool>Simply remove the tiles i didn't want>Add stuff i did want>Oh cool i can have two different wallpapers>Make picrel my wallpaper for the start menujust wished the tiles had more customization options.
>>108436903just dual boot, Linux is a completely separate ball game with its own rules, expectations and conventions; you will need to re-learn *a lot* of things. might as well start learning now!
>>108433989it was rolled out the same time as the windblows phone and their retarded surface all in one computers. they thought touch screens were the future of computer interface. 8.1 is essentially what gave you windows 10.
>>108434339I had a windows 8.1 machine and I can't recall having any strong opinions about it, which is one of the best opinions a person can have about an OS.
>>108433989It was fine on its own, the problem was that all the programs would still pop up in a traditional UI, leaving you with a very jarring experience.
>>108437209>and you have to prioritize basic seamless UI over functionalitywhat functionality has been lost with the Start screen that the Start menu had?
>>108438782in what way does the Start screen hinder you in using a keyboard or pointing device?
>>108433989I liked windows 8 personally, cant remeber using that view too much but the sharp edges on everything was so fresh and I still use sharp corners on everything even to this day
>>108438821Is this meant to be a rebuttal
Windows 10 at release was so bad, it made me actually switch to macOS.But eventually, I wanted to switch to Windows, because there was a lot of shit I couldn't do.So I ended up on 8.1 and trying 10 on and off somewhere else.Up until around 2018, maybe even later than that, 10 remained annoyingly bad. I had a lot of problems with it that I would never experience on 8.1. When I had to leave 8.1 because of AMD deciding it was a good idea to cut off support I was fucking pissed. I had something actually stable. Stable. The most boring OS I've used. I became more fucking productive because of it. I didn't need to mind the fucking thing.
