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i) I've had Windows 8 for 3 days. I had mentally prepared for the worst. I am known to get frustrated, so I mentally prepared for that too.
I'm taking it slow with Windows 8 - because I hate it. But I feel there must be some good to it, so I'll filter out the bad and try not to focus too much on such until I find, understand, and appreciate the good.
1) I stopped liking the Start Button format years ago. Things got too nested and lost. I like what Win8 is doing - kind of.
I still want there to be a button. Having a little window popup can be nice, but I prefer the button. The menu that slides in from the right hand side doesn't even work half the time and gets in the way of scrolling when I don't need it to show.
2) The colored boxes within the new start take too damn long to load. And once they are loaded, it isn't entirely clear what they are supposed to do. Dragging from top to bottom to close them in unacceptable - worse than Mac buttons being on the lefthand side. I want them to be in their own windows, things I can resize and minimize and close and adjust how I see fit. Want to have a fullscreen mode for the colored boxes? Sure, but don't make it the only option.
3) Windows 8 seems to be affecting my internet connection. We have half a dozen household devices that use the internet, both wired and wireless. Two devices, one wired, one wireless, have connection problems and none others do. These 2 have Win8. Wired connection loses every 40-200 seconds and is out for less than 1 second. The delay is like jboots vs tboots - there is a difference and that delay kills. The wireless device forces the user to completely reenter network passwords and etc.
4) Can the 'app store' green box be any less user friendly? Where is the search? Why is it stretched out across multiple screens and not just condensed to one with maybe a menu on the left for things that are hidden.
5) Speaking of content stretched over several screens, which I figure is this "ribbon" you guys are talking about, I can understand one section of content shown one at a time. It's inefficient, but I understand it. What I'm getting is two sections with voids between them and a half of a third section I have to scroll to see. With the "Travel" box, for example, there is a massive picture with some descriptions on the right, but every one of them is cut off so you cannot actually utilize them without scrolling.
6) f' scrolling.
Edit: I've been crawling through the pages in this thread to see what others are doing: @Jeydax - Those 'easy' to install programs that fix all the problems are only good if they are known about. Before reading this thread, I hadn't heard of any of the apps mentioned in this thread. 'Simply Googling apps to install to fix programs' is an anxiety inducing process because you'll never know what you're going to get. The program might be trial only, or have hidden fees. It might be a trojan or virus. A scam? Googling reviews for random apps is just as bad, pages of noise that don't really say anything or perhaps provide misinformation. It's a tiring process that takes much longer than 15 seconds.
I'm taking it slow with Windows 8 - because I hate it. But I feel there must be some good to it, so I'll filter out the bad and try not to focus too much on such until I find, understand, and appreciate the good.
1) I stopped liking the Start Button format years ago. Things got too nested and lost. I like what Win8 is doing - kind of.
I still want there to be a button. Having a little window popup can be nice, but I prefer the button. The menu that slides in from the right hand side doesn't even work half the time and gets in the way of scrolling when I don't need it to show.
2) The colored boxes within the new start take too damn long to load. And once they are loaded, it isn't entirely clear what they are supposed to do. Dragging from top to bottom to close them in unacceptable - worse than Mac buttons being on the lefthand side. I want them to be in their own windows, things I can resize and minimize and close and adjust how I see fit. Want to have a fullscreen mode for the colored boxes? Sure, but don't make it the only option.
3) Windows 8 seems to be affecting my internet connection. We have half a dozen household devices that use the internet, both wired and wireless. Two devices, one wired, one wireless, have connection problems and none others do. These 2 have Win8. Wired connection loses every 40-200 seconds and is out for less than 1 second. The delay is like jboots vs tboots - there is a difference and that delay kills. The wireless device forces the user to completely reenter network passwords and etc.
4) Can the 'app store' green box be any less user friendly? Where is the search? Why is it stretched out across multiple screens and not just condensed to one with maybe a menu on the left for things that are hidden.
5) Speaking of content stretched over several screens, which I figure is this "ribbon" you guys are talking about, I can understand one section of content shown one at a time. It's inefficient, but I understand it. What I'm getting is two sections with voids between them and a half of a third section I have to scroll to see. With the "Travel" box, for example, there is a massive picture with some descriptions on the right, but every one of them is cut off so you cannot actually utilize them without scrolling.
6) f' scrolling.
Edit: I've been crawling through the pages in this thread to see what others are doing: @Jeydax - Those 'easy' to install programs that fix all the problems are only good if they are known about. Before reading this thread, I hadn't heard of any of the apps mentioned in this thread. 'Simply Googling apps to install to fix programs' is an anxiety inducing process because you'll never know what you're going to get. The program might be trial only, or have hidden fees. It might be a trojan or virus. A scam? Googling reviews for random apps is just as bad, pages of noise that don't really say anything or perhaps provide misinformation. It's a tiring process that takes much longer than 15 seconds.
