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The future of MS Windows
pwhodges:
So to make Windows 8 behave like Windows 7 takes the installation of a single program. In return you are using the current version with the advantages of improved kernel performance and other changes.
Now, given that, the difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8 is in practice less than the difference between different Linux distributions... and Linuxes vary more under the skin than Windows versions as well (systemd/init; httpd/apache; ipchains/iptables/firewalld - just differences I've been dealing with this week already)...
The argument for Linux sure isn't for those who don't know what the Windows Control Panel is! Start8 or StartIsBack will do them fine.
Masterpiece:
Gareth, I agree! I just don't trust programs that fuss with system settings if you can do it on your own. And I was offering help.
Masterpiece:
Going to offer, I mean.
Stoon:
I gave up on Windows 8.1. I couldn't get it to look or behave how I like no matter how I tweaked the settings.
With Linux Mint, it took me only a few minutes, the very first time I installed it. And that's me being a neophyte knowing nothing about Linux. And Linux Mint just gets better every update.
hedgie:
Well, to be fair, Microsoft isn't alone in interface clusterfucks. I certainly found Win8 unusable (couldn't even find the control panel for 10 minutes). But I felt the same way about Unity and Gnome3 over in OSS land. Too drastic a change in user experience, and at the very least, they'll complain and find work-arounds, if not desert you entirely. MS found this out with Win8 and trying to unify the experience across portable devices and desktops/laptops.
I think that the longer one sticks with a certain way of doing things, the more frustrating that moving to a new interface is. And like it or not, most people who use computers have at least a passing familiarity with Windows, through work, education, or whatever. I have seen people have difficulty going from Windows to Apple than the other way around.
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