windows 8.1 still sucks

whats peculiar is your taskbar is sharper and crisper than anything else on the screen

oh if you can actually output sound through a graphics card well I hate to break it to ya but you couldn't pay me to do that because you see I enjoy having speakers that aren't imbedded into a tv and stuff see the back of my computer you've got the dvi wire that goes to my monitor that doesn't have any speakers built in because that's stupid, and then another wire going to my speakers, from my sound card, because why the fuck ugh man what is wrong with you people

lol are you fuckign retarded, you dont have to use your TV as your sound source but since my TV is like 4 feet away from my computer I use it when i watch netflix or whatever on it since it projects the sound from the source of the video rather than from 4 feet to the right of it which is awk as fuck

i had a feeling steveyos would come in here to talk about 'classic shell' after he posted that pic of his desktop. too fucking funny. thats definitely what i want to look at when im using my computer, a little cartoon shell in the corner like my OS is the little mermaid OS. when you click the shell does sebastian come out and play under the sea in MIDI? you 'poor unforuntate soul' steveyos (lol, reference from LITTLE MERMAID). for some reason you just go fucking nuts every time theres a new operating system, remember when you were busting your nut over how amazing windows 7 was, and then you were like 'windows 7 sucks' a week later only go juggle from ubuntu to windows 7 about 30 times? i guess now youve finally found the perfect OS, one that you have to install disney software to make it even remotely function properly.

didnt have to install anything, windows 8 works fine, start menu is old as fuck and unnecessary, i can find whatever i need without any added effort
but then im a power user

[maks]

start menu is old as fuck and unnecessary

I agree, but the metro interface is just a less organized start menu with gigantic fisher price buttons that you have to grab with your mouse and drag around. Search i the most efficient way to launch programs these days, the bar at the bottom of 7's start menu was glorious, sure they stole it from osx but who cares it works great. One click, then type the first 3 letters of a program or control panel setting, document etc and it pops up right there in front of you.

Also the 'fullscreen by default' philosophy for 8-specific applications is fucking retarded. Also a task bar is essential on something like a Windows machine which will run out of RAM and run like shit if you leave everything running all the time.

Windows 8's new interface should have been a taskbar with a search box embedded in it.

[maks]

For what it's worth Server 2012 defaults to the desktop but if you click where the start menu is supposed to be it brings up the server manager instead of anything useful, and I miss the notification area.

[steveyos]

whats peculiar is your taskbar is sharper and crisper than anything else on the screen

I have 150% sizing on and windows for some reason does a terrible job at it so yeah in order to have text not be the size of an atom I gotta have it well actually it looks fine

even now though this text isn't even larger than a pen turned sideways and chrome is at default zoom I mean seriously how fucking small do faggots need their text and everything nowadays this trend has to stop what does everyone now actually literally sit with their eyes pressed against their monitors what teh fuck for real

lol are you fuckign retarded, you dont have to use your TV as your sound source but since my TV is like 4 feet away from my computer I use it when i watch netflix or whatever on it since it projects the sound from the source of the video rather than from 4 feet to the right of it which is awk as fuck

well not everyone can afford $10,000 televisions with good speakers ok?

I agree, but the metro interface is just a less organized start menu with gigantic fisher price buttons that you have to grab with your mouse and drag around. Search i the most efficient way to launch programs these days, the bar at the bottom of 7's start menu was glorious, sure they stole it from osx but who cares it works great. One click, then type the first 3 letters of a program or control panel setting, document etc and it pops up right there in front of you.

Also the 'fullscreen by default' philosophy for 8-specific applications is fucking retarded. Also a task bar is essential on something like a Windows machine which will run out of RAM and run like shit if you leave everything running all the time.

Windows 8's new interface should have been a taskbar with a search box embedded in it.

my windows 8 is nothing like that is behaves exactly like windows 7 except it's even faster even though I haven't changed a single part on this pre-vista desktop I built

windows 8 fucking rule, I have 7 I have vista I have ubuntu I have everything and I seriously threw it all at garbage

you should to abandon your influences

oh and with classic shell not only do I get the best start menu ever I neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr have to see metro and all the explorer windows you can customize to be like XP which had all the fancy stuff but I only installed the start menu because I don't need explorer to have anything since second life's shortcut is right on the desktop, which my pc boots to right away it's not like it starts at metro on boot either

[steveyos]

god damn you really fuck yourself over when you're a nerd you are missing out on pure raw speed you really are

[Plug Drugs]

Fuckrosoft Winshit 8

[Plug Drugs]

once i need a fresh install i think i'm going with a windows 7 gui on ubuntu

[steveyos]

plug drugs obviously knows what he's talking about he's very smart his example of the perfect girl? lisa, so you know he's gonna choose the best OS too

[Plug Drugs]

[steveyos]

no really windows 8 is amazing and if you have problems with it it's not windows 8 it's you

[steveyos]

two monitors running tons of stuff on a desktop with no newer parts than 2008 when they were considered slightly above mid-range everything blazing fast no problems at all why am I better at this stuff than everyone here but everyone thinks I"m the dumbest person hmmmmmmmm hmmmm kinda weird how that works

I agree, but the metro interface is just a less organized start menu with gigantic fisher price buttons that you have to grab with your mouse and drag around. Search i the most efficient way to launch programs these days, the bar at the bottom of 7's start menu was glorious, sure they stole it from osx but who cares it works great. One click, then type the first 3 letters of a program or control panel setting, document etc and it pops up right there in front of you.

Also the 'fullscreen by default' philosophy for 8-specific applications is fucking retarded. Also a task bar is essential on something like a Windows machine which will run out of RAM and run like shit if you leave everything running all the time.

Windows 8's new interface should have been a taskbar with a search box embedded in it.

ya the interface fuckin sucks, just dont use it, thats my solution

everything else though is > windows 7

well not everyone can afford $10,000 televisions with good speakers ok?

Right Click Speakers > Playback Devices > Choose sound source and click Set Default

[steveyos]

but I don't want to

[steveyos]

my interface is exactly teh same as 7/vista/xp etc if there's any differences I'm not seeing them this is exactly the same as using any previous windows except faster

[maks]

oh and with classic shell not only do I get the best start menu ever I neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr have to see metro and all the explorer windows you can customize to be like XP which had all the fancy stuff but I only installed the start menu because I don't need explorer to have anything since second life's shortcut is right on the desktop, which my pc boots to right away it's not like it starts at metro on boot either

I don't want the same interface as Windows 7. I want nothing but a taskbar or dock with a search bar on it. I'm sure it can be done in 8, but it's not really worth it because in the end I'd still be running fucking windows.

[maks]

ya the interface fuckin sucks, just dont use it, thats my solution

everything else though is > windows 7

I don't see any really compelling reason to upgrade, I really only use Win 7 for gaming and considering that 8 is essentially the new Vista it would be a waste of time learning all the ins and outs when they're going to be rushing win 9 to market in a year or two

[always stevey]

ooohh lol technical talk...

*marks98 thread read*

I don't see any really compelling reason to upgrade, I really only use Win 7 for gaming and considering that 8 is essentially the new Vista it would be a waste of time learning all the ins and outs when they're going to be rushing win 9 to market in a year or two

win 8 doesnt deserve that reputation

anwyays i got it for free through MSDNAA

[maks]

I have a crack that works on everything from win 7 to server 2012 and all the offices and I think maybe visual studio too

[macpro]

[maks]

fuck off marco this thread is about windows 8

[macpro]

lol fuck your cracks.

[maks]

lol fuck your cracks.

enjoy your dell optiplex that came with win 7 home premium installed you fucking fossil

[always stevey]

enjoy your dell optiplex that came with win 7 home premium installed you fucking fossil

lmao

dude youre gettin a dell

[macpro]

says i'm getting a dell. woot.

what do you mean by win8 being faster becausE when i use win7 and open program files its p fast