Windows8

sladden · #1 June 14th, 2012, 06:43 AM

I just re-installed my Win8 (evaluation copy) back into a laptop.
I tried it once-before. Took one look at it and uninstalled.
Seeing as how Microsoft gave it to me for nothing. I thought I should give it a better try.

Although it has an entirely different desktop and I feel like I am dealing with a politician, as I seem to go all round the world, opening a different program. The different way of doing things makes me feel as though going from Win7 to Win8 makes me feel the way I felt while changing from Windows to Vista.

It seems to run faster than Vista and Win7.
Especially now I have worked out how to lock my most-used programs to the toolbar.
And (so far) it seems to be very stable.

I still have a lot to learn about Win8, but I am wondering if anybody else has tried it yet?

sladden · #2 June 14th, 2012, 10:29 PM

Yes I know all that.
I got my Release Preview from a CD supplied by the PC-User magazine June 2012 release.
I was just wondering if anybody else on Cybertechhelp had tried it, and if so, what do they think of it.
Thank's anyway for your response.

sladden · #3 June 18th, 2012, 08:14 AM

Going through my memory of Microsoft.
I started with Win95 (lot's of head scratching) then win98 (good and stable). Then win2000 (very good and very stable)
WinME turned up next. I liked it and thought that everything was set. I didn't realise that it was just, Microsoft's fat32 warm-up for ntfs Vista.
Although the media kep't telling me that Vista was a terrible distros and nobody liked it. I did like it (maybe ME prepared me for it). I still happily run it on 2 computers and my wife refuses to use anything else.
Then came the gloryfied win7. Other than, refuse to run some of my old programs, I haven't noticed much user-friendly difference from Vista.
Now win8 is coming soon, and the 'free-pre-release is here.
Working my way in the pre-release. There seem's to be a lot non-user-friendly procedures in it (maybe they will fix them in the for-sale-release).
So far though. It seems to me, that, win8 is a distros to prepare customers into wanting something-else that is easier to use. Just like Ubuntu seem to have done with the 12.04 release.

Anyway. Those are my thought's on the subject of Win8.

craisin · #4 June 18th, 2012, 08:59 AM

I am glad I read this thread as I thought NTFS came from Windows NT out of 1995

**Murf** · #5 June 22nd, 2012, 06:09 PM

Actually NTFS started in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1. The important thing to mention is that Windows 9x was able to use only FAT filesystem and Windows NT and Windows 2000 was able to work with both.

craisin · #6 June 23rd, 2012, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Murf

Actually NTFS started in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1. The important thing to mention is that Windows 9x was able to use only FAT filesystem and Windows NT and Windows 2000 was able to work with both.

Sounds right

sladden · #7 June 24th, 2012, 08:55 AM

About ntfs,that was nice to learn. My memories are all about the distros that I used in my sequence of purchase.
I only keep using Windows now, because of my DesignCAD software. So far none of my tries have worked in Linux with v17, 18, and 20.
I think I have a v13 buried somewhere in my study. When I find it, I will try it, and if it works I will be able to switch 100% to linux.

Finding a current user-friendly and stable linux, seems difficult.

I don't find Ubuntu 12.04 user-friendly (to me).

Mint13 seemed good, but after about 3 weeks use. It slowed down, just like Windows does.

Zorin 5.2 looks promising, but it seems unstable.

So I am running UbuntuStudio 12.04 for now, to see what happens.