Did people really like Windows 8?

Basement Dwelling Dork

Basement Dwelling Dork

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People are nostalgic (or being hipsters) over Windows 98, XP, and 7 era. Yet I have never ever heard anybody mention anything about Windows 8.
I think I remember it being Microsoft's attempt at trying to get an own over Apple but fucking it up because the Microsoft genuises were sniffing glue or something.
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Is there anyone on here that really misses that era? Surely there are Kiwis that have some good things to say about using the windows phone and windows 8?
 
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Windows Phone was great and if it actually had app support could have legitimately taken over iOS, but it didn't translate to desktop at all via 8. I think I used it for about 15 minutes before I finally had enough and "downgraded" back to 7.

I really did love Windows Phone though. The hardware was great, too. I was rocking this bad boy for a while:

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Literally never used it, went from 7 to 10. People despised 8 but some seemed to tolerate 8.1 once you got rid of all that tablet bullshit.
 
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8 is somehow even worse than 11. The compact effectiveness of the file explorer was raped by giant fluorescent neon tiles. Computers aren't mobile devices for a reason. Fuck the goddam Saar jeets that came up with that heaping pile of shit. Sickened that I even have to glance at a tile in my start menu before jettisoning it into the void. WinAerotweaker rapes.
 
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I never used it. My windows 7 install decided it wanted to eat up the master boot record one day so I rescued it with a linux distro installed across four USB flash drives and wiped that virus of an os from my computer and haven't looked back.

One of my wife's laptops came with windows 8 though. She hated it and got confused by it regularly. She got a windows 10 update pretty soon after buying it though and she's been fine with that ever since.
 
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The tiles look good. Windows 8 has the best UI and I honestly wish that the tiles stayed, but as widgets instead of being in a seperate menu. And that's not even talking about Windows Phone.
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I want to tell you to kill yourself, but maybe it was the best UI for touch screens, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

The combination of Windows being the de facto OS for cheaper normies and the fact that cheaper normies often don't have cutting edge technology meant a lot of people were stuck with that shit on regular desktops.

And the restrictions it had assuming you were using a budget touchscreen device didn't turn off even if you were using a perfectly functional desktop. If you tabbed out of something it was functionally the same as shutting it off entirely. What the hell. And it still did that even if you used the unofficial UI patcher.
 
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Personal preference yes, not out of any qualitative reason. I am in the minority of people that liked XP and Vista (sorta) but never really liked 7. There was just something about it. Probably the art style.
 
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grimacefetishist said:
but maybe it was the best UI for touch screens,
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The main issues for it on desktop was
1. Lack of cutomization. The Tiles were too big, and horizontal scrolling was forced (was only an issue if you had a mouse that was bad at horizontal scrolling).
2. Terrible multitasking. Everything gets forced into full screen, and you can only have 2 things open at once.
If both of these issues were fixed than I could replace my home screen with the start screen at least 90% of the time. Plus, it would be perfect for other stuff, like using it as a media/game player for a TV.
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If you tabbed out of something it was functionally the same as shutting it off entirely.
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That sounds like absolute hell, but I didn't notice it at the time because I pretty much just browsed the web, watched a couple of DVDs, and download a couple of games.
 
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卐卐卐 said:
Tiles fixed is just a regular desktop
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Regular desktops don't have neat folders or live tiles, suck to use with anything but a keyboard and mouse, don't offer any scrolling at all, and look way uglier and clunkier than what I am talking about.
I forgot about live tiles. I would to anything for an XMplay live tile.
 
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⚞⛇⚟ said:
Regular desktops don't have neat folders or live tiles, suck to use with anything but a keyboard and mouse, don't offer any scrolling at all, and look way uglier and clunkier than what I am talking about.
I forgot about live tiles. I would to anything for an XMplay live tile.
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Gonna need more info on what you mean by folders and scrolling in a way that windows 7 lacked them. I don't know what live tiles are either. I don't hate new things I just also enjoyed the old thing and wasn't prepared for the new things.
 
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SandyCat said:
At least it wasn't Vista
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At least vistas at the point its so old people barely remember how shit it was and just remember the good memories around it especially that era of the net and that sweet sweet frutiger aero. It was dog shit but ive seen many people nostalgic for it, I honestly can't see anyone being nostalgic for windows 8.
 
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