I've had Win 8 from release here in sometime in October.
It crashed like 3 times a day and showed the blue screen of death for a while (updates now have fixed this for me but ffs it was frustrating). My fucking laptop came with Win 8 pre-installed, but because it was so new it had Win 7 drivers and I didnt realise until the other day, so I had to update them all. The system files are really disordered, and I had to run a couple maintenance programs to sort it out, and it only helped slightly. All the system messages are really fucking condescending and treats you like a 5 year old ("your battery is low, you might want to plug it in" FUCK YOU LAPTOP. I DONT NEED YOUR SUGGESTIONS OF WHAT I "MIGHT WANT TO DO). It uses contracted words like didn't, and haven't. This annoys me far more than it should, its fucking lazy. It instructs you to "click or tap" on selections, and I know its supposed to be touchscreen compatible but I want it to be able to differentiate between a laptop and a touchscreen. The font they use pisses me off for some reason, like
really pisses me off.
The desktop is absolutely no different and the start menu just seems like a different way to do the exact same thing, for a touchscreen I can understand why (I have a HP Slate with Win 7 on it, the start menus a bit small so I can see how this would help). For non-touchscreens its a bit of a pointless change but meh I have no problem with it.
The apps are a pointless weighted pieces of shit. It has default "apps" to do everything. The only difference between an app and an application is that an app has a bright colour on the start menu and it doesnt run on the desktop (as a result of not running on the desktop, it takes you away from the desktop and it loads independently, which takes ages, is really annoying, and you forget theyre open. The "app switch" keys ALT+TAB dont display them which means the only way to open them is to go into the smart menu every time, which in my experience restarts them and you have to wait for it to open again) and find it want to look at a picture? double click on it and it takes a solid 15 seconds to load up a pointless photo viewing app, when it could just use Windows Photo Viewer application (which
it does have, it just likes being awkward). You can change all the defaults, but its annoying.
If you expect to change any of the settings ever, be prepared to spend
fucking ages going through its seemingly random options. There are like 10 different ways to get into 10 different types of settings.
To be honest I'm probably just being overly negative and a bit pedantic, but I'd stick to Win 7 if i had the choice. I might even downgrade this one at some point (even if i does mean starting new on this laptop)
P.S. OH AND FUCK WINDOWS 8 UPDATES.
I'm sure people are familiar with this warning
on windows 8 you
cannot fucking postpone them. Why take away my fucking postpone button?! All it does it frustrate me because I no longer feel in control of my own laptop.
