At least more software developers are releasing proper games for Linux

Just tacked onto this post but not replying in particular.... The media have a lot to explain about this recent "u-turn" nonsense they have been talking about... the amount of people that have been talking about it to me at work it incredible, naturally, they have all been told that the articles are misguided and untrue and they will be getting Windows 8 on their machines regardless.

Good for them. My wife has just got a new laptop and it came with Windows 8. After 5 minutes showing how it worked she now loves it. She says its faster than her old windows 7 64 bit machine and easier to use. I just put on Classic Start Menu but most of the time she stays in the Start screen. It's silly complaining about Windows 8 until you have used it for a while and then it will become second nature. Most fo the time it seems the same old arguments used when changing form windows 3 to windows 95 then to windows xp then to windows 7 etc. Learn to adapt and change if you want to survive.

In reply to a post by MrTAToad2:

At least more software developers are releasing proper games for Linux

Are they? it is good if they are, but it is not games I am interested in.

In reply to a post by cavillas:

Good for them. My wife has just got a new laptop and it came with Windows 8. After 5 minutes showing how it worked she now loves it. She says its faster than her old windows 7 64 bit machine and easier to use. I just put on Classic Start Menu but most of the time she stays in the Start screen. It's silly complaining about Windows 8 until you have used it for a while and then it will become second nature. Most fo the time it seems the same old arguments used when changing form windows 3 to windows 95 then to windows xp then to windows 7 etc. Learn to adapt and change if you want to survive.

If you stay in the start screen, then you are not using the full features of windows, in fact if you stay int he start screen then you may as well got for something that runs windows RT.

Of cause it is faster, because Metro have such a simple interface. I do wonder what people find in the Metro UI to stay in it.


I tried Metro and to be honest the only tile I used was the desktop tile, none of the others was useful for what I wanted to do. i don't want to use internet Explorer, I don't want use Hotmail or outlook as it is called now.

I need to be on the desktop to write a letter with Libre office, I need to be on the desktop to edit videos, I need to be on the desktop to send emails, I need to be on the desktop to use photoshop, I need to be on the desktop to watch videos and listen to music in the application I want to use, not what MS think I should use. So no point in using the Metro UI

sure not eveyone is the same, but more than 4 million people have downloaded some sort of start menu so they don't have to see the metro UI.

Are they? it is good if they are, but it is not games I am interested in.

That's a shame!

Why should we adapt just because someone else thinks we should?

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Why should we adapt just because someone else thinks we should?

Just think if those monkeys had the same outlook we would never have got where we are today But then maybe that would be better.

There is change for change's sake and change for necessity. The former is not good; the latter is very good.

Yey! Microsoft confirmed it will be free and available through the App Store...