Is win 8 any good ?

[Punk]

One word: NO

Little advice since you're new: read previous posts.

Let's just pretend you're right, why do you say that it is bad? What experience do you have with it?

Now let's pretend you're wrong (you are), let me tell you why it is good:
While Metro would annoy desktop users, win 8 runs faster and better than win 7. I have tried both OS on the same machine, actually upgraded a win 7 to a Win 8 pro (then 8.1) and since 8.1 came out, all the bugs that I had seen on 8 have disappeared. Actually 8.1 fixed that much that my GF's laptop running win 8 was becoming a nightmare for her while using a few softwares. I upgraded it to 8.1 and everyhting runs smooth now.

Now here is a little advice for your future on CF:

1. Explain your answer
2. Don't follow the trend but give your experience on the question
3. read previous answers (you would have seen that most people are saying it is good, that should be a hint that maybe you should look further into the question

Peace Love and Metal

 

[spirit]

To be fair Ben, whilst I agree that he should have maybe elaborated a bit on why he doesn't like Windows 8, this thread is just asking for opinions. Just because you and I and the majority of people who posted in this thread like Windows 8 doesn't mean that everybody is going to. There are of course some people who detest Windows 8. It's one of those 'marmite' OSes - Vista being another.

Remember too that everybody is running this OS on different hardware and will therefore have different experiences with it. Early on last year I was very much in the 'I don't like using Windows 8' camp because my AMD Catalyst Drivers weren't playing nicely with it. Being graphics drivers it was a pretty major thing. Once those drivers were updated, I started to like the OS a lot more because using it on my system was a much better experience. He may have had some similar hardware/software issues with it.

 

[Punk]

To be fair Ben, whilst I agree that he should have maybe elaborated a bit on why he doesn't like Windows 8, this thread is just asking for opinions. Just because you and I and the majority of people who posted in this thread like Windows 8 doesn't mean that everybody is going to. There are of course some people who detest Windows 8. It's one of those 'marmite' OSes - Vista being another.

Remember too that everybody is running this OS on different hardware and will therefore have different experiences with it. Early on last year I was very much in the 'I don't like using Windows 8' camp because my AMD Catalyst Drivers weren't playing nicely with it. Being graphics drivers it was a pretty major thing. Once those drivers were updated, I started to like the OS a lot more because using it on my system was a much better experience. He may have had some similar hardware/software issues with it.

That's only a small part of my complain, the main thing being the fact that he answered "no" without any explanation, like he didn't need any ("one word"). I have said it must be based on experience, then maybe he should give his, and we might agree that for him, it wasn't good one. Most people are happy with 8.1 now.

 

[StrangleHold]

I put 8.1 on all my new builds. I have a couple copies of 8 myself, but I run 7 Ultimate on mine. Have run both 8/8.1, but for some reason I keep coming back to 7. Have two other computers with 8.1. Other then a benchmark, I cant really feel any speed difference. Think most of it is comfort and it doesn't add anything that's worth me fixing it to my likes.

To me its kinda like the dance they did with Vista before 7 came out. 8.1 is close (still not quite) to what 8 should have been If microshaft gets it together, sounds like 9 might be the next 7.

But if your doing a new build I would put 8.1 on it.

 

[spirit]

That's only a small part of my complain, the main thing being the fact that he answered "no" without any explanation, like he didn't need any ("one word"). I have said it must be based on experience, then maybe he should give his, and we might agree that for him, it wasn't good one. Most people are happy with 8.1 now.

I agreed with you that he needed to elaborate on why he doesn't like it, and yes just answering 'no' without any explanation is pointless, but you can't just assume that because most people are happy with it that he is going to be too.

But yeah, it would be good to know why he doesn't like it.

 

[Punk]

I agreed with you that he needed to elaborate on why he doesn't like it, and yes just answering 'no' without any explanation is pointless, but you can't just assume that because most people are happy with it that he is going to be too.

But yeah, it would be good to know why he doesn't like it.

Agreed too

 

[Jiniix]

I'm the kind of guy that thinks you can't talk smack about something unless you've actually tried it. I was a bit of bandwagon bash Windows 8.1 (never touched 8.0). So I installed it and used it for 3-4 months (probably on average 3-5 hours a day).
I hate it so much. It's the worst OS I've ever seen from Microsoft if you have more than one monitor. I spent more than a few hours looking through all sorts of guides to find the small tweaks that would make it worth it.
But after 4 months when I had to go from AMD to NVIDIA driver, I just reinstalled back to 7. And I don't regret it for one second.
That said, there are of course many things that are better than Windows 7. The native copying and Task Manager as an example. But I use TeraCopy anyway (highly recommend it) and rarely use the task manager.

 

[beers]

Eh, kind of going along with some of the posts but since you have keys for both you can install both and determine which you like more

Once you get used to working around the quirks of 8 then they're really about the same experience.

I was really excited for the start button that had metro tiles on it, it seemed to be the best blend and advancement of the interface but apparently it got axed for the next update