Windows 8

spronk_sl said:

depends if you play games or not, lots of people have benchmarked things like BF4 as 15-30% faster under Win8.1 with a lot less lag spikes. Nvidia drivers etc are all optimized better under Win8.1. Under the hood Win8.1 does a lot of stuff better, especially with things like SSD drives and UEFI booting. Its all of course balanced by shitty metro, but honestly with classic whatever config and Start8 (or pokki) I don't see a difference at all between my 8.1 and 7 in terms of day to day use. Sometimes you get that goddamn Metro full screen window and you rage at your PC for a few seconds, but life goes on.

Whats hilarious is my parents PC has win8 too (new PC this fall) and for a week my dad literally would restart the computer every time he got trapped in the metro screen, since he didn't know how to get out of it. Fortunately with 8.1, if you choose the go-away-metro stuff you rarely see it anymore.

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Thanks for this post! I just ordered one of them Lenovo gaming laptops with Win8 on it, and had only heard the bad things about the UI so far, so it's nice to hear that there are good reasons to give 8 an honest try instead of reverting to 7 straight out of the box.

So... how much of the first 10 pages of this thread are still useful info? Would it be worth the time/effort to go back and read any of that? I've been a full-time Linux user since early 2010 after I tried Win7 for about a month, so I consider myself pretty much total Windows noob/born again virgin at this point.

If your Lenovo laptop has a touch screen, Windows 8 is pretty friggin awesome and downgrading to 7 would make no sense at all. The lack of touch on my MacBook Pro has become consistently frustrating in comparison, especially when some things scream for touch (like the launchpad).

If you don't have touch, Windows 8 is better than 7 (imo) but it takes a bit more to appreciate the differences. Once you learn the new windows key shortcuts and get comfortable with opening stuff by typing instead of the significantly slower method of trying to click on it then you really start to appreciate Win8. Rather than moving a mouse around and hunting through menus, I can open any application in around 1 second with: Windows key -> first 2-3 letters -> enter key. Windows Key + x is especially nice for control panel type stuff. For example, to get to the device manager I can just hit Windows Key + X -> M and be there in under a second rather than the old method of start menu -> control panel -> whatever the fuck you used to do in Win7.

I also recommend making your Metro background match your desktop background to make switching between the two less jarring.

It is under personalize, it's the bottom right option.

Is it possible to have collapsing folders on the all Apps screen that either expand with a click or hover? For example, I have a "Office Apps" folder, inside of which is a "Libre Office" folder the contents of which are always shown on the Apps screen. Or default the rarely used "Windows ..." folders to a collapsed state to save screen real-estate. I'd like to get the Apps screen to one screen and in general just make it more manageable.

If it's not something you use often just hide it and use the search to find it when you need it. Way faster than searching for the right icon.

anyone using a cracked version of win8 off IPT? getting my new PC and wanna run win 8 instead of 7.

I wouldn't trust a cracked os.

Kedwyn_sl said:

I wouldn't trust a cracked os.

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Why ive been using cracked OS since xp, i dont think ive ever run into a problem other than the annoyance of reformatting.

so if i was going to purchase win 8, would i go pro or?? i know nothing at all about windows 8 ive just heard its alot better for memory management or something, and if you can get over the changes it runs faster overall, any thoughts?

ill have a ssd, but only for games then a regular drive for other shit, is there really no performance gain? should i just stick to windows 7?

alright ill stick to win 7, wish i remembered what version the one i have now was on ipt its worked flawless even updates.

Mist_sl said:

Windows 8 is worth it if you're using a decent SSD for your system drive. Otherwise not really worth it.

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False. Windows 8 is a superior OS over Windows 7. Period. It doesn't matter if you have an SSD or not. If you dislike the "Metro" interface and prefer the taskbar you just go toNinite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Onceand install Classic Start.

I'd be interested in why people still think 8 is worse than 7.