Windows 8 Consumer Preview

[MagGnome]

That Dell monitor is nice. If I had an extra $330 to spend (ha!) I'd consider grabbing something like that for Windows 8.

[Slack3r78]

Originally Posted by Panthera

Metro's just a better start menu. It doesn't really affect your desktop experience that much.

Except the part where Metro is an inconsistent piece of shit. I'm the guy who genuinely liked OS X, GNOME 2, Unity, and even Vista from the outset. I like the improvements to Explorer in W8, but after a couple of weeks daily use at work, the rest of it is fucking awful.

EDIT:

I'm also absolutely dreading having to support this for end users. The entire UI has shifted to a more contextual interface, which is poison when you're dealing with people that just want to get things done and don't care about computers. Discoverability in W8 is a complete fucking joke.Things are contextualized and nested to an absurd degree.

[Slack3r78]

Just an example:

Press WIN on the keyboard.

Now type "Printer." Notice that the search field doesn't appear until after you begin typing.

Your result will be "No apps match your search." Now you have to explicitly tell it you're looking for something in Settings.

Now, let's say there was a typo and you want to clear the field. You can hit escape, and it'll do so. But say you accidentally tap escape twice instead of once. This both clears the search field and hides the sidebar. You're left with a blue screen with the text "Settings" at the top, and no obvious way to get out of it. If you throw your mouse cursor at the right edge of the screen where the sidebar was, nothing happens. If you happen to catch the bottom right corner, you'll get the search/start/settings/etc menu, but not the sidebar that had been in that screen space.

And this isn't even touching on the random intermingling of Metro settings panels and traditional control panel UIs.

This thing is just a complete disaster from my use so far.

[AntonThaGreat]

Disaster is damn right.

I've now completely migrated to Ubuntu and I'm staying here maybe until Service Pack 1 comes out, maybe even until Win9.

I learned how to setup Win7 on a Virtual machine, so my Adobe Master Suite needs are fulfilled there and I've been getting pretty decent with Wine. Played and beat The Walking Dead on it just yesterday, worked flawlessly.

As Slack3r78 mentioned, there's a lot of usability issues that they need to iron out with Win8. What I'm really enjoying about Linux so far is that if I don't like the way something functions, I can usually change it relatively effortlessly, not so with Windows.

[civil_dead]

Originally Posted by AntonThaGreat

I learned how to setup Win7 on a Virtual machine, so my Adobe Master Suite needs are fulfilled there and I've been getting pretty decent with Wine.

I'm curious, did you try Adobe programs with Metro? Which version?

I use a Mac for my main workstation but my portable solution is still a W7 laptop and probably will be for another year or so. I'm running Adobe V6 on both machines at the moment and would like to upgrade to Metro but only if it plays nice with Adobe V6 stuff. I haven't checked anywhere to see if it's been okay in the previews but saw your post and thought I'd ask.



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[muddi900]

All old apps work in desktop mode, metro just comes into play if you press the win button.

[Slack3r78]

Originally Posted by muddi900

All old apps work in desktop mode, metro just comes into play if you press the win button.

Or eventually as apps are rewritten to target Metro. I seriously doubt that's going to happen with the Adobe Creative Suite any time soon, though.

[AntonThaGreat]

Adobe CS6 works just fine with Windows 8, civil. Try out Win8 Release Preview in a virtual machine before you upgrade though. It's free, and will only take an hour of your time.

[J Arcane]

I just want real specs and battery tests for the Transformer Book.

[Narradisall]

I could have sworn I recall reading on this site how everyone was raving over Win 8.

I'm not buying a new PC yet, so I've not bothered checking into it, but someoen was showing me the beta on their laptop today and it looked a bit, screwy, and they've said it's a nightmare to navigate.

I guess MS are going with their, good followed by bad, followed by good approach to OS's.