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Originally Posted by nekrosoft13
simply horrible, windows with social bs integration, great, just ****ing great, when they finish the setup it will probably ask your for facebook acount.
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I pretty much agree with this. I just tried windows 8 in a VM and so far I really don't like it from a UI perspective. You have to register a live id account, and then the start menu is removed and replaced with metro, and then metro is littered with social media junk.
Why can't I just have a regular start menu? I really don't like how when I want to launch another program, I have to completely cover up my desktop, not only that but metro is really cumbersome compared to the nice compact classic start menu, and I find it really annoying that you can't manipulate any system settings without metro active.
From a technical perspective
windows 8 is great though. A fresh install uses only 10GB, and even in a VM it boots
fast, not to mention has a very tiny memory footprint, and some apps, such as the task manager, have been greatly improved.
Also, I don't know if anybody else has noticed, but copying files is FAST. MS has really optimized the crap out of how the OS buffers data for file copying, it even does a better job than linux does now. Not only that, but it has an option where you can see the transfer rate in real-time (no more highly inaccurate estimations that wildly vary.) It takes literally
1.5 seconds to copy a gigabyte file on my setup, and again, that is within a VM which is slower than running on a real system.
That would be awesome if these increased disk I/O speeds would affect games as well.