Win3.1 = utterly fucking useless because all the good stuff was in DOS
95= looked cool, unstable as hell
98= better
98SE= win.
ME= how the fuck do you screw up 98SE so badly with a UI overhaul?
XP= how the fuck do you screw up NT5 so badly?
XP+SP1= woot, stable
XP+SP2= wow, a good O/S
XP+SP3= stopped caring, Vista was out
Vista=fine, except for fucking retards whining it's "heavy" - so was XP at release, relative to PC's of that time you dipshit
7= <3
8= ...........
Sorry, just had to
3.1 really was fucking useless and XP at release was much heavier at the time than Vista was - not to mention infinitely more unstable. Both had the usual driver issues one gets with a new kernel, anyone bringing that up is a retard. The "dipshit" above isn't aimed at you btw, but at every "industry expert" that whined so much about Vista, which really was fine. Better than XP at release anyway.
I'll stick with my Ubuntu for daily use for now, Win8 does look like a massive failure. Need to see whether OS X can work for me as a daily OS at some point, because it would be good having Photoshop without having to reboot to Windows (it doesn't run through Wine and in a VM is quite awkward ). Most of the stuff I use is available for OS X so that's not an issue, it's just that Finder sucks balls and I still don't like the Dock - apart from the obvious UI bloat overall
UI bloat? OS X looks so much more elegant than both this turd and Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro really). It used to looks quite bad, but it is now so much better (started with Leopard and further improvements in each version later).
Compare LibreOffice:
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to Office 2007/2008 (Mac)/2010/2011 (Mac):
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Also, speaking of the Dock, Unity doesn't look much different from it.
How did Microsoft go from Windows Vista/7 to 8? I mean, how is it possible. Did the designers drop on their head?
hmm i must say i like it writing this from the desktop but startmenu?? wth was that good for really? win+x got all the things for which i needed the startmenu. and i like the new metro start menu as well , you got nice litte widgets for apps whats so wrong about seeing who mailed you before you open the actual app? ergonimically its amazing short mousepaths, big icons, i must say iยดm really impressed cause i thought it couldnt get any better than win7. (osx not counted!!) windows 8 is a big step forward and iยดm sure that metro is the way to go for the future, mark my words
the only people who seem to like it are the app developers who can see dollar signs before thier eyes. i can seen eventually if ms goes this route that we will only be able to install ms approved apps in thier locked down os, and will have to jailbreak it to install anything else.
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the only people who seem to like it are the app developers who can see dollar signs before thier eyes. i can seen eventually if ms goes this route that we will only be able to install ms approved apps in thier locked down os, and will have to jailbreak it to install anything else.
This is not possible, as this model can never work with business. And if Apple has a loophole for business to allow for deployment of non-appstore software, MS is not the one to remove it. Windows 8 is horrible, but let's not derp in paranoia.
I just dont want to believe that they will release Win8 desktop version without "Start" and taskbar. Im following Win8 development very vaguely, but isn't MS main goal with Win8 to get it on tablets, where big bucks are now and where they don't have anything to offer ?
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I still think that start menu isn't all that bad. I've pinned literally everything I use regularly, from programs to folders, and I think it works really well as a launcher for those. Pressing the win key and clicking on a tile you need feels quite natural and fast compared to using the jump lists for example. The fact that it automatically switches back to desktop and saves the cursor position also helps. It's probably just me being a MetroDerp and I'm sure there are more efficient ways of doing exactly the same thing on Win7(especially via 3rd party software like RocketDock), but the start menu itself is ok IMO.
The Metro apps are a whole different story though. Their interface is fucking awful and clunky, and the fact that they are fullscreen makes it impossible to multitask(the snap feature is a complete failure). Such useless crap for desktop users. The only good thing about some of them is their ability to display info on the "live tiles" without having to launch them. Using the win key to quickly look at the weather or RAM/CPU usage seems like a good alternative to desktop gadgets.
Aside from the Metro stuff, the desktop experience feels pretty much like "Windows 7.5". There are all these improvements to explorer, file copying, task manager, the built-in support for mounting ISOs, etc. Win8 also uses less RAM, boots really fast and performance seems better overall.
I'll definitely use it instead of Win7 from now on. After all, both are free
UI bloat? OS X looks so much more elegant than both this turd and Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro really). It used to looks quite bad, but it is now so much better (started with Leopard and further improvements in each version later).
Elegant? You mean how you "maximise" a window, yet still lose 3cm of space because there's a massive titlebar that is completely unused?
The global menu in OS X is a great idea, but the execution in Unity is so much better.
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Also, speaking of the Dock, Unity doesn't look much different from it.
I don't use the standard Unity sidebar, I use DockbarX which is almost identical to Win7's taskbar. The dock in OS X is too bloated design wise; it looks and works like crap when you shrink it down to a decent size (default is way too big and autohide is counter productive).
Overall OS X just wastes a lot of screen real estate. What I don't get is how you can call Unity more bloated, because ignoring that it takes a checkbox to disable the bloat you don't like, it certainly isn't more bloated out of the box than OS X. Please give me an example of what you mean, because I don't get the same screen real estate on OS X as I do on Ubuntu or Windows.
It's shit like that which is keeping me from using OS X as a daily OS. Apple don't support it for shit (points at pstops filter failure once again). At least with Windows and Ubuntu you get a hotfix very quickly if something breaks, with Apple you can consider yourself lucky if it happens within 3 months. Wouldn't be such a big problem if everything was easy to patch and recompile, but even that is not always the case.
As an OS it's quite fine, I just don't think a lot of things said about it are true. It's not more elegant everywhere, only some of it is. It's sure as hell not less of a resource hog either, because even Leopard runs like shit on high-end PPC Macs, while Win7 runs just fine on a Centrino M 1.6 w/ 768 MB RAM.
You've turned around quite badly btw Leo, you weren't this supportive of OS X before. Either I'm missing something when I use OS X or you've fallen for Apple
What I don't get is how you can call Unity more bloated, because ignoring that it takes a checkbox to disable the bloat you don't like, it certainly isn't more bloated out of the box than [...]
Not sure how to call it.. bloat or bad coding, bugs or just what the fuck is going on in teh latest and greatest ubuntu 12.04 but it runed like garbage on my toshiba nb550d. garbage! same with gnome3. im ok with simple/basic interfaces as long as they at least run fast?! For what i think the general interpretation of "bloat" is, i couldnt find any to justify the bad performance ?!
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). Most of the stuff I use is available for OS X so that's not an issue, it's just that Finder sucks balls and I still don't like the Dock - apart from the obvious UI bloat overall 
writing this from the desktop but startmenu?? wth was that good for really? win+x got all the things for which i needed the startmenu. and i like the new metro start menu as well , you got nice litte widgets for apps whats so wrong about seeing who mailed you before you open the actual app? ergonimically its amazing short mousepaths, big icons, i must say iยดm really impressed cause i thought it couldnt get any better than win7. (osx not counted!!) windows 8 is a big step forward and iยดm sure that metro is the way to go for the future, mark my words 
Knowing Brad Wardell, he'll charge 30$ for that piece of shit 
