windows 8.1 still sucks

trying real hard to derail this thread

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4/5 gold boxes
i feel its an honest critique

honestly, if you need any proof that the Windows 8 interface is inferior to Windows 7, you're a jackass

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Originally Posted by Plug Drugs

No you didn't; the burden of proof is now on you to prove that Windows 8 is more efficient.
You've already admitted that getting users accustomed to a GUI separates them from the DOS-esque level of intelligence a user has about their operating system, now you have to explain to us why Windows 8 does this less than Windows 7

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I never said Windows 8 was more efficient, I said quite the opposite. I said it's clunky and badly designed and counterintuitive and that new users are going to have a lot of trouble with it.

I also said that a guy (you) who has no concept of DOS or group policy or active directory who is using about 9% of windows' functionality is essentially the exact same kind of know-nothing rube that you're in here on your high horse screaming about, and that's funny to me and I'm going to rub your face in it endlessly despite camoron's best efforts to make this into a cag thread

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Originally Posted by maks

control panel >> programs and features exactly the same as doing it in windows 7 or vista

in xp control panel >> add/remove programs also very similar

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Can you launch them from there?
Also, how'd you get to control panel without doing something that's counter-intuitive.

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Originally Posted by maks

I never said Windows 8 was more efficient, I said quite the opposite. I said it's clunky and badly designed and counterintuitive and that new users are going to have a lot of trouble with it.

I also said that a guy (you) who has no concept of DOS or group policy or active directory who is using about 9% of windows' functionality is essentially the exact same kind of know-nothing rube that you're in here on your high horse screaming about, and that's funny to me and I'm going to rub your face in it endlessly despite camoron's best efforts to make this into a cag thread

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non sequitur

My name is Mike bushpigbushpigbushpigbushpig, and I installed Steam all by myself (with some help from the guys on the Valve forums) and that makes me an expert on Windows and operating systems in general and I am 100% qualified to say that Windows 8 is going to turn everyone into morons.

I remember when computers were for the hobbiest, back in the good old days when I had to double click install_steam.exe myself. These dipshits with their fancy metro interface aren't sophisticated enough to figure out something so incredibly complicated.

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Originally Posted by Plug Drugs

Can you launch them from there?
Also, how'd you get to control panel without doing something that's counter-intuitive.

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winkey+r, control.exe

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Originally Posted by Plug Drugs

honestly, if you need any proof that the Windows 8 interface is inferior to Windows 7, you're a jackass

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honestly if you need any proof that the new launcher is exactly the start menu but bigger, you're a jackass

come cheer up my lads tis to glory we steer

i can do anything you can do in DOS if i have to or want to, and i didn't need to spend a few decades learning how, is that what makes you upset?

to find something new in this wonderful year

to honor we call you as freemen not slaves

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Originally Posted by maks

honestly if you need any proof that the new launcher is exactly the start menu but bigger, you're a jackass

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more steps involved in doing something = less efficiency

hitting the rumchata a bit early, fag.

for who are so free as the sons of the waves?

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Originally Posted by GulDucat

hitting the rumchata a bit early, fag.

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lol yeh hey ok

keep calling me a fag, hag

Jesus christ, you really are drunk right now. lol

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Originally Posted by maks

Neither would you, you googled two solutions and they were both wrong

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i didnt think you'd use the word "append" for adding a line of text to a text file, so i figured you must mean adding the contents of one file to another file -- based on the definition of the word append

nope

I am not drunk even one little bit.

Entering good grammar mode to prove it. You're probably still drunk from last night.

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Originally Posted by Plug Drugs

i can do anything you can do in DOS if i have to or want to, and i didn't need to spend a few decades learning how, is that what makes you upset?

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No, it's that you think you're any better than every other casual user who barely knows where the on/off switch is. You're not. You don't know shit.

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Originally Posted by Plug Drugs

more steps involved in doing something = less efficiency

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Windows 7
Boot Windows
Click the start menu
Click (or hover over) 'all programs'
Click the program you want

Windows 8
Boot windows
Click the program you want

yeah plug drugs was afk for a few minutes... He was desperatly researching through google.

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Originally Posted by Plug Drugs

i didnt think you'd use the word "append" for adding a line of text to a text file, so i figured you must mean adding the contents of one file to another file -- based on the definition of the word append

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That's not actually what it means, though, what it means is what I said. We can add english to the list of things you're no good at I guess.

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Originally Posted by maks

The GUI and the CLI both have their places, and the most effective way to use these machines is to utilize a combination of both. Anyone who only uses the GUI shouldn't go standing up on pedestals pretending to be an authority on how "smart" people use computers. He's a gigantic hypocrite.

"Windows 8 is oversimplified" is a stupid argument. If anything it's more complicated. If you're in the desktop, you have to move your mouse to a special hidden corner to bring up the control panel or shut it down. There's no button, no sign, you're supposed to just know that. One of the main reasons I recommend my customers avoid Windows 8 is because I don't want to bill them a million hours when they're calling me asking how the fuck to do anything. It's not dumbed down, it's not intuitive, it's change for the sake of change it's clunky and it's shit. Plug Drugs knows Win 8 sucks, but he's ass-backwards on the "why?" and he looks like a jackass right now.

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It's over-simplified in the fact that it was designed for a touch-mouse duality, and the nature of a touch device is generally to simplify things

a mouse offers precision and that, from a technical standpoint, means a mouse-based OS is less simple

theres a real battle of wits shpaing up here