windows 8.1 still sucks

[Plug Drugs]

Please explain how making the pretty pictures slightly bigger in Windows 8 dumbs down the interface any more than Windows itself already did before you even started using it.

it makes things like file management more time consuming, and ultimately that discourages people from ever learning anything about their computer, as they're only going to learn what's convenient.

And that doesn't imply that Windows 8 is more convenient; it just means that what little convenience it does provide is only convenient to an extent. Anyone who spends a lot of time on their computer is going to end up wasting time due to efficiency reasons on windows 8 compared to windows 7, assuming they don't change the interface from default

[maks]

it makes things like file management more time consuming, and ultimately that discourages people from ever learning anything about their computer, as they're only going to learn what's convenient.

You mean like how you never learned any DOS commands, right? Because it's more convenient to let trhe pretty pictures hold your hand and stroke your hair

And that doesn't imply that Windows 8 is more convenient; it just means that what little convenience it does provide is only convenient to an extent. Anyone who spends a lot of time on their computer is going to end up wasting time due to efficiency reasons on windows 8 compared to windows 7, assuming they don't change the interface from default

It actually implies that explorer in windows 8 is identical to the one in windows 7 and you've never even seen the OS you're criticizing

[Plug Drugs]

You mean like how you never learned any DOS commands, right? Because it's more convenient to let trhe pretty pictures hold your hand and stroke your hair

I can do things in DOS if I have to, ask your average Windows 8 user if they can do anything in DOS

It actually implies that explorer in windows 8 is identical to the one in windows 7 and you've never even seen the OS you're criticizing

Windows 8 forces you to use the metro interface for various things

[maks]

I can do things in DOS if I have to, ask your average Windows 8 user if they can do anything in DOS

They can google it just as well as you can. Looking shit up != knowing how to use it

Windows 8 forces you to use the metro interface for various things

Like what?

but if you can agree that making those pictures bigger is going to leave the user dumber,

I don't agree with that, I think it's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard and that's why I've spent the last 10 posts ripping on you for saying it

[Plug Drugs]

They can google it just as well as you can. Looking shit up != knowing how to use it

Something tells me if you stick your average person who praises Windows 8 into DOS and tell them to append a line of text to a file like you asked me earlier, they're not going to even know where to begin.

[maks]

Something tells me if you stick your average person who praises Windows 8 into DOS and tell them to append a line of text to a file like you asked me earlier, they're not going to even know where to begin.

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

nerds

[Plug Drugs]

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

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

[Plug Drugs]

Like what?

How do you view all the applications you've installed on your computer?

[always stevey]

after thumbing thru google.

after thumbing thru google.

looking for a new avatar? rofl

cag in the bar last night

star trek humor, skype trolls, epic

star trek humor, skype trolls, epic

i heard cag isnt even a real trekky

[maks]

How do you view all the applications you've installed on your computer?

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

[Plug Drugs]

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

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

thats not the cagtain i know...