Saturday, June 18, 2011
Windows 8
I kinda like it, for what it's intended to be used for anyway, and being forgiving, for it being in the rough-and-ready stages. It's a hell of a lot better looking than what's going on with Gnome3 and Ubuntu Unity, that's for sure. But lets be honest here about Windows8: This is just Microsoft's version of Android, so I'm not surprised I'm more accepting of the "new" interface paradigm that I might have originally expected myself to be. I also like the look of Julie Larson-Green, but that's for a whole other post.
So that's how everything seems to be going with things these days. The same touchscreen OS for everything. Ubuntu merging it's Desktop and Netbook versions together into "Unity", Windows with it's "Android thing". Microsoft might as well use it to kill off Windows Mobile. As Green said in the video, it's all about the merging of shite together. Well she said it better than that. The lines of work-home-mobile devices and interactions are blurring in todays world. But does that kind of cross-platform-ability work? Might they attempt to bulldoze their way onto the mobile market by making an OS that looks seemless on whatever you run it on? Can Microsoft really take on an OS that already has the majority share of the mobile device market, and one that is FREE?
I don't know what I give a fuck for. I'm still using Windows XP, and more often than not, I'm on Linux distro now, and I even recently installed Windows 98 on a machine to work with legacy hardware. As for mobile devices, it's Android all the way. So Windows 8? Great, knock yourselves out. And Mac OS "Lion"? Selling it at $29.99 only goes to prove that Apple will eventually give up on software completely and focus on highly-profitable over-priced hardware. I'm surprised they aren't giving the OS away for free. Mark my words, Apple Mac's will be running Windows as standard in the near future. "They'd never do that" ye say. Ye also said Intel chips were the work of the devil. It's all about what brings the best profit.
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I don't know about Windows 8. For mobile or handheld devices yes, but for desktop? They are taking away the start menu. I'm scared. Seriously. I mean I am running win7, have for some time now. This stuff honestly freaks me out really bad. I got SO mad when I read about windows 8. The new Gnome and Unity flustered me even *more*. I'm just not a big fan of these new UI changes. It's like everyone is focusing on cool and pretty but not FUNCTIONALITY and USEABILITY. Ok sorry about the caps there.
ReplyDeleteYou have an interesting blog here.
Oh I was going to mention... In response to Win98 have you tried any of the lightweight distros for your legacy systems?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the TinyMe dev guy is may be considering LinuxMint as well. I ran that distro back when it was an offshoot of PClinuxOS. It worked awesome back then on some old laptops we refurbed and gave away!!! I haven't tried it since the distro changed though.
TinyMe on Distro Watch
TinyMe Hibernation Thread
There's also one called "puppy" which I haven't tried out for some time. That one is a bit more nerdy, but very lightweight!
I think I miss distro hopping, lol! :)
I recently upgraded the ram in most of my old machines to 512mb so I'm able to run xubuntu on them without a problem. I still have a few with 64MB which I may use to mess around with smaller distros when I get the time.
ReplyDeleteAs for Windows8: I had a minor epiphany while using the developers version of it a few months back, which I mentioned briefly on Google+. For the last few years I have stopped clicking on the Start button in Windows and now I've gotten to a stage where I don't click it at all! I have no reason to. All my shortcuts are either on the desktop or Quicklaunch bar. The only time I would find myself clicking Start is for the Run box or to shutdown the computer. I think if I do ever switch to Windows8 I might never even see the "Tiles"!
Indecently, having used Win8 for a while with keyboard and mouse, I found that I do actually like it. I think it makes more sense as an interface than Unity anyway. The Windows8 future doesn't worry me personally anymore, but it's still one hell of a gamble by Microsoft.