WIFIM101
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| 03 Mar 2013 11:53 AM |
Back in 2007, I spent days working with operating systems. I didn't just use the OS for an hour or two, no, I had to sit there and figure out if it could be used from day to day. I would even write the articles to review the operating systems on the computer with that OS.
So anyway, I took a few full-time jobs and now its 2013 and Microsoft released a new version of Windows. I figured, what the heck, why not I do the same thing? Spend 30 days or so with Windows 8, take some notes, show the result, what could go wrong? Well, as it turns out, just about everything. And I'm not just saying that, Windows 8 is unusable. By that, I don't mean: "I personally didn't like it." or: "I wasn't used to the conventions of the OS and preferred the old Windows 7"
No, what I mean by "unusable" is that ultimately the OS is so poorly designed that I couldn't get stuff done. If Windows 8 was a car, the radio would be so loud it would deafen you, the steering wheel wouldn't be there, and for some reason there would be an ejector seat that goes off every 5 minutes. Microsoft says Windows 8 is user-friendly, but I could accurately call this user-hostile.
If an application UI is bad, it ruins the application. BUT, if an operating system UI is bad, it ruins all of the applications. The four C's a good operating system should have are: Control, Conveyance, Continuity, and Context. You have total control, you should be easily able to figure out where to go and what to do, users should expect the same results with similar actions, you should be able to figure out what things do with looking at the at a glance. Even Windows 3.1 followed those rules. I mean sure, it's outdated from today's computers, but even back then they knew what to do. Windows 8 fails on all four. They actually created an OS less user-friendly than DOS.
I'm just going tell you about the first C: I didn't have any control. The thing would just do things. I had not idea how or even if I was causing it to do those things. I'd be trying to look up the solution to a problem on google and then all of the sudden the weather application would pop up. I didn't want the weather to show up, and this wasn't a situation where I knew what I did to cause that and I wouldn't do it again. Say you are typing an essay on how many NINJAS it would take to defeat GODZILLA and then all of the sudden *woosh* a goblin appears in thin air, farts in your face, and disappears. What the...? WTF WAS THAT? So you know, you go back to work on your essay, and it happens again! AND YOU KNOW it's going to happen AGAIN and AGAIN but you have NO IDEA why or how to stop it! So the whole while, you're trying to predict when the next goblin fart will come when you're supposed to be working on your essay.
And also, they made a bad design where they made applications full screen, so all of the sudden the weather pops up and completely obliterates anything I was working on. The other problem was that I couldn't figure out a way to close the weather app. There's no X in the corner, there's no instructions, it just won't die.
But the worst part of this is that they include "swipe gestures". One of those swipe gestures. One of these problems is that you could swipe your finger to switch applications from the left edge of the touchpad to the right. The problem is that there is no difference between switching applications and moving the cursor. Windows treats the touchpad like a touchscreen on a tablet. The problem is are completely different interfaces and used in completely different ways. When you use a tablet, your movements are more or less absolute. It means, if you want to get to a button on the screen you just put your finger right where that button is. No need to move a cursor, you don't even have a cursor. So when you are touching the icon or button, you are sending information about position. A touch pad, on the other hand, is used exactly like a mouse is. You provide a relative direction to move the cursor. To visualize this, let's say you have a drawing app like paint. And the cursor is starting on the left hand of the canvas. If you are using a tablet, You either draw from the left edge to the middle, through the middle, or the middle to the right. You are producing 3 different outputs. But when you are using the touchpad on Windows 8, all three of those movements are going to produce the same exact thing and the touchpad is being treated like a touchscreen on a tablet. AAAAAND, sometimes when I would be moving the cursor, it would register as a SWIPE!
I'll tell you so much more if you want, but I think Roblox won't allow me to put anymore.
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| 03 Mar 2013 11:54 AM |
can you make an tl'dr version please
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WIFIM101
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:39 PM |
| Let me sum it up for you, pal. Windows 8 is not a usable operating system. |
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:40 PM |
did you really spend the time to type that?
or is it a copy paste? |
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WIFIM101
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:41 PM |
I spent the time, my friend.
I don't have much of a life. |
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jedi8527
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:42 PM |
I'm stuck with windows 8
FML |
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:42 PM |
dude, this is the roblox forums.
you don't talk about serious things here.
go to engadget or something, and get flamed. |
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WIFIM101
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:43 PM |
Midichlorians, I'm posting what I want to post. That includes where I want to post it, too. |
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:43 PM |
NO.
you will post this on the verge forums and get flamed. |
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WIFIM101
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:45 PM |
| glad that we have an understanding here. |
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WIFIM101
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Taven2
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:47 PM |
| You must be thinking too hard. Windows 8 took me only a few minutes to get used to. |
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:49 PM |
This was really long, and I skimmed most of it, but really I think Windows users kind of need to get used to it. They've basically confirmed the desktop feature won't exist in Windows 9, and we don't have other options until Steam becomes fully available for Linux. |
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:54 PM |
| i have windows 8. ive adapted to the new interface that microsoft designed , but i hate that this os has a tablet screen when you turn it on. |
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:55 PM |
| I would recommend Start8 or a similar program. Makes the OS run A LOT like Windows 7 UI wise. |
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Grayssake
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Taven2
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| 04 Mar 2013 10:56 PM |
| I don't have it on touch screen mode. I treat my new computer like it's my child. |
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| 04 Mar 2013 11:08 PM |
Good thing HP sells laptops with Windows 7.
~C.E.O of Uniblock and Elektrastallion Studios~ |
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