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Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP

 

bad apple wrote:
>
> I know haters are gonna hate, but Win8.1 is by far the best desktop OS
> Microsoft have ever produced and it's trivial to completely ignore Metro
> - I'm no Microsoft fan but their flagship OS really doesn't deserve all
> the stick it's getting from morons who can't spend literally one minute
> of their time to configure it properly.

I work with some clever people, mostly software developers. One is an
absolute Apple fan, and I noted today his Mac screen backdrop is the same
as mine. Neither of us have taken a minute from our day to pick a
different backdrop. Okay his is a shiny new Mac Pro desktop so he probably
hasn't had it much over a minute. Trust me we both know how to change the
image, and we both have images of our kids we'd probably prefer if we did
change it.

So whilst I'm very happy to tell folks that Windows 8 really is better
than Windows 7, Microsoft deserve plenty of stick for stupid UI default
behaviour.

Most users don't give a fig any more about this stuff. They are use to
Android, and iOS, and Windows XP, Windows 7, and they really don't want to
have to change anything at all. Okay they like the ability to change a few
things occasionally, mostly they want it to "just work". Most home users
are pretty disgruntled at a login screen (unless they have kids). If they
must have password don't give them a username to remember. As a result you
see people migrating to Windows 7 because they took a 5 second look at 8
in the shop and decided "no".

Heck I got a Chromebook for the good lady, trust me the defaults are
perfect, the set-up really simple, you don't feel you have to change the
default behaviour to make it tolerable, and it mostly keeps itself up to
date fine. She does stuff she never did with Debian or Windows or Android
even, because it is easy, even though the options available on what can be
done are far fewer.



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