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I fear change. But at least there is a magazine to guide me.

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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Mon 17 Jun 2013, 22:41, archived)

It looks really nice, unless you actually want to get any work done on the fucking thing.

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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 22:51, archived)

A friend of mine who works fixing computers recently taught an elderly client to use it, and in about ten minutes they had managed to order all their shopping from Tesco. I think it's probably just a learning curve, and maybe they shouldn't have called it windows.
I'm looking forward to playing about with it when I get my new laptop in a few days.

(Jeremy Jumbles, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 22:56, archived)

That would be an impressive CSB...

...if the elderly client had not been forced to use their glossy malfunctioning tablet as a heliographic sender to morse their order to the local Tesco Metro wireless solar telegraph receiving station.

(Ronnie Spleen MMMMNEURRGH I AM A GAY SPAZ AND I LOVE IT UP MY BU, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:16, archived)

haha :D

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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 1:47, archived)

^i find this

quite scary :(

edit: i think it's short sighted to assume people are not clever enough to learn to use even just a slightly more complex interface. also getting everything delivered isn't the same as getting out & about for helping elderly people to socialise, stay well & actively mobile.

& then on the other end of the scale there's a whole bunch of kids who just don't understand how this stuff works...

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maggenspies mayhaps, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:37, archived)

Download the Free and Awesome Classic Shell

www.classicshell.net/
/your resident IT guy :D

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PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 22:59, archived)

Does it reinstate the "Start" button and all of its functionality?

I SAID DOES IT REINSTATE THE "START" BUTTON AND ALL OF ITS FUNCTIONALITY?????
SRSLY, Windows 8 is probably ok if you're using it on a tablet. It's a fucking nightmare though if you're using it on a PC and want to do any serious config stuff.

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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:28, archived)

8.1

www.theverge.com/2013/4/22/4251610/windows-8-1-start-button

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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:55, archived)

"the button will act as a method to simply access the Start Screen, and will not include the traditional Start Menu" kind of misses the point of it being a quick navigation.

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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 0:06, archived)

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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 1:05, archived)

I believe it can be set up to give you the All Apps view too

which is pretty similar to a start menu, except it takes up the whole screen - but at least isn't an utter waste of time, and learnable.

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gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 7:44, archived)

Learnable, but slower, less ordered and thus not as user friendly.

It feels like a cluttered desktop, rather than a navigation.

I ended up just pinning loads of stuff to the task bar for the sake of quick access.

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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 9:53, archived)

FUCKING TRY IT!!

DONT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT

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PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 1:19, archived)

'config stuff'

ELL. OHHH. ELL.

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PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 1:24, archived)

That's some technical talk right there Pedro.

I don't really expect you to understand, just sit there and look cute.

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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 5:52, archived)

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/help-ive-got-windows-8-and-i-miss-my-start-menu/

a few bucks and you get the windows 7 menu back, for free you get something extremely close to ti

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boris the spider, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 3:30, archived)

Look I thought I made this clear already but here it is again.

I don't care if you can click a button and make 8 absolutely identical in every way to 7. I JUST WANT TO BE ANGRY ABOUT IT AND YOU ARE TRYING TO SPOIL IT AND I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY.

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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 5:55, archived)

See also GNOME 3, KDE 4, Unity, OSX Lion, OSX Mountain Lion, iOS 7, and the alarmingly small Wagon Wheels you can buy today.

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boris the spider, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:29, archived)

ALSO

Windows 8 user-interface sucks donkey dicks, but other than that it's not too shabby

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PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:00, archived)

they simplified it

BY ADDING 4 MORE STEPS TO SHUT THE FUCKING THING DOWN

infuriating piece of shit.

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smearballs double bag it!, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:00, archived)

Yeah it's odd that

but it really is geared to 'on all the time' tablet use.

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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:29, archived)

SO MICRO$OFT CAN TRACK YOUR EVERY MOVE, EH KIDS!!!!1

Much like the always-on camera and microphone on the new Xbox - combine that with a Kinect-feedback fitness program, and you've just paid £500 to install Big Brother in your house.

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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 0:02, archived)

It used to be if you wanted to search for Windows Update

you would get no results, unless you chose an un-intuitive search sub-category. I believe that has aklso been fixed.
I am not affiliated with Microsoft.

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gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 7:45, archived)