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post #271 of 356
5/21/12 at 10:56am
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Originally Posted by UltraVolta425 View Post

Meh I disagree. When you're using a mouse and an ordinary LCD monitor (read: no touchscreen), METRO is about as useful as having the only telephone in the world. What good is all that tablet stuff if you're on a desktop?
Before Windows 8 (read: in Windows 7) you just press the Start button and you could access almost everything from there. Now you have to move your mouse to the edge of the screen and still do a thorough search for where that thing you're looking for is located...
I admit: very handy on a Windows 8 tablet (are there any out yet, even? rolleyes.gif ) but in my way when I'm on a desktop.

windows 8 hit the windows button and start typing the program name, it auto-searches for you. The tile interface for Metro would be much better if we had the option for much smaller tiles and nested groups
But i don't really hate it
post #272 of 356
5/21/12 at 11:01am
AWESOME! Down with the stylistic UI.

Windows classic is now default. biggrin.gif

The best approach i have see with a UI is EVE online. It's clean, simple, square and everything is aligned perfectly. I also like small text.
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post #273 of 356
5/21/12 at 11:08am
What the Fffffffffff-front lawn...

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post #274 of 356
5/21/12 at 11:20am
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I just switched to the Windows Classic theme after seeing this thread. I saw a 20C idle temp drop(passive 6850 that may have a loose heatsink) and idle VRAM usuage went from 130mb idle/260mb with firefox and youtube to 23mb idle/51mb with firefox and youtube.
It may not be demanding really but turning it off gave me a massive temperature drop and is most likely saving power(would be useful for laptops?)
Most likely it won't affect game performance as Aero is disabled when running games fullscreen.
Also keep in mind, I wasn't using the semi-transparent windows for Aero, I turned that off a while ago because it started to get a little cheesy. The difference may be even larger for anyone using that.
Still, I'm not buying Windows 8. The lack of the start menu is annoying, and the Metro thing is way too gimmicky, but most important; Windows 7 does everything I need it to and I see no reason to upgrade.

I think your temps have to do with the heatsink. The mem is true though. And for laptops the basic theme is fine if you don't want Aero for them. I think some aspects of it are cheesy, but I like the glass features, keep those, but the animations are kinda cheesy. Not as cheesy as some animations on OSX though.
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post #275 of 356
5/21/12 at 12:11pm
Turn this:
375

Into this:
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And I might feel okay about it.
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post #276 of 356
5/21/12 at 12:13pm
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While we're still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop and Metro environments of its latest operating system, the company has now revealed a significant change to the desktop portion of Windows 8 -- a completely restyled visual appearance. As you might remember from the Consumer Preview, window borders and widgets featured a simplified and subdued look in comparison to the glass-like materials of Aero, which Microsoft now calls "dated and cheesy." With the latest refresh, however, the company has pushed its modernistic philosophy even further to reveal a spartan (yet functional) interface that draws less attention to the chrome elements and allows the user to focus more on content.
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This is meme worthy fail.
It's almost as if they're trying to make it worse. They've added the ribbon in Windows Explorer (I think?), removed the start button, and now they're removing Aero? I'm sure there's plenty I've missed too, but what on earth are they doing?!

How is this "meme worthy fail"? Apple ditched their isometric look a long time ago, was that a fail? Ubuntu/Gnome3 ditch the crappy looking old Linux design, was that a fail?

 

What was Aero really doing for anyone anyway? It eats up resources and doesn't really offer much, and I agree with them...it's an old look now back from the days of "look we have GPU power, let's throw in some stuff!"

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post #277 of 356
5/21/12 at 12:28pm
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How is this "meme worthy fail"? Apple ditched their isometric look a long time ago, was that a fail? Ubuntu/Gnome3 ditch the crappy looking old Linux design, was that a fail?

What was Aero really doing for anyone anyway? It eats up resources and doesn't really offer much, and I agree with them...it's an old look now back from the days of "look we have GPU power, let's throw in some stuff!"

Meh, it doesn't use that much of my resources and it looks nicer than Basic.
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post #278 of 356
5/21/12 at 1:10pm
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Turn this:

Into this:

And I might feel okay about it.
Uh, you know that ribbon is collapsible and is by default collapsed, right? So that it will look exactly like the second screen you posted?
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5/21/12 at 1:26pm
I have no problem with this. Aero is a waste of processing power.
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confused.gif
This is meme worthy fail.
It's almost as if they're trying to make it worse. They've added the ribbon in Windows Explorer (I think?), removed the start button, and now they're removing Aero? I'm sure there's plenty I've missed too, but what on earth are they doing?!

How do you feel now that the thread is not going how you want it to go?rolleyes.gif

Hate some more.
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5/21/12 at 1:38pm
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windows 8 hit the windows button and start typing the program name, it auto-searches for you. The tile interface for Metro would be much better if we had the option for much smaller tiles and nested groups
But i don't really hate it
I just played around with it today and have to say the way that works is really so slow compared to windows 7.
In windows 7 i can type lets say "device manager" and hit enter and it instantly starts it.
In windows 8 i type "device manager" and it doesn't instantly pops up since its in another tab, so you have to go to that tab and then click on device manager.
It may not see much but it will really stack if you use it often (like me)
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