Was it really that bad?
Was it really that bad?
Lucas Gutierrez
Wyatt Hughes
Yes.
Adrian Rivera
Yes it was. Completely covering your desktop just to open the start """""menu""""" was retarded.
Leo Jones
i really liked it at first, but looking back and realising 90% of its on-screen time was when id hit start, type the name of a lrogram and hit enter. once i learned this i was already on ubuntu with gnome and it made me ditch arcmenu for rofi, since i already know what programs i have installed and i just need to type the name to run it
i still enjoy the start menu, especially the windows 8.1 and 10 ones, unironically. but i dont personally have much use for the except for pleasing my austism brain with habing neat boxes in neat categories for everything i have installed. that i never click on. like having posters up in your room, but for software, and you only see it when you hit start.
Brayden James
Yeah. Granted you could right click the start menu button to get to stuff like the control panel without having to use this monstrosity.
Carter Wood
But you get to look at funny moving tiles :DDD
Blake Evans
it wasnt that bad, but it was dumb. i legitimately tried to use it for a month before i installed classic start
Ayden Foster
It wasn't better than what it tried to replace. So it was a just waste of everyone's time.
Jose Bennett
Nope. Used it for a few years at work and home. I did end up downgrading to 7 though because of some fickle software.
Jack Jones
It was pretty annoying but I never really understood the autists who were seething so much about it. In retrospect, windows 8.1 was pretty good imho.
Matthew Hall
They used a touchscreen mobile OS for a desktop.
Isaac Russell
I was a fan of Windows 8.x. I never understood the hatred.
Josiah Wood
So does gnome, what's your point?
James Gray
yes, absolutely
Isaac Price
It was fantastic for phones and tablets. I have both and still prefer it over Android and iOS. But the market share of Metro phone and tablet users to desktop users was miniscule, so the vast majority of Metro users hated it.
Gabriel Garcia
Windows 8 was fucking awful
Windows 8.1 was pretty good
The tiles really had a lot of SOVL on mobile, but it just didnt translate well to desktop.
Jackson Bell
8.1 mogged 7
Jackson Watson
I will never u derstand why Windows thinks we want to see "news" on our desktop. This makes no sense at all why are they trying so hard to shove that in our face??? Same shit with edge start page!!!
To a lesser extent, why create these retarded thematic shortcuts "games" "photos" nobody uses these everyone creates their own custom folders why are they trying so hard to force the user experience it is infuriating!!!!
Nicholas Price
Because normies don't customize, but it impresses the normies, so it's on by default. Power users can simply unpin them, but normies will keep them around forever.
Hudson Phillips
Yes.
The start page should've just outright replaced the desktop.
But that would've been too ballsy of a move.
Jackson Rodriguez
No.