30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8

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30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 20, 2012 @11:33AM from the devil's-advocate dept.

First time accepted submitter Funksaw writes "Back in 2007, I wrote three articles on Ubuntu 6, Mac OS X 10.4, and Windows Vista, which were all featured on Slashdot. Now, with the release of Windows 8, I took a different tactic and produced an animated video. Those expecting me to bust out the performance tests and in-depth use of the OS are going to be disappointed. While that was my intention coming into the project, I couldn't even use Windows 8 long enough to get to the in-depth technical tests. In my opinion, Windows 8 is so horribly broken that it should be recalled."

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Not again... by recoiledsnake · 2012-12-20 11:35 · Score: -1, Troll

The rants and negativity is getting old while there are tons of people who take a few minutes to get used to it and feel it's actually better.
Why not learn from a 3 year old how to use Windows 8?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZgcAacIxU
Or from a five year old?
http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-portugal-shows-the-simplicity-of-windows-8-in-a-different-way/

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1. Re:Not again... by mystikkman · 2012-12-20 11:41 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  This is reminding of Slashdot's lame attempts and FUD against Windows 7 with the fake benchmark shit and false claims of DRM.
  Seriously, I know several people who actually like Windows 8 better.
  Watch a couple of videos if you're lazy and learn some shortcuts and it's a better Windows 7 at the worst.
  How to use Windows 8 in 4 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi8NpwiEuzc
  Windows 8 Tutorial in 12 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E1UxI5I_jo
2. Re:Not again... by murdocj · 2012-12-20 12:20 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  You mean sort of the way I accidently hit something on my Mac and Firefox went full screen? Or you run a game on pretty much any computer and it goes full screen? Sounds like a horrific bug.
3. Re:Not again... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-20 12:34 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  AC gets modded up for calling a long time user and commentor a shill just because he has opinions on Microsoft products. Guess it's clear /. prefers anonymous users spouting dogma.
4. Re:Not again... by Outtascope · 2012-12-20 14:39 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Why, oh WHY does Microsoft not understand that I DON'T WANT TO TAKE MY HAND(S) OFF THE KEYBOARD!?!?! Touch is an idiotic paradigm in the desktop realm. It is great for mobile to browse the web, play angry birds, or fast forward to the good parts on YouPorn, but it just doesn't make sense for most productive uses. I don't care if some idiot savants can make the interface work for them, I am paying for it and I want it to work for me. Windows 8 does not do that. Windows 7 does, surprisingly well. I'll wait and see if it gets better with 9 or becomes totally worthless. And for the record, metro sucks balls on the XBox too. Bring back to old interface.
5. Re:Not again... by Jackie_Chan_Fan · 2012-12-20 15:13 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Human beings are rarely fair or rational. Most humans are religious zealots incapable of nuance, or change.
  Windows 8 is a great OS, better than 7 in every way, but since the start menu changed, its obviously trash. Humanity is just dumb.
6. Re:Not again... by crutchy · 2012-12-20 18:45 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  windows 8 is ok.... if you're a retarded fish
  
  it only sucks fat horse dick when you compare it to more useful platforms like debian with gnome2 or xfce
7. Re:Not again... by adolf · 2012-12-20 20:54 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  What's this trend in attacking 'negativity' as though doing so is a legit argument against what was said? Is this some kind of peer pressure to conform to the head-in-ground masses of ostriches who can't handle reality because they're too weak willed to not take everything personally?
  We're a kinder, softer, and somewhat more squishy generation. Name-calling is forbidden, and making fun of someone's work doubly so.
  It doesn't matter if little Timmy's science project is an abomination that only serves to display how little he knows about the subject, but only that Timmy tried. Trying is good enough.
  There are no winners, and no losers. No reward for being the best at something, and no detriment for being the worst, but just the same mediocre praise...as long as they tried.
  So, any expressed negativity can only serve one purpose: To hurt someone's feelings. And feelings are what's really important.*
  Why are you so mean? Can't you see that they tried?
  (* Yes, this is non-requiter, but then so is reality.)
  
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Re:Looks like a zero punctuation short by Jackie_Chan_Fan · 2012-12-20 11:49 · Score: -1, Troll

Its just like Yahtzee, minus the humor plus a big fat whining idiot.
Re:Really? by norpy · 2012-12-20 12:32 · Score: 0, Troll

Compared to the dinosaur that is XPsp3 win8 is probably awesome.
Compared to vista/7 it is a fucking nightmare
Re:For a guy who "learned Linux"... by PlusFiveTroll · 2012-12-20 14:08 · Score: 1, Troll

>Non-obviousness is not an issue. There are plenty of non-obvious and hidden interface designs that are good, like right context menus, double clicking, click drag,
Please die. When you travel to that dark place, let Steve Jobs retrain you how to make a user interface.
Right clicking is UI HIV+. It took me a long time to come to this conclusion, but it allows very bad UI design and lots of unexpected hidden things. Apple designed better UI's because they did not have a right click for a long time. Show the user what can be done visually, not by groping in the dark.
Double click and drag click are the most fun things ever to explain to a user, doubly so over the phone. You don't double click in the metro interface. Multiple versions of windows came with the single click to launch option (default in one of them I think).
No what Microsoft has done here is tossed out billions of hours of user training to make a half baked interface to compete with Apple and Android. Microsoft has always sucked at good UI design and continues to do so.
Re:This guy is an idiot by slashmydots · 2012-12-20 15:01 · Score: -1, Troll

Bullshit. BULLSHIT! You are so full of shit!!!!! You know what, go double click a JPG. Welcome to the New UI. I guess you haven't double clicked on a JPG )or any media file of any kind) for weeks. I'm pretty damn sure that a Microsoft PR staff member would find need to double click a JPG at some point during the day, okay. Nobody believes you.