Topic: Windows 8 is a catastrophe ...

[selmiak]

ScummVM will probably be running on Win8 too. Haven't tested it though.

[abstauber]

@ProgZ: Have you evaluated Windows88 ?

Anyway, I hardly ever use the start button and MacOS doesn't have this at all, so I think I won't miss it. As long as it's stable and fast, I'll be fine.
So I guess I'm pretty much on Magintz' side here, even though I haven't "touched" it yet.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

With youtube and hundreds of review sites you don't really even need to evaluate software yourself anymore to get a good idea of what it does and what it does not do well, and judging from what I've been reading it doesn't really do anything that I care about better than windows 7, and it has a bunch of things I definitely do not like.  I just don't approve of the continuing direction toward catering to the lowest common denominator, ie, computer illiterates.

[Anian]

It seems like instead of simplifying and optimizing the core of the actual OS they just go for esthetics of it and limiting the user (that's what really annoyed the hell out of me in W7) in what you can do or what you can access and only ends up in a user trying to fix something that went wrong with the OS, but has to fight the interface and access issues of the W7.

I know very little about inner workings of Windows, but I also had to fix bugs and troubleshootings more than a few times and I only managed that by searching through the internet. I just seriously doubt that they fixed the many issues in W8.

[suicidal pencil]

This: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407046,00.asp

Sounded like he had more of a problem with Kickstarter itself then the OUYA. Regardless, he does bring up a good point: smaller companies (and large ones too) simply don't have a good grip on the logistics of such projects. They could have some of the best hardware & software designers around, it would still mean nothing if they can't find somewhere to manufacture it, someone to sell it, someone to distribute it, etc. Lord have mercy on their souls if they don't even have a decent salesman...

Getting back on track, I haven't been paying any attention at all to Windows 8 for the same reason I refuse to watch My Little Pony: it gives me an excuse to not have to talk or think about it. Contrary to popular practice, opinions should be based on facts sprinkled with personal feelings, not the latest rumors and gossip. Without the facts, I can not assemble a proper opinion. If I can not assemble a proper opinion, I have no reason to speak.

Even though I've put effort into ignoring W8, I still know juuuuust enough about it (two things) to know that I'll hate it with a passion. First and most obvious it's another attempt to sell computers to idiots. I normally wouldn't have an issue with this, except when it seems that they think everyone but themselves is technologically retarded. Second, I hate touch screens. Give me a mouse and keyboard any day. I'd rather have CTS then a touch screen.

I'm still using Windows XP, and occasionally Debian. I haven't completely gotten lost in Linux-land because Windows still has much better game support (and da AGS editor )