Yeah, but I think we're talking about a whole different thing here.

The sheep I speak of should take precautions against being seen as total idiots.

Bessie and her sisters should take precautions against peculiar looking offspring.

So how does a redneck woman get her man in the mood when he says he's all plum-tuckered out?

She throws a sheepskin over her back and gets on all fours.

Thanks for the links Wiz.

I particularly liked this one: tips & tricks for making Windows 8 less useless 

 

I also wonder how many folks like me are out there; I own 2 licenses but may never use them.

 

Nah, when me and the wife have sex, it's always doggie style.

 

I get on all fours and beg, she rolls over and plays dead.  

Here ya go, starkers.

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1223296/official-windows-8-fan-club

I was going to stay right the hell out of this thread, but.......

 

 

I keep reading posts of people saying they've checked it out, or have read things 'from both sides' etc.  Yet when I have posted a link to specific positives in Windows 8 it has at least twice now become a thread/discussion killer (one example is the 'Let's face it Win 8 sux' thread).

 

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/better-on-the-inside-under-the-hood-of-windows-8/

 

If the reasons people keep giving for disliking Windows 8 don't dispute any of the positives in articles such as the above linked article and center around the 'look & feel' then why can't those things which actually are positives for Windows 8 be seen and acknowledged as such?  Obviously the current 'look & feel' of Windows 8 has been great for Stardock's business but that doesn't mean that under the hood Windows 8 is crap.

Maybe there needs to be a more obvious difference between disliking metro/modern UI and disliking Windows 8.

That is the primary reason I won't waste money on Win8. There just isn't enough actual meaningful (to me)improvements over Win7. I read the article you linked to and to be honest, none of those things mentioned mean anything to me or have any bearing on how I use my PC. I won't and don't say 8 is crap, only that is visually unappealing and lacking in any significant gains over Win7 Ultimate in my opinion. YMMV

I did have a brief window of opportunity to get a legit version for free, but that has come and gone. Had I obtained a copy, I would do so only in a dual boot configuration and then I would be better positioned to give an honest opinion of the OS in actual real-world use. I have older hardware (1st gen Phenom x4, 8 GBs DDR2, SATA II) and I don't think a simple OS change is going to make any major difference in overall performance.

I'm looking forward to the evaluation release of Blue coming out. I'm running Windows 8 on one of my laptops (Linux on the other two) and have liked it so much I bought a Surface RT and a Nokia Windows Phone 8.

I very much like the direction I see Windows going and look forward to seeing it evolve into something even better over the next few years.

The biggest hurdle I see for Windows now is the people who simply do not like change. They want something new, but they want it to be exactly like the old. Reminds me of the people who pissed and moaned when Ubuntu introduced Unity; the exact same comments about that as some are making about Metro (sorry, Modern UI).

I used Windows 7 part time, and only when I absolutely had to run an application without any Linux equivalent. With Windows 8 I actually enjoy it. The start screen, once set up to my needs and liking, is far faster and more efficient than digging through a start menu, and much cleaner looking than a desktop full of icons.

I also like the full screen apps. No wasted screen real estate. It looks very clean to me.

I also find Windows 8 runs faster, for me, than Windows 7 ever did, on the exact same machine (wiped 7 and installed 8).

But, everyone has their likes and dislikes. Personally, I like the new Windows.

As detailed in the following thread, I personally found the opposite to be true.  No previous OS (including the Win XP Pro that old notebook shipped with) have run better/smoother on it than Windows 8.

 

https://forums.stardock.com/439592

Nah, you're doing it all wrong!  For a start, you don't get down and beg like a puppy, no, no, no no, no.

Nope, what you do is get on your back with all fours up in the air and your wedding tackle at the ready.  You then start breathing erratically and look as if you're lapsing in and out of consciousness.  She looks down and thinks: "Well if he's gonna die anyway, best I use this [the wedding tackle] before he done goes and croaks it."

Hehe, you get the best of both worlds... you get a nooky and she does all the work.

Ain't that the truth!  Thing is, Windows was running out of places to go without the innovations 8 brought us... like where else could it have gone.  It needed to be different and bring new technologies, to make better use of the old ones, but it's like you say, people only want change if things stay the same.  And then there's the crowd from rentamob... those who bag it without ever trying it simply cos the bloke next to 'em said disparaging things.

I had one of those not long ago, mouthing off about how bad Windows 8 is, and how you can't get anything done on it.  I fired up my PC and first up showed him the Modern UI. 

"Wow, what's that?"

"Um, that's Windows 8... you know, that POS you can't get anything done on."

Obviously he hadn't seen it close up/in use before, yet there he was mouthing off like it was some-long time enemy who'd slept with his wife.

Like you, I think Windows 8 is a very likable and refreshingly usable OS... and yes, it is decidedly faster, even on older hardware.  I put a copy on a visitors machine [dual core AMD Athlon 4600, platter HDD] and it's still pretty quick despite the age of the hardware/no SSD.  Let's just say it runs rings around Win 7 when it was on there.

Well, I almost had a copy, but it went to some other sheep.

Blah...blah...blah...blah, oops, I do believe I mistyped that, should have been Baa...baa...baa...baa.

 

Wizard.......in case you missed it.....(with all of this sheep stuff being posted about I'd not be surprised!)....I linked to a thread in my latest reply back on page one that you might find interesting with regard to 'Win8 on older hardware'.

 

Not only did Windows 8 install on the oldest hardware I have in my home it is also running that hardware better/smoother than all previous MS OS's that had been installed on that hardware previously.  I continue to be impressed with what amount to significant performance improvements in Windows8 vs older MS OS's (including Windows7) especially when run on older hardware.

 

I revisited that thread...my hardware isn't quite that old. It is all outdated but was high end equipment in its day. What I have now is plenty snappy with a hand-me-down SSD in it so it's not like it is a slug, by any means.  Sooner or later, I'll have a relative with a Win8 rig that needs work and I guess I'll have to get a feel for it then. For now, a new OS is waaay out of my budget.

Yes, it is definitely the fastest, smoothest Windows OS to date, on both old and new hardware.

Furthermore, it is also the most stable/dependable/reliable! 

I have yet to see a BSOD in win 8, and that's since the 1st preview edition.

The same cannot be said for previous OSes... including Win 7, which early on produced several driver related BSOD's