collegeboy69us
Supreme [H]ardness
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2003
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Running a copy "for fun" as that's how I learn.
Once you get rid of the craptastic "start screen" and get any one of the various 3rd party start button programs back... it's not too bad.
Bottom line:
Charms bar -- 100% useless
"start screen" and the "live tiles" -- 90% useless
The only thing I really do love and enjoy is the new copy/paste setup. Being able to pause one transfer so another one speeds up is VERY useful to me when I'm moving several hundred GB's around. Seeing the performance data is a nice bonus too.
Task manager is much improved when it comes to letting you know every little thing a process is doing.
Once I got my start button back - I was pretty happy. Using Classic Shell at the moment. It's small, efficient, and once setup how I like it's slick.
I'm glad I didn't pay real money for this though -- (Yay MSDN) Trying to put a large and diverse desktop ecosystem into a few silly ass "tiles" just flat doesn't work. Not when you have 27" screen, mouse, keyboard, all that jazz.
In the table world - I'm sure it's tits. I still need to take an hour or so and fully configure the start screen with a few custom things and see if I like it better. I'm not impressed with the live tiles either. I had it queue up some music and it wasn't intuitive at all just trying to change the god damn volume or skip a track. Would have been cool if the live tile had some functionality maybe play/stop/next or something. I've caught the weatherbug app/tile giving old incorrect data for my location. I like the idea of having some live widgets and stuff like on the start page, but I want to be able to WORK there too.
Once you get rid of the craptastic "start screen" and get any one of the various 3rd party start button programs back... it's not too bad.
Bottom line:
Charms bar -- 100% useless
"start screen" and the "live tiles" -- 90% useless
The only thing I really do love and enjoy is the new copy/paste setup. Being able to pause one transfer so another one speeds up is VERY useful to me when I'm moving several hundred GB's around. Seeing the performance data is a nice bonus too.
Task manager is much improved when it comes to letting you know every little thing a process is doing.
Once I got my start button back - I was pretty happy. Using Classic Shell at the moment. It's small, efficient, and once setup how I like it's slick.
I'm glad I didn't pay real money for this though -- (Yay MSDN) Trying to put a large and diverse desktop ecosystem into a few silly ass "tiles" just flat doesn't work. Not when you have 27" screen, mouse, keyboard, all that jazz.
In the table world - I'm sure it's tits. I still need to take an hour or so and fully configure the start screen with a few custom things and see if I like it better. I'm not impressed with the live tiles either. I had it queue up some music and it wasn't intuitive at all just trying to change the god damn volume or skip a track. Would have been cool if the live tile had some functionality maybe play/stop/next or something. I've caught the weatherbug app/tile giving old incorrect data for my location. I like the idea of having some live widgets and stuff like on the start page, but I want to be able to WORK there too.