bigdogchris
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I'm curious how many Windows 8 supporters/proponents use a Start Menu.
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I just have "All apps" as the start button. Native windows 8.1
All Apps has improved a bit in Update 1. There's an option now to put more on the screen so the listing is quite a bit denser. And you can now click on a heading and go into semantic zoom. If one were really lost and had no idea what app or program they were looking for, this is better than tiny hierarchal folder structures. But it is also like the most inefficient way to launch something, be it Windows 7 or 8. A much easier way to launch something is from the beginning of the Start Screen or from the taskbar. That makes it easy to launch a LOT of apps and programs, much more than the average person probably would ever run.
Don't use one on my home Win 8.1. At work I have Win 7 and don't use the Start button anyway.
Win 8 = Windows Key + X Can get to everything.
How many programs do people use?
And the whole rigamarole is a prime example of why Enterprise isn't going to stake their desktop computing on Win8 with a third party hack to re-enable a start menu: because Microsoft could break it at a moment's notice in the very next windows update or patch.
Hasn't anyone told you about the new Start Screen in Windows 8.x? It can do all kinds of things the old Start Menu could only dream of doing!
I use Oblytile, makes my tiles look pretty (anime pictures for nearly every icon yes, I'm an otaku, don't kill me).
Still, there's not really anything about the Start Menu that makes much easier for businesses in terms of productivity over the Start Screen other than familiarity.
That's pretty subjective, though. For some, the Start Screen just won't work for them.
The Start Menu is much easier for them. If it because it's familiar? Possibly.
Start menu = 1/12 as obtrusive as the Metro start screen. That may just have something to do with it. Also far less eye travel. When you work for 8-12hrs per day on a computer these nuances add up.
I work with 2 24" monitors at work. With 7, the Start Menu didn't obscure the screen when I needed to quickly launch a program. Start Screen does. There are a few of these little things that are minor in themselves, but like you said - they add up.
I like the Start Screen. But, I can't argue with what you've said. You are right. It's not horrible, but those minor things add up at the end of the day.
Here's the thing about the full screen argument. So one's eye have to scan more area, but doesn't that kind of contradict the point that the whole screen is used and obscuring other things? In other words you're looking at the whole screen and not just the Start Menu if you're worried about the Start Screen covering the whole screen.
I've never understood the 'jarring transition' argument or the 'it's full screen so it hides my work' arguments. They don't make sense to me. If I wanted to look at Eclipse or Visual Studio or Excel or whatever I had open, I wouldn't open the start screen in the first place. If I have it open, it's because I'm doing something other than looking at whatever I was working on, like opening something else. When I hit the windows key, I'm expecting the start screen to come up, so it isn't jarring at all. And when I want the start screen, it's because I want something in either it or search, not because I'm trying to look at Excel or Visual Studio or something else it could 'hide'. It doesn't matter that it takes up the full screen, because I'm not stupid enough to open the start screen when I want to be looking at Excel or something else. If you didn't want to look at the start screen, why did you open it in the first place? It's always just sounded like people looking for things to complain about. I can't imagine what people must actually do with their computers if the things they complain about are really problems for them. Life must be hard for them, and they might do well starring in an infomercial about how hard it is to boil pasta.
I'm curious how many Windows 8 supporters/proponents use a Start Menu.
Tried to get with the Start Screen but its bothersome for me as I have my keyboard on a drawer and never look at it (gotta love the home row).
Don't use one on my home Win 8.1. At work I have Win 7 and don't use the Start button anyway.
Win 8 = Windows Key + X Can get to everything.