While I was playing around with Windows 8 this last weekend I came to a conclusion. I have an opinion like everyone else, but I’m not going to bore everyone with why I don’t like it. Instead I’ll give a vague nutshell explanation with an image I ripped from reddit:
More pretty crap that gets in my way.
Experience beyond opinion
While people like to rip on Windows for the sake of ripping on Windows there hasn’t been much of a reason to in the last year or two. Windows 7 has been a very solid OS around the house. It’s never crashed, it’s been fast and easy to use. So why am I done? Easy. When Windows 7 has run it’s course and reached the end of life I’m guessing they’ll have everything so locked down it will be counter productive.
When I was still using my Mac G4 I favored the idea of OS X. It stayed out of the way and was simple to use. I was able to have the application front and center without being reminded what operating system I was running. It let me get work done.
Now that the folks at Microsoft are all about being in your face like a three year old screaming “watch me, watch me!” like I’m supposed to care about how tab-centric it is. The fact is I don’t care. I don’t want anything to do with a tablet or a touch screen. I run a work station on my desk. Touch pads are terrible for coding. I’d rather use my Wacom tablet than finger paint or use a stylus on screen for my preferences in pressure sensitivity.
Maybe someday. Five years? Ten? Don’t know. Don’t care either. For now I keep using what works for me while letting Microsoft push me further and further away with Metro and Windows 8 sticker system requirements. Between the other choices available, I guess UNIX based systems really are the future. Mine anyways.
