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Was it just because not so many people used win 3.x and so ms could change it without so much moaning?
If metro was developed instead of the windows 95 start menu, would it have been hated as much??
Please make this for Ubuntu.
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All of the new desktop environments I know of (Win 8, Gnome 3, Unity) are steps backwards. The classical desktop concept (taskbar + floating windows) has tens of years of evolution behind it. If there was a better concept, it would have been invented before.
I'm sorry, but that's just a terrible way of thinking about things. If we assume things that have been around for a while have reached their apex by virtue of them having been around for a while we'd never make any progress.
Do you use a desk?
Do you use paper?
Do you use folders?
How big is your desk?
How do you keep the papers on your desk?
Do you hold up one sheet to read and one sheet exclusively?
Do you keep a bunch of sheets side-by-side and compare them to each other?
Do you like to open folders repeatedly or open a few papers from each folder?
"Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps. Traditional desktop window paradigms are powerful but obsolete." Just NO NO AND NO, I can't be the only one who hates the new Windows interface, I want to be able to place my windows where I want them not be forced to use full screen for everything, or rely on some automated way to place them, I know better than the OS how and…
Personally I find manual window-management extremely tedious. I want a window-manager to actually manage my windows for me. So on that part, I agree with the statement. That however doesn't mean that any automatic window-management is an improvement simply by being automatic.
There are bad automatic window-managers. The one in Windows 8 can clearly be be categorized as such. That however doesn't mean that all automatic window-management is bad.
On Linux, I like tiling VMs, because that means I no longer have to manage Windows manually, yet I get to remain in control of what I do and how I position my "windows". This is good automatic Window-management.
One day I hope Windows will be able to get there and get something of equal power and usefulness. That is, without throwing all the users not power-users out the Window, because current Linux tiling-VMs are obviously aimed at and created for power-users. User-friendlyness and intuitiveness has been sacrificed in the process.
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Well not really if you want to use Metro apps.
I have yet to find a single Metro app that's both superior (or even equal to ) to an equivalent desktop app, and that justifies having to deal with the start screen and it's dismal multitasking.
Users never arriving to the TIFKAM-scene ensures no developers will bother developing for it.
Am i the only one who does not like "touch" on a desktop/laptop. It is not the revolutionary input method that makes everything magical. I want to think in boxes (desktops) not a fluid streams of desktop space. We need something else for the desktop.
It is even less appropriate on a server OS - I have no idea what they were thinking making Windows Server 2012 use the same touch oriented start menu replacement nightmare.... [Having to use a demo VM that has 2012 installed at the moment and I'm finding it incredibly annoying].
While Metro/Modern/Whatever is incredible annoying in itself when not on a tablet, having it (which depends on screen-corners) running in a VM which is typically window'ed brings the madness to new dimension.
For minimum frustration, I recommend fullscreen.
"Personalization
Users are given control over the desktop background that gives personality to the user experience."
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What the fuck???!
If they advertise like that then why don't they just sell Windows 95 again?