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Video rant against Windows 8
TaoPhoenix:
The video was annoying - rhetoric as well as voice. He also obviously tries to cash-in on the ZeroPunctuation style (colors, graphics, hyperbole) - but while it works wonderfully for Yahtzee and is a fine way to review games, it makes me want to smack the Boyko dude in the face.
He claims he's spent time with a bunch of other operating systems, even Linux back in the days... so, like, he did no RTFM'ing or googling or anything for any of those? Then he sits down with Win8, does no RTFM'ing (a few minutes on google would have solved any of this problems), and apparently doesn't even apply prior Windows knowledge (like Alt+F4)? Come on.
I'm not sure if it's plain stupidity or pageview-bleargh. I'd say a healthy dose of both.
Win8 still going strong on my work laptop, btw, and I'm hardly ever seeing Metro pop up.
-f0dder (January 14, 2013, 01:01 PM)
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Pretty on target F0dder. My early impression without having used it is that there are certainly some new and probably annoying wrinkles, "the style is the message". The word-per-min count is really high, and that only works for two things - inspiring excitement from a brilliant presentation or ... high pressure agenda-sales. After a few days since this thread was posted, with some time to think, I'd say now I'd prefer a slower, FAR more balanced presentation with a slant like "okay, for those of you who are used to your desktop, you do this-andthis-andthis-andthis and you get back to something mostly resembling what you are used to."
But none of that may even matter, which makes it all worse. Some time back there was a quick article about "Windows Blue" (aka Windows 8.1 / 9 / SP1) which might in fact fix a lot of things. So there's little worse than getting dragged into a "topical rant" which might be old hat by July.
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