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Windows 8 is ugly

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reba

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With out telling me I should not have bought the dumb thng any help out here for it?

Can some one tell me why I get this... Christianforums is not responding .... then is says some thing like long script.....


I should have listened Tim but I have a dell account then I guess I should have listened about owing no man.... sheesh

The wages of sin is windows 8
 
Don't worry Reba, Linux forgives you! :amen :lol

You can install it side-by-side with windows or by itself.

You maybe should have help installing it just in case. I won't say Linux is without it's problems, and never have. Sometimes it's a tad attitudinal to install (at least with some of my older computers but maybe that's because I get cheap parts :lol), but once it's installed and working, it's intuitive to use, it works well over all, it does not slow up over time, and of course nowhere near the malware --- I have yet to even remotely have problems in that area.

If it's installed next to windows, you can still use windows for some of the special programs, but use Linux for at least for the basic (and more malware dangerous stuff) such as browsing, web sites (including online transactions), emails, office functions such as doc, spreadsheet and powerpoint type work, personal pictures, files and videos, and so forth. Linux also cleans malware off of the Microsoft part of your disk if you have any such viruses, and if the Microsoft does not boot, you can still use the Linux.

But I understand that there's some programs created only for Microsoft in spite of the vast choices Linux has, and if you have a few favorite ones, then keep the Microsoft for that --- there's no "sin" in that. But then quickly switch back to the Linux before the next virus gets ya! If you only want the Windows 8 for the basic functions I mentioned, then you don't need Windows at all and indeed are asking for trouble if you do.
 
Without bashing Microsoft as I usually do, I take some sympathy in a fellow who is down, even someone I don't like. Microsoft IMO from what I am hearing really did a number on themselves with Windows 8. Most people who buy a Microsoft computer today are begging to have Windows 7 installed instead while retailers and Microsoft are attitudinal about giving them what they want. That's a suicidal death wish if you ask me. It's like government and big bureaucracy. They ask people what they want, and then do something opposite, and wonder why they fail later on (I guess because they know 'what's best for you').

This is my analysis as to what happened (and see if y'all don't agree). The idea behind windows 8 was to merge that with personal devices, i.e. smart phones, tablets, etc similar to what Apple has. They coveted the success of Apple and tried to build a new OS around the device idea and then extrapolate that to the (dying) computer tower as well. In other words, the tower is not the standard, but now your phone and tablet is. So they tried to mimic the OS of Apple, and others such as Android, etc.

The problem is............ Microsoft does not have experience in that market. The OS that runs these devices are Unix-like based, something that Microsoft sadly lacks in. Their platform is altogether different which is why they get viruses. But they "all of a sudden" want to jump in and now play with the Unix boys so-to-speak and create an OS that can not only run computer towers and laptops, but phones and pads as well?
I don't theeeeenk so. And that's why Windows 8 is such a mess from what I can see.
 
I agree Tim,,,, I don't have smart phones, I don't want them I don't like stuff that tracks me... I have 21 days to decide it is not going to take me that long I believe I will have to settle for dell and that would be windows 7 .. When the rep guy called yesterday I asked him if they sold Linux :) ....If I can get my money back I will if I have exchange then settle 7 ..

Blev There are more steps in doing what I want .. Same for you? Stuff gets lost....I cant have the clock showing all the time.... I used that clock.... I watched for stuff in the oven etc... Not happy.. Nothing goes were I think it should....All those dumb apps... I bought advertising then I get bing and their idea of news or msn and what they think I want to read ... I don't care one bit about who in Hollywood is doing what or who...
Charms? nothing charming about those things showing up
They ask people what they want, and then do something opposite, and wonder why
they fail later on (I guess because they know 'what's best for you').
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yup:sad
 
reba said:
I agree Tim,,,, I don't have smart phones, I don't want them I don't like stuff that tracks me... I have 21 days to decide it is not going to take me that long I believe I will have to settle for dell and that would be windows 7 .. When the rep guy called yesterday I asked him if they sold Linux ....If I can get my money back I will if I have exchange then settle 7 .. Blev There are more steps in doing what I want .. Same for you? Stuff gets lost....I cant have the clock showing all the time.... I used that clock.... I watched for stuff in the oven etc... Not happy.. Nothing goes were I think it should....All those dumb apps... I bought advertising then I get bing and their idea of news or msn and what they think I want to read ... I don't care one bit about who in Hollywood is doing what or who... Charms? nothing charming about those things showing up yup
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This is your longest term paper ever - poured out against Windows. Woooow. A chronicle of...
 
Classik said:
This is your longest term paper ever - poured out against Windows. Woooow. A chronicle of...
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Well now you know why my wrath is also so great. I'm not the type to have this much animosity without it being earned, and I don't know why some even take my Microsoft jabs personally. But I have been for years and years shafted, and screwed, and spied on, and patronized by that OS for a good sum of money. Then it is expected that one pays even more for software to correct their flaws (sort of like having to pay your dealership to fix an engineering flaw in your car even when it's brand new).

I've never heard of such idiocy in all my days, and I am totally baffled why the public puts up with this sort of "shaftmanship" because they would not put up with it on any other product. It sort of makes everyone look stupid, now, doesn't it?

And then they take the final jab and make an OS incomprehensible. Just look on the Internet all over the place of the gripes against how this Windows 8 works and how confusing it is. Microsoft IMO thinks they got this one-up-man ship and thought they could control things long enough now, and they don't realize they just dropped the ball --- major time. The only thing more stupid they could have done is stop issuing windows 7 on top of all this. But at least they did not go that far.
 
Any one know? are there any real American companys building computers and supporting their products?


Well, I just feel sorry for Reba. I feel her pain.
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Thank you
 
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I will be returning this Windows 8. The guy who handles that stuff should call tomorrow. The Dell tech guy had the nerve to suggest I BUY windows 7 and install it in this new computer.... I politely told him it is not my place to correct the mistakes of Microsoft.


Tim stop laughing.... :rollingpin
 
Nick said:
Apple, although they build in China I think.
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Apple recently announced they will start manufacturing products here in the US. So expect the price tag on your next iPad, etc..., to double, triple, or quadruple.
 
reba said:
I will be returning this Windows 8. The guy who handles that stuff should call tomorrow. The Dell tech guy had the nerve to suggest I BUY windows 7 and install it in this new computer.... I politely told him it is not my place to correct the mistakes of Microsoft.


Tim stop laughing.... :rollingpin
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Reba, seriously, I am NOT laughing. This OS can be very frustrating, and I understand. I only laugh at those who blindly follow Microsoft and then later on experience these problems in abundance. You already realize this OS patronizes its operators and treat them like dirt like an abusive husband that beats his wife. My posts are not to merely laugh at this OS, but to express the frustration, as you have, with the shenanigans it does.

I sometimes think that there are those who think I'm a Microsoft-bashing troll for no good reason, but I am dead serious because that OS is a piece of crap. I had virus after virus, I missed my opportunity to take online courses because I was afraid it would "get a virus on the day of the big exam or project" and in the many years I used it I could never, ever depend on it. Enough is enough. If only I knew about Linux a decade ago, but like most truth, they keep it covered up, and when there's those who would toot it's benefits, would express why it's not any better to cover Microsoft's inadequacies.

I don't want to hear "if more people used Linux there would be more viruses". That's downright bull. Linux is a multioperational OS unlike Microsoft. In other words, the operating system can handle more than one operator and log on. The system does not get viruses NOT because it's used less, but Unix was designed to keep each account separate from the other, and the system files are in the root directory. This is an OS that when one operator is logged onto the same computer as the other, the one does not interfere with the other, so a virus, at worse, would affect only that user's account and not spread to the root directory, and thus, the functioning of the computer.

Now Microsoft has only one user, and has access to the root directory, not mentioning that communal hippy "registry" file that when one program is infected spreads to the whole computer. Don't go to a Linux guru and talk about "registry' or "safe mode" unless you want to be laughed to scorn. Linux has no registry, and has no safe mode.... only GUI and terminal mode. And the fact that Linux does not have these is why its so immune to viruses.
 
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