A grand day for PA.

What happened to windows 9 you people ask?

Becuase 7 'ate' 9.

Trololololol.

Basically I just got it so I can play all my games. :>

admissible.

It's hanging out back with nvidia's 800 GPU series.

Is the live Preview of Windows 10 any good? Im thinking of waiting till the public official release of Windows 10 before I grab it.

Made the mistake of grabbing stuff early when it came to windows 8 :\

To quote you... "Get out"

It's a bit similar in design to windows 8, as in the hard edges and floaty icons, but that's just the aesthetic. Other than that it's practically Windows 7 with some upgrades, such as multiple desktops for example.

Sadly windows doesn't have a try it option like Linux does, without running a virtual machine I mean.

800M, though....

you get out.

the start button IS a waste of space.

and windows "windowed" start menu can, for some unknown reason not open as fast as the unwindowed one.

riddle me that.

I'll take speed and efficiency over aesthetics and frivolities anyday.

then it wasn't a mistake, you just weren’t trying it early enough.


here's what I mean : windows 8 consumer preview was AWESOME. better than the release.

sadly it just remains a preview. you couldn't use it day to day because of it's now deprecated driver support and such.

apart from the aesthetics and the crap boot time in comparison, windows 8 wasn't that different.

edit more on this here: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...h-latest-pa-version.64770/page-2#post-1015005

It's a joke, because he often says "Get out" randomly to people who disagree with him.

Anyway, what do you mean windowed and unwindowed start menus? Do you mean Windows 8's metro screen? Personally it was just way to cumbersome to me, I mean it'd be great if it were a secondary bit, but I much prefer to actually have a small and quick start button that doesn't take up my entire screen 90% of the time.

The start menu opens up instantly in either case, at least with the Windows 10 preview.

can you spam the windows key on your keyboard and the menu won't miss a single one of those beats?

can you hit windows +"S" + enter in under a second and have skype start up?

that's how I used the metro menu in 8.

I didn't have it on screen as a result. too fast for windows to bother or it actually loaded at least the background but my eyes didn't catch it.


I like things that work under extreme conditions, and this fit the bill.

it was synaptic from linux finally making it's way into windows.

(plus I have a secondary monitor so metro was still a "window" to me (you could click and drag the top to bring it to the other screen))

Actually yes, in windows 10 you can. Except the search is laggy atm, but I blame it on it being a preview.

"yes except"? can you or can you not?

I doubt you can as this more graphically taxing method led windows xp vista and seven to be unable to.

Okay, so you can spam the windows button and it will never miss, and you can press the windows button and type s and enter and it'll open up steam in my case, however typing in a full word at the moment in the search bar is unusually laggy, or it fluctuates. One keypress though? Very quick.

i'm talking about executing steam in under a second. (executing, "starting" not it be done loading)

Ill wait till the official full release then

Remember Tatsu you were comparing 7 an older OS to 8, a newer one. Eight is newer and due to that is more likely to be better optimized, in fact you can even see that in the fact it uses a smidge less RAM than seven did, 10 seems quick as well, at least from the preview so far.

Yes I know, I might as well record myself doing it, haha. With Steam not open I can press the windows key and type s then press enter and it will "execute" steam.exe, even before the search results show up!