theres pretty much no difference between windows 8 and windows 7 with the UI and navigation stuff, you'll be able to get around just fine. You wont even need the start button after a while
If I need to open a program i just press WinKey + S and type in a part of the file name and it shows up
That could not possibly be further from the truth.
So lets start by just listing a few of the most annoying features of Windows 8.
- 1) Windows uses this fancy new Metro UI system, which effectively turns your PC into a tablet for some reason. There are some who would call this "not a problem." But I call that Stockholm syndrome. This UI can be extremely aggravating for a number of reasons: The first being that it prevents you from having more than one application open at a time. For example: You are using a desktop browser in an attempt to send off an e-mail, one of the e-mails requires that you find a specific file to read it, rather than having the window on the side open to find it in a matter of seconds, you have to completely stop what you're doing go into some magical Search app, then find the file, open it, read it, then close out of it since you cannot view it simultaneously, and send the e-mail.
- 2) Applications don't really ever close, this means once you start some special windows application, it remains open until the OS decides its time to shut it down temporarily to save CPU, even though the App is still not in. In other words its annoyingly inefficient if you don't even use the metro apps, because the metro interface itself still uses computer resources. Wasted Space.
- 3) The god damned interface is absurdly confusing for anyone used to a typical windows 7 OS. It took me around 20 minutes to figure out how to actually shut the stupid thing down, and I constantly found myself pressing the annoying fake start menu icon.
Not to mention the enormous litany of annoying glitches that, although some people have been spared, are utterly system-breaking. I know one such glitch my friend Nexus managed to run into while he was over at my house was that while he was running a full screen game, his processor's usage went up to around 100% Until he alt-tabbed, it wasn't even the game that was using the processing either. I've noticed this issue while just leaving the computer idle with task manager up, after a while I started to get an increase in the processing usage a lot of programs had until my computer fan whizzed into overdrive as it hit around 100% usage, I moved the mouse and clicked task manager and they immediately calmed down. (Keep in mind that Nexus's game glitch was a result of 8.1, after downgrading to 8; he fixed that problem. If you want to hear more about why 8.1 is cancer, talk to him, he's got a pretty nice list of complaints. Also for my problem, this was a fresh install without anything installed, so unless the OS by default has viruses in it, I can't really explain that besides bad programming/hardware integration.)
If you want my advice: if you can't find your way back to Windows 7, and don't feel like dealing with Linux; grab classic shell, and avoid the update to 8.1; it breaks more things than it fixes, Its more like a paint job over the many many cracks in the OS.
