... and I like it! Crazy I know!
Yesterday I installed dual boot for Windows 8. I got my hands on Enterprise Edition, 90 day trial version.
The installation went without a hitch. I just mounted the ISO in Daemon Tools and hit Install button.
I did not have too much time to play with it, but it is very fast on my 5 year old machine ([email protected], 4 gig RAM) and it boots a lot faster than Windows 7 or Vista.
What I like so far:
- As mentioned above, the speed and responsiveness of the system.
I opened up a bunch of things and apps just to see how it would handle it and everything was nice and smooth. The animations and fancy screen transitions were still very fast and had no jerkiness to them.
- The search function, although unintuitive at first, is actually pretty good. If you are in the start menu, the search looks at everything on your computer, but if you open up an app, it will automatically search within that app and you can always choose where to search at any time.
- The general look and feel of the system is just fantastic and highly refined. Apps look nice and clean and are easily arranged on the screen. The metro interface, although different, is highly customizable and the tiles can give the user instant info to things like weather, stocks, news feeds, sports etc. without a single click of the mouse. Similar to Widgets in Android system.
- My wife tried it and she likes it as well. She never saw Windows 8 before and I never helped her out, but she was able to navigate the new interface quite easily. She easily figured out how to flip between apps, despite lack of Minimize Button or the taskbar. She's not a computer person and based on that I think the transition might be easier than the experts predict.
Things that may be annoying, at least at first:
- Some apps run in Metro interface, while others run in Desktop interface. It's pretty weird, since you are always taken to the Metro screen and you would expect for things to be run from there all the time.
- Desktop interface is separate from Metro interface. If you open up IE window in metro and another one in Desktop, those are two separate IE windows running. This could be particularly annoying when looking for instruction on the internet because you will have to flip between interfaces. A work around would be to just stay within Desktop interface.
One more thing I noticed that is pretty weird. I allocated a 20GB partition for this. After the installation I had about 5GB of free space left. When I had a bunch of things running both in Metro and Desktop I noticed that my 20GB partition was running out of room. I had about 700MB left, while my RAM usage was only 1.8GB out of 4.
Discuss.
Yesterday I installed dual boot for Windows 8. I got my hands on Enterprise Edition, 90 day trial version.
The installation went without a hitch. I just mounted the ISO in Daemon Tools and hit Install button.
I did not have too much time to play with it, but it is very fast on my 5 year old machine ([email protected], 4 gig RAM) and it boots a lot faster than Windows 7 or Vista.
What I like so far:
- As mentioned above, the speed and responsiveness of the system.
I opened up a bunch of things and apps just to see how it would handle it and everything was nice and smooth. The animations and fancy screen transitions were still very fast and had no jerkiness to them.
- The search function, although unintuitive at first, is actually pretty good. If you are in the start menu, the search looks at everything on your computer, but if you open up an app, it will automatically search within that app and you can always choose where to search at any time.
- The general look and feel of the system is just fantastic and highly refined. Apps look nice and clean and are easily arranged on the screen. The metro interface, although different, is highly customizable and the tiles can give the user instant info to things like weather, stocks, news feeds, sports etc. without a single click of the mouse. Similar to Widgets in Android system.
- My wife tried it and she likes it as well. She never saw Windows 8 before and I never helped her out, but she was able to navigate the new interface quite easily. She easily figured out how to flip between apps, despite lack of Minimize Button or the taskbar. She's not a computer person and based on that I think the transition might be easier than the experts predict.
Things that may be annoying, at least at first:
- Some apps run in Metro interface, while others run in Desktop interface. It's pretty weird, since you are always taken to the Metro screen and you would expect for things to be run from there all the time.
- Desktop interface is separate from Metro interface. If you open up IE window in metro and another one in Desktop, those are two separate IE windows running. This could be particularly annoying when looking for instruction on the internet because you will have to flip between interfaces. A work around would be to just stay within Desktop interface.
One more thing I noticed that is pretty weird. I allocated a 20GB partition for this. After the installation I had about 5GB of free space left. When I had a bunch of things running both in Metro and Desktop I noticed that my 20GB partition was running out of room. I had about 700MB left, while my RAM usage was only 1.8GB out of 4.
Discuss.