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Originally Posted by Nathanael
I'm not sure how you could claim that going from one mouse-driven Start-button-centric UI to another is more traumatizing than moving from that to a touch-oriented Start-button-less screenful of boxes.
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I'm not that visual. So, for me:
Windows 7 - Press Winkey, start typing the name of the application you want.
Windows 8 - Press Winkey, start typing the name of the application you want.
The trauma I was talking about with Linux was thus not the user interface difference. It is the contrast between Windows 8 recognizing all my hardware instantly and automatically, vs. Linux behaving inconsistently with both my on-chip Intel HD video and my keyboard. The keyboard was not on the long list provided by my distribution software. One day I will, perhaps with the help of the OpenSUSE forum members, get it working, but for now I am using another keyboard.
Windows 7 also has trauma. Not in the user interface being a problem, but concerning security and updates. I just experienced this a few minutes ago, making sure my wife's computer was up to date. (For example, I got a message saying that system -- set to auto-update -- could not install an "important update." I clicked that dialog box and it said all important updates were installed!)
How difficult it is to update Linux, I guess I will see when OpenSUSE goes from 12.2 to 12.3 next year.
I've only had Windows 8 for a month, but I've put a lot of software on it, and it's been close to trouble free. Close enough, that I'm going to declare Win8 the first desktop OS I've seen since the Apple II that is truly a consumer product -- you don't need a computer maven to step in and help you once in a while. (The Mac OS may also be a consumer product in this way -- I have too little experience with it to say.)
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The UI paradigms of Windows 7 and KDE (I have KDE on my desktop, Win7 on my laptop) are vastly more similar than those of Windows 7 and Metro
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The word vastly is vastly overused in tech journalism. No need for us amateur pundits to adopt the bad habits of the pros
I also use KDE. If you include the method for installing software as part of the user interface, and I don't know why you wouldn't, KDE is different. For example, going to the latest version of Calibre is identical on Win7 and Win8, and different from either on KDE.
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both are simply variations on the universal UI paradigms that have dominated computing since the mid-90s, be it Windows, Mac or Linux.
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Yes, and a tile is just a bigger icon. My $90 wide-format Acer LCD monitor fits more than my old CRT, so it made sense to expand the icons into something with a bit more info. And I can still use Winkey-D to get to the old desktop.
The Win8 Store? I ignore it. If others like it, good for them. The big changes for Win8 were faster boot, secure by default, revamped backup/Storage Spaces and, it appears to me after one month, greater stability.