Submission + - Here's why Windows 8 is crap, and how it wasted my time for nothing. (fedoraproject.org)
lagi writes: With Windows 8 to be released soon, I'm sure some slashdot windows users (as primary OS) asked them selves, "Is it time to install some nice Linux distro and dodge the pain?" Well, after using Windows 7 since it was released and trying the Windows 8 RC for over two months, i came to a conclusion, it's defensibly the time! After all, I did the same when Windows 98 came out, so i didn't feel the pain of neither ME or XP, and Windows 2000 was great as secondary system.
I don't like Windows 8 and i don't want "Metro" start screen or however it's called — the old start menu worked slow and nicely, I don't want pointy window corners (or at least wanna have the ability to choose), don't need a slow Task Manager that looks too much like "System Monitor", don't need 3487 types of dialog interfaces, don't need a "cool" progress bar that shows copy progress but never shows the right time, don't want MS to take over my facebook account and not let me unbind it and I certainly don't want to pay any money for something i don't own (especially when I can have Linux for free).
I decided installing Fedora 17 on my new SSD, and connect Windows HD to SATA slot #2. I'm actually using Mageia 2 @ work, and it's really nice and works kinda well, but I always liked the RedHat way, been using it's flavors since 98~. so after being very disappointed from Fedora (15-16) and Gnome 3 combination, i wanted to give it another try. I downloaded the 600MB~ Live image, put it on USB, and installed Fedora, from within Fedora, the whole process including configuration screens took less then 30 min, no errors, all devices detected including my unknown wifi adapter, and my machine fully booted in 10 secs without any tweaks, and Gnome 3.4 is actually not so bad, I was super happy.
Until I tried rebooting back to Windows.
Fedora installed GRUB2 on MBR of the new disk (Windows 8 boot option was added automatically pointing to sdb1), of course when i chosen it Windows went insane, "like wtf you're doing ?!!", and rebooted my PC right away.
I figured out the install didn't configure GRUB right for win8, so i manually change bios boot back to windows hd, booted again, without asking anything it went into this strange "automatic repair" mode... asking me if i what restore to last point? ... well i said "no!", cause i didn't understand what it will actually do ... but it started preforming repairs anyway... I have no idea what it was doing to my poor (non-SSD) hd for like 30 min, when it finished (?) an encouraging message was displayed saying "sorry, we couldn't repair your system" with just one option "shutdown" ... so i did. then i booted again, and just like i expected, windows booted up just fine like nothing happened.
I don't like Windows 8 and i don't want "Metro" start screen or however it's called — the old start menu worked slow and nicely, I don't want pointy window corners (or at least wanna have the ability to choose), don't need a slow Task Manager that looks too much like "System Monitor", don't need 3487 types of dialog interfaces, don't need a "cool" progress bar that shows copy progress but never shows the right time, don't want MS to take over my facebook account and not let me unbind it and I certainly don't want to pay any money for something i don't own (especially when I can have Linux for free).
I decided installing Fedora 17 on my new SSD, and connect Windows HD to SATA slot #2. I'm actually using Mageia 2 @ work, and it's really nice and works kinda well, but I always liked the RedHat way, been using it's flavors since 98~. so after being very disappointed from Fedora (15-16) and Gnome 3 combination, i wanted to give it another try. I downloaded the 600MB~ Live image, put it on USB, and installed Fedora, from within Fedora, the whole process including configuration screens took less then 30 min, no errors, all devices detected including my unknown wifi adapter, and my machine fully booted in 10 secs without any tweaks, and Gnome 3.4 is actually not so bad, I was super happy.
Until I tried rebooting back to Windows.
Fedora installed GRUB2 on MBR of the new disk (Windows 8 boot option was added automatically pointing to sdb1), of course when i chosen it Windows went insane, "like wtf you're doing ?!!", and rebooted my PC right away.
I figured out the install didn't configure GRUB right for win8, so i manually change bios boot back to windows hd, booted again, without asking anything it went into this strange "automatic repair" mode... asking me if i what restore to last point?