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Russell wrote:When Windows 10 is released, you can upgrade for free from Windows 8 any time and from Windows 7 for the first year after release.
Now waiting for Windows 10. When will it come?
kurogane wrote: Possibly the worst working, hardest to use and most annoying piece of Shitware I have ever encountered
chibaka wrote:Recent interwebs investigation has shown that I am not alone with this frustration, one common cause being HP install too much bloatware. That and apparently drivers are out of date. It was while trying to remove some bloat that I got the blue screen. Anyway, took ages but it's working now... If I can't get better performance, it's going back.
chibaka wrote:As for windows 10 being free, if it's anything like the turd that is Windows 8/8.1, they can fucking keep it, free upgrade or not...
chokonen888 wrote:I've got 8.1 running across 6 different machines and everything has been smooth sailing for me??
Samurai_Jerk wrote:chokonen888 wrote:I've got 8.1 running across 6 different machines and everything has been smooth sailing for me??
Yeah, since I fixed the bug it's been fine. I still think the UI sucks balls though.
That bug was really fucking annoying. It prevented me from adding the English-language interface
wagyl wrote:I hate to sound like all those Linux fans but I've got to say that the end of support for XP was the best thing that happened to me, since it got me involved enough to look at the Linux options. Sure, it is a bit of a learning curve but so is going to 8.1, and it is not as though you can port easily from XP to 8.1 anyway. You can't beat the price, especially with Microsoft looking like they are really really interested in shifting people to a subscription model. I will admit that some software availability is lacking, but if your computer use is e-mail, internet, word processing and spreadsheets, photo editing, internet telephony, you are covered completely.
Russell wrote:wagyl wrote:I hate to sound like all those Linux fans but I've got to say that the end of support for XP was the best thing that happened to me, since it got me involved enough to look at the Linux options. Sure, it is a bit of a learning curve but so is going to 8.1, and it is not as though you can port easily from XP to 8.1 anyway. You can't beat the price, especially with Microsoft looking like they are really really interested in shifting people to a subscription model. I will admit that some software availability is lacking, but if your computer use is e-mail, internet, word processing and spreadsheets, photo editing, internet telephony, you are covered completely.
But won't Windows 10 be for free?
random interwebs question wrote:Unfortunately, on my PC was pre installed Windows 8.1 Single Language (BR Portuguese) and I can't change the "display language" from BR-PT to US English because don't have any options; for that obvious reason, indeed. So, please: how can I install a new "display language" onto Windows 8.1 Single Language version?
kurogane wrote:One serious fear I have is the compatibility issue: does Linus' word processing, etc. mesh seamlessly with the dominant OS' and software packages? Last year I had another of those MojiBake Matsuri events with a very large file I had written in MS Word and they had unloaded on Mac ware. That was 2014. I simply cannot do that sort of thing anymore, which is why I folded my Mac and moved to PC in the first place.
chibaka wrote:I have this on my Ubuntu PC, and that OS cost me a grand total of..... fuck all.
wagyl wrote:One of your options, if you are happy to void your warranty, is to just install Ubuntu on your new machine.
chibaka wrote:wagyl wrote:One of your options, if you are happy to void your warranty, is to just install Ubuntu on your new machine.
It's the wife's, not mine. My only reason for wanting English UI is for troubleshooting when she has problems. Read Japanese she can, fix `puters she can not. Her old, but still working ASUS machine is J Win 7, no problem with it except no battery. I could navigate around that if it had the Klingon version of the OS. This 8.1 shite on the other hand.......
And she agrees it's slow.
chibaka wrote:wagyl wrote:One of your options, if you are happy to void your warranty, is to just install Ubuntu on your new machine.
It's the wife's, not mine. My only reason for wanting English UI is for troubleshooting when she has problems. Read Japanese she can, fix `puters she can not. Her old, but still working ASUS machine is J Win 7, no problem with it except no battery. I could navigate around that if it had the Klingon version of the OS. This 8.1 shite on the other hand.......
And she agrees it's slow.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:That's main reason I like to have the UI in English. Doing the trouble shooting takes at least twice as long if I do it in Japanese. You can change the UI to English for free but you need to install a language pack which you can download from MS. If it's not installing then you may have a bug in your system.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... y-language
If I remember correctly, installing the US English language pack also changed my keyboard to English setting by default (for example no more Shift+7 to get an apostrophe), so I had to change the setting of the keyboard back to Japanese.
kurogane wrote:trying to figure out where the hyphen goes in the katakana term can be really aggravating
Samurai_Jerk wrote:You can change the UI to English for free but you need to install a language pack which you can download from MS. If it's not installing then you may have a bug in your system.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... y-language
Russell wrote:I tried that in the past, installing such a "free" language pack, but I got a message that I needed some premium version of Windows for that. WTF, isn't Windows 7 Professional not enough already?
The only reason I still use Windows is because of PowerPoint, for which I rely heavily on animations for my presentations. But preparing those has become much more a pain in the ass since its new "user friendly" UI was adopted (was that since 2009?). Preparing PPT slides now takes me twice the time it did before. Word is not as bad, but I still do not like its UI.
Thanks Steve Balmer. They should infect you with Ebola.
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