Gramp's shop wrote:

Brought home a new laptop today with Windows 8 installed. First
impression: they let a few nutjobs take over the design of this OS when
the A-team was out to lunch. Nothing is intuitive. Simple things, like
moving a file from one folder to another, require one to use Explorer.
Even "my computer" no longer resides on the desktop. There are two
interfaces -- the tiles version and one that kinda mimics the familiar XP
version. The former is loaded with a lot of junk.

It's going to take me hours to get this machine set up -- hours that I
could spend more enjoyably in the shop.

BTW, this is being written on my old machine, which needs to be returned
to my employer come retirement date (May 3).

Larry


Which is one of the primary reasons I run Linux (PCLinuxOS to be exact).
The other reason is the simple fact that it is totally free AND I can check
ou the OS before I install it.

Deb