Call me crazy but I genuinely loved the aesthetic and design on Windows 8.1 just hated the execution of it. I also loved my Windows Phone, shame it had no apps on it though
To be completely honest, I like 8.1 - I still like the aesthetic of it, but if you don't, it still could be useful: with the right tweaks you have more features and updates than 7 and you can recreate its look with transformation packs
For a PC that still runs on a processor like the old Athlon that originally runs Vista Windows 8.1 is a good os to run a little modern apps without performance loss like in Windows 10 ;)
8.1 sucks. It's just a worse Windows 10. Windows 8 was amazing. Snappy, efficient, no redundant Start button, full screen Start menu so you don't have to scroll.
@@RobloxianX but it's a fact that more taskbar space to pin programs is good, that utilizing your screen estate is smart, and that unnecessary scrolling is... unnecessary. It's also a fact that at just 40 processes a Windows 8 install runs laps around a 150 process Windows 7/10 install or a 200+ process "fresh" Windows 11 install. These are all objective reasons Windows 8 is better than not just 11, but all other Windows versions. What opinions have I given?
It’s fascinating that Windows 8.1 has always felt like an ordinary release of the time, but with how detrimental it feels to use modern day Windows 10+ on anything that isn’t of gaming spec, it feels like a luxury to use in comparison.
Yeah, windows 8.1 by comparison to 10 just works so much faster. I thought that was why were supposed to have new software in the first place, it was supposedly better, now we only have it because software design has been invaded by EA, so they just find something good and make it slightly worse until it becomes terrible and you have to do something about it or give up and accept whatever you're told. I didn't sign up to be kicked around.
The Start menu isn't gone. it just uses the whole screen to show you everything at a glance instead of forcing you to scroll through programs in a tiny square. How exactly is that a bad thing? Also, Windows 8 _is_ the most efficient Windows by far. It's snappier than 10, much snappier than 7, and compared to 11... well anything is snappy compared to 11.
I had the same issues on Windows 8.1 with legacy update and managed to fix it by installing these updates manually: KB2919442, KB2932046, KB2934018, KB2937592, KB2938439, KB2959977 and then the update to run last is KB2919255. I know its a hassle to do but this did actually work for me and i was able to update Windows normally. Hope this helps.
I still love Windows 8 after its support ended a few months ago. Thank you Windows 8, for all of the memories I had with you in Minecraft since 2016-2019, and for being a great OS on my laptop which I still use today. RIP Windows 8, you will be missed.
I used it in from november-2022 until february I got fucking tired of windows 10 but it worked on a secondary HDD it was fast and if you used it daily the interface would become familiar and very easy to use.
I love windows 8.1, I'm using it since 2014, the worst thing is lack of support, to use some new apps I need to use windows 10 vm... But still windows 8.1>>
Microsoft misunderstood and thought that touch screens and tablets were taking off, everyone would be using them, so they decided to make Windows touch screen friendly. The problem it didn't work well for desktop users. Many still use laptops that are non-touch screen using keyboard and mouse
They actually made the best interfacing for phones(having used a Lumia 635, the keyboard and navigation is better than Android or Apple) but did not have the app support. 8 was better in terms of security and some efficiency. The flat graphics were a downgrade.
You are not wrong about the UI being clunky on desktop/laptops with keyboard and mouse. Yes Microsoft should have had different versions one optimized for touch screen appliances, one optimized for keyboard/mouse appliances. (like Windows had Windows, Windows RT, Windows embedded,etc). Windows 8/8.1 would have been more popular/loved. (I today use Linux. I would hate for my Linux desktop environment to resemble a smartphone UI and be optimized for touch screen. My pc is non touch screen). To be fair, Steve Ballmer"s dream (vision) was to have the same OS look, feel across all your Windows devices. Desktop PC at work. You come home from work, same environment is on your at home desktop PC, your laptop, your tablet (I think Microsoft called those Surface), and your phone which was on you most of the time. All would look the same, act very similar, and communicate to each other seamlessly. Sort of like an "ecosystem" but for Windows (similar to Apple's ecosystem for their devices). Like Steve or hate Steve, this was a good idea. It just ended up being poorly implemented. (Like many things are with Microsoft it seems). I did not have the "ecosystem", but I had a Windows 8/8.1 laptop, and a Nokia Windows phone (my first smartphone. Ran it 5 yrs. Only stopped because charging port broke loose, and due it being a well known Nokia issue, no parts existed to repair by time mine broke). The laptop and the phone operated the same (phone was like a mini Win 8 computer. The laptop and the phone communicated and synced with each other seamlessly. Phone communicated with my Win 7 desktop computer, seamlessly. (I figured out how to do this between my Linux/Win 7 desktop, Win 10 laptop, Linux laptop, Android phone. I "reimplemented Steve Ballmer's dream on my own devices- it was a cool project to do during the 'sickness' incident of recent past). I use an Android phone today. While I love Android and use it well, if Windows phone were still a thing, I would opt for it over Android (sorry Google) any day of the week. We liked to laugh about and make fun of Steve Ballmer. Given some of recent day Microsoft decisions, I myself say things weren"t as bad with ol' Steve as we made it out to be.
Maybe it's lagging it is because you used VM ware plus your using a really big screen maybe if you use smaller monitor and use the os on real machine it wont lag much with low graphics
I just realized that most of your videos that I watched are about doing hackintosh but the opposite direction I couldn't hate on Windows 8 cause that's pretty much the oldest [not the first] OS I've ever had access to [that isn't from a virtual computer] The mailman has been arrested
"Around here we do things legally" *Literally launches a pirated version of GTA IV in the Windows 7 video* (Don't ask how I know what the pirated version looks like lmao)
@@makhirtechThe nice thing about Internet Archive is (usually) it allows you to view the contents of ISO images, so before downloading you can determine whether it’s an official untouched image or if it was tampered with for any reason.
I HATE IT! I would use xp, 7 or 10, 11 my second computer is on xp full activated, all drivers and fully updated with legacy update and of Corse classic games
Long time ago I saw a comment that Windows 8 feels like banging head against concrete wall. Windows 8.1 is better, it is like banging head against wooden wall.
like, i didn't have internet back then so i didn't know a lot but, every single computer i saw had windows 7, and then i started seeing windows 10 computers, i had never ever seen a windows 8 computer anywhere
I am really sorry @makhirtech , I provided misinformation, and you replied to me, at first I searched that on google bard, Google bard said that we can, then I did some research, and found out that it is not possible I'm really really sorry ! 😢, I appriciate for the reply !
