Using Windows 8 in 2024 What can you still do? 

I think windows 8 deserved to be forgotten, windows 8.1 is just ultimately the better successor of it

Windows Phone was actually good. There were no ads, it was extremely fast, responsive and user friendly. I still have a Windows Phone, but it's useless due to the servers being down.

To be honest, I am one of few people who actually enjoyed using Windows 8 in general regardless of whether it's RTM or 8.1. Mainly because it was in my experience it was an extremely stable system and I rarely ever encountered any BSODs or lock ups. Unlike with some of my past experiences with Windows 7 and XP, where the system would BSOD or lock up quite often out of no where and without any warning. There again I think that was mainly due to driver issues and wasn't really the fault of the OSes themselves. Other than my experience with Windows 8 being really good, I like the idea that Microsoft went for. Whilst it doesn't suit a desktop OS, it's really not even that hard to use once you get used to it. I actually had been using Windows 8 as main OS since 2013. Although I pretty much moved on to using Windows 10 as my main OS now, officially as of this year. Although in a few years, i'll eventually have to move onto Windows 11.

The windows phone was a good idea. It has a unique UI, like windows 8, and they had good ideas. They were supposed to all link together, along with your Xbox I believe. It’s a shame it never worked.

8.1 is my favorite version of Windows, it was much lighter than 10 and could pretty easily be made to work more or less the same as 7 if need be. It really was great on a tablet especially, the touch experience, gestures, and animations are somehow _still_ better than both 10 and 11 It was also the seemingly the last time they had an actual QA team to fix bugs, 10.and 11 have so many inexplicable jitters and small bugs that just don't really happen to me on 7 and 8.

That's weird, Minecraft 1.20.4 installed perfectly for me just a few months ago. Ooh, another thing you could try is Blender. Windows 7 lost OFFICIAL-support and updates became 3rd party on git-hub. Windows 8 still fully supports modern Blender and no signs of cutting it off.

Great video. I have a 8.1 touchscreen Alienware lying around somewhere. It needs some care before I run it again but honestly on a touchscreen, it's not that bad.

Wow I never realized how much of windows 8 I forgot about, I think my brain blocked all memories of it because I absolutely hated having to upgrade to it from windows 7 at the time

microsoft is making the same mistake as windows 8 on windows 11, designing things to be touchscreen friendly & forcing that on desktop users. the amount of unnecessary padding and removal of anything compact is insanely annoying. they removed the option for a small taskbar (they also made the taskbar ~10px taller than win10), they bloated all the ui elements and gave them a billion percent more padding and rounding, spaced everything apart, generally everything is a waste of screen space. look how fucking massive the start menu is lol

Don't know why but this video reminds me of Michael MJD

Nice video man. On a full screen Metro app with a mouse and keyboard, it felt really dumb clicking at the top of the window and dragging it all the way down to close an app. On a touchscreen device like the Surface Pro or Surface RT, it makes a lot more sense swiping down with your finger. I feel as if the Start Screen makes so much more sense on a tablet as well. Would be cool if there was a small comeback of Windows 8 on something like the ROG Ally or Steam Deck. I never liked the traditional Windows UI on a tablet lol

Oh I can personally tell you what Windows 8 can do. A lot of things Windows 7 has completely left out: USB 3 drivers during installation, UEFI on 64 bit versions, NVME, Secure Boot, Turing Nvenc, and even supports more games... If Steam hadn't removed Windows 7&8 from support that is. That is unfortunate because I was wanting to play Doom Eternal on Windows 7 on my AMD APU. Oh well, Windows 10 will suffice for at least the testing portion before I switch over to Windows 8.1 with the Windows 7 B450 chipset.

and i love windows 8

That was cool showing Windows 8 instead of Windows 8.1, I think a lot of programs stopped supported 8 but still support 8.1 so might be worth looking at 8.1 one day too

I use Windows. 8.2 (The first windows 10 beta) and it’s really good, plus I get the start menu and windowed metro apps if I want

5:27 In Win8 Release Preview Aero is on by default, and the OS itself is free (the mechanism locking the OS is long broken).

As a person who daily drives windows 8 for everything except for editing and gaming, I'll say it's a completely usable OS as of 2024.

so basically kinda like windows 7 you can install security updates until 2023 (no esu) some softwares ended support for windows 7 earlier before windows 8 and uhh yeah I think that's it, overall a less bloated version of windows 10

It had some issues, but I liked using Windows 8 overall. Granted, I didn’t use the apps, but desktop software and there was a learning curve on how to find power user functionality. Still, it worked fine for me, overall.

I used win 8 for 2 years back then because my company laptop had it installed, it wasn't bad at all you can use it like windows 7 everything works like windows 7 once you got used to the new HUD and navigation 😅

I love Windows 8, it is so streamlined and visually appealing. Interaction with existing programs and apps was so streamlined. The problem is the users, they didn't get this work of art.

I wish I could use windows 8.1 as my main os. I really like the sounds in the os.

Great Vid

The theme engine contrast part still here in win 11 you need to do sift print screen (it is possibl eto changw which contrast is used) it is now classed as an eacceability feature

The Metro UI era (Windows 8/Windows Phone) was the best! I miss these times...

yooo i requested this 🔥

For anybody looking for the mouse fix for vmware:Edit > Preferences > Input, and from here change "Optimize mouse for games" from Automatic to Always. At least this is how it is in workstation 15. This will ensure that the cursor stays inside the vm, and you'll have to use ctrl+alt to get out.

my nostalgia belongs to windows xp for disk based gaming and youtube on xp was special

the theme engine is still a thing in windows 10. you can enable it in the personalization options under colors. for some reason they decided to make accent colors not apply by default

There's only rare few videos on RU-vid mobile that can be played in background without the premium subscription and this video of yours is one of them haha

I think the only chrome-based browser that still supports Win8 is yandex browser. Its latest version runs fine on Win8 rp.

I "upgraded" to 8.1 back in the Spring of 2014 and I find it bad because I (and many others) did everything we could to make it more like 7 with tools like Classic Shell. It was pretty much a slightly more modern looking Windows 7 after that though. I ignored pretty much all the Metro (full screen) apps since they were pretty much all awful. Early 2010s really was a weird time... all about tablets and everyone thought they would eventually succeed laptops altogether.

It wasn't bad. It just had a bad concept for the start menu. I used it for years on my Media Centre PC, with fewer problems than with Windows 7.

for minecraft the legacy launcher should work but if it doesnt you can use multimc or prism launcher

watcing this video on my old dell study laptop with windows 8.1 xD

Windows 8 and 8.1 were so bad that every time Windows forced me to do a major system update, it broke my laptop more and more with each update. Was super annoying having to run back updates every time I was auto forced to update to something that broke half my programs.

you should install video drivers it would work better

i am still running it

I am now using 8.1

I never use windows 8 which i hate this has no logo win but instead used old laptop windows 8.1 with win logo bottom, like it

There is still word pad on windows 11

If Steam is pushing the Linux route because people don't want to upgrade to a newer Windows then I have about had it with Valve and at this point would rather go back to Windows 7 or stay on Windows 10 because Windows 11 is starting to suck real bad with Microsoft deprecating the hell out of key features that make Windows useful. You can't even move the start menu at the top anymore after Windows 10 I might just switch to Linux Mint Cinnamon and strongly debating on it if Microsoft continues to deprecate useful software consider me a Linux user in the near future don't upgrade to Windows 11 I just used it and went straight back to Windows 10 I think Windows 10 will be the LAST WINDOWS I EVER USE and I am not joking all the useful shit in Windows 10 is gone on Windows 11 man what ever you guys do please don't upgrade I can't even pull the start menu to the top and hide it so I can run virtual machine making it a pain in the ass to use Windows 10 will be the last good Windows provided by Microsoft.

I only liked the animations and the sounds of windows 8/8.1

superium still work based on chromium

I think I am only person that skiped Winowds 10.

Never seen tabler modei windows,11

WordPad is still in Windows 11

Windows 8 was the first OS I ever used because my moms Acer had it installed.

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my friend mains a 8

I like windows 7 much better

I refused to go to Win 8, I completely skipped over it till Win 7 went out of service security wise then went to Win 10. Prefer to forget Windows 8 ever existed. Hell I have more fond memories of Windows Vista.

you literally have not use windows 11? why?

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