They seemingly wanted to design the entire interface around touchscreen 2-in-1s. If you went in a Microsoft store around the time windows 8 came out, they were leaning really hard into the 2-in-1s. I got a surface pro 3 at that time that I used to take handwritten notes in school, and the windows 8 interface was honestly awesome with that use case. On my desktop PC, though, I held out updating from 7 until windows 10.
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CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 1 day agoThey lost me when they removed the start button on the left side of the taskbar in version 8.1 (I think it was) to… Be cool with the kids (I think 8.1 was supposed to be touch screen friendly)? I don’t even know, but I went back to Windows 7 for a long while.
The backlash with the start button was so huge that they put it back on the taskbar in Windows 10 (at least mine has it and is the reason I got Windows 10). I’m currently refusing to update to Windows 11, because it apparently crashes when playing certain video games and I’m not about to have the other trash bugs that come with it, which I’ve been seeing posted on Microsoft help forums when I search for Windows 10 related questions. Fuck that noise, I don’t want to deal with it.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Windows 8 removed the start button, 8.1 brought back most all of the “legacy” UI features (which still persist today).
CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
It might be. I remember buying a laptop at that time and it came with 8 and it annoyed me so dang much.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have had better luck with game compatibility using proton on linux than I had with win 11