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[koaftder]

No, I don't have a spare system that meets its requirements and I hate VMs.

You've been railing about this for months, if not an entire year or longer and you've never even tried it? :rolleyes:

[koaftder]

Correct. I didn't have a spare system and I hated VMs then, too.

I ask again: is there some kind of mysterious revelation, incommunicable in mortal tongues, that is obtained by running the demo version that somehow makes these design decisions not horrid?

Yea, the start menu is gone and has been replaced with the tile screen. Other than that it's Windows as usual. Not much difference from Win 7. I never use the start menu anyway, so it's removal didn't bother me. [win]-r to launch programs or just tap [win] and start typing to find stuff just like on win 7. Didn't bother with the metro apps, have no interest in them on the desktop. Looks nice for tablets though.

[koaftder]

They should raise the entrance fee to $1,000 to keep the shovel ware out of the marketplace. The Apple ecosystem is choking on it.

[koaftder]

Given that they're proudly announcing 4700 free apps, I think shovelware is what they're counting on...

That's about how many apps are approved on the iOS app store every 10 days.

[koaftder]

Cygwin :furious:
 
F*** Cygwin.

Seriously. It's a bloat monster. If you need to do *nix work, much better to just run what you need in a VM. If you just need bash and some common tools, msys is a lot easier to deal with.