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Windows 9 leak shows return of start menu. But is it enough?

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No ! (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-19 22:20 (#2K2)

Betteridge.

Re: No ! (Score: 1)

by skarjak@pipedot.org on 2014-07-20 00:38 (#2K4)

Betteridge's law makes life so simple.

In this case, I'm not sure why anyone should be excited about an update that makes it easier to ignore new features. They still have a very schizophrenic interface. And that start menu is a mess.

I'll stick to linux where I can decide what window manager or desktop environment I'll use.

Re: No ! (Score: 1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-20 15:29 (#2KA)

While it is by no means my intention to woo anyone AWAY from linux, it is worth pointing out that you've always had options for replacing the standard windows GUI at least back to the late 90s if not earlier. Two I had experience with years back were Litestep (and holy hell was this thing a resource hog) and BB4Win, which was actually quite pleasant to use, and was pretty strictly based on the Blackbox wm for *nix.

That Microsoft has sought to sweep these under the rug rather than nurture the further development of alternative WM's however has a lot to do with all the grumbling. When Unity came out as the default wm for Ubuntu, the move wasn't to another OS, as it was for many dealing with Windows 8, but rather simply to one of the many wm alternatives available. Modularity is absolutely a strength that Microsoft would do best to recognize before it's too late.

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