The only substantial thing that I noticed changed between Win XP and Win 7, is that I could hit the Winkey and then type the application I wanted and hit enter. That was good, I liked that. Nothing else was an improvement, it was just more relearning where the eff they had moved things (which fortunately, you could get around using the Winkey type-to-search thing).
The only difference I noticed between Win 7 and Win 8 is they have some stupid tablet-like screen thing that opens first. Why the fuck do I want that? It's a laptop, not a tablet. And those tablet apps don't even open into the taskbar, they exist in a realm of their own, and you can't alt-tab between them and normal applications. There is no other noticeable difference, except I think they added a built-in virus scanner with an effectiveness ranked below every other virus scanner in existence.
The only reason I ever end up with these windows OSs is that they come with the laptop. I just want it to work and not fuck me around. I refuse to use Ubuntu etc, because it is a clumsy piece of crap, and the attitude of the borderline-aspergers linux fanboys on the linux forums is "oh you want to do that? why would you want to do that? don't do that" or "oh you want to do that trivial thing? ok do this 10-step process involving three line long terminal commands and system file changes in a text editor".
I also still use an ancient version of MS Office - barely anything changes each time, so why fuck around with changing stuff.
The only difference I noticed between Win 7 and Win 8 is they have some stupid tablet-like screen thing that opens first. Why the fuck do I want that? It's a laptop, not a tablet. And those tablet apps don't even open into the taskbar, they exist in a realm of their own, and you can't alt-tab between them and normal applications. There is no other noticeable difference, except I think they added a built-in virus scanner with an effectiveness ranked below every other virus scanner in existence.
The only reason I ever end up with these windows OSs is that they come with the laptop. I just want it to work and not fuck me around. I refuse to use Ubuntu etc, because it is a clumsy piece of crap, and the attitude of the borderline-aspergers linux fanboys on the linux forums is "oh you want to do that? why would you want to do that? don't do that" or "oh you want to do that trivial thing? ok do this 10-step process involving three line long terminal commands and system file changes in a text editor".
I also still use an ancient version of MS Office - barely anything changes each time, so why fuck around with changing stuff.