Fortunately for my Lenovo laptop, upgrade integration went smoothly and nicer then I had expected. I were able to do the upgrade even preserving previous side by side installations and master boot records with an existing Linux distro. The value for the operating system excellent likewise. The Windows 8 user interface may take some time for me to get used to but in fairness the same difficulties could have been much the same for Ubuntu's Unity. Its seems the interface reminds of the integration of a tablet or alternate peripherals culture. Here relative the browser based interfaces, laptop and desktops such users might seem to benefit less from the start menus window 8 integration messaging, email, and peoples apps, for instance, but in comparison it seems even on the Linux side of distribution, umbrella messaging app integration s appears to be a trend. Honestly, in the some many years of staying away from facebook or twitter, I succumbed and signed up for accounts, alongside some others not withstanding Tumblr. I am too poor, of course, to work extensively with peripherals: smartphones, tablets and anything else that could serve to benefit greater here, but for the value I couldn't complain. Aside from the start menu and other Ubnutu"lensing" like aspects offered here, the overall desktop experience isn't so much a stretch from the windows 7 interface. Pulling up applications by the way is a bit different...or at least I determined this indirectly using a pull the start menu > right mouse button > hit all apps combination to do the trick of finding apps not immediately listed in start menu. Likewise if you manage to pull the search tab from the right side bar. Here there is a locus trick with the mouse pointer that I hadn't figured out...if there were more of a tablet or surface like touch elegance found with the mouse pointer, I might be more dazzled by this otherwise. If you were expecting for elation here with the desktop, or laptop that hadn't resembled a tablet, the value I think brings more here relative the upgrade from windows 7 to 8 that seems more so and so for a really new experience. Generally speaking I hadn't lost anything to my recollection in the transfer of data and applications, and there again these days now with ever increasing use of web based applications and online storage filling the role of computing needs, I've found less hassle in moving to a new operating system, and otherwise, mostly I was prepared to lose my Linux distro for the hassle of a new side by side attempted installation, this time windows seemed a little more friendly to the alternate operating system presiding on my laptop.
Lastly, this brings a theory to mind and why some users absolutely disliked the Unity interface and jumped ship from Ubuntu to Mint which retains some of the more traditional and conservative desktop UI. It would seem windows 8 parses between a new design philosophy and the tradition having been the mainstay which were the desktop itself, I actually liked the new windows 8 start interface, the old desktop still reminds that something of previous cultural traditions are hard to die, or at least something of a resistance to the idea that the larger screens would vacate old desktop models completely. The application switcher (pull this by toggling the thumb start link then on the same vertical axis hoover the mouse to the north of this location) might have hinted at possibilities here: forgoing all sorts of potential application screen clutter and thumb tabs that scarcely remain to be understood...okay more likely with the added tab too many in the browser. Honestly I would have been even happier if my windows 8 seemed more then ever like an elegant tablet, however having the mouse peripheral driving the interface in some manner. Maybe a bit much for many users vested in conservative traditions, but then the traditional desktop has been there and if windows 8 looked looked so much like its pre cursor what could one say of the next desktop generation?
Lastly, this brings a theory to mind and why some users absolutely disliked the Unity interface and jumped ship from Ubuntu to Mint which retains some of the more traditional and conservative desktop UI. It would seem windows 8 parses between a new design philosophy and the tradition having been the mainstay which were the desktop itself, I actually liked the new windows 8 start interface, the old desktop still reminds that something of previous cultural traditions are hard to die, or at least something of a resistance to the idea that the larger screens would vacate old desktop models completely. The application switcher (pull this by toggling the thumb start link then on the same vertical axis hoover the mouse to the north of this location) might have hinted at possibilities here: forgoing all sorts of potential application screen clutter and thumb tabs that scarcely remain to be understood...okay more likely with the added tab too many in the browser. Honestly I would have been even happier if my windows 8 seemed more then ever like an elegant tablet, however having the mouse peripheral driving the interface in some manner. Maybe a bit much for many users vested in conservative traditions, but then the traditional desktop has been there and if windows 8 looked looked so much like its pre cursor what could one say of the next desktop generation?
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