Baggy shirt, stringy hair, not even a smile on her face. She looks like she's about to put a Chloroseptic sheet in her mouth.
Compare with the Windows 95 launch:
Or better yet, this ad from Telex:
Posted on 07/09/2012 8:27:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like I said, 8 reminds em of the Microsoft Bob adventure.
All it needs next is a talking animated paperclip and a guide avatar that greets you when you sign in.
And the metro interface still sucks.
It reminds me of something Andy Warhol ‘painted’.
Oh.. I have NOT tested Win8.. I didn’t like it from the ‘get’go’. something is wrong there :p
7 was the last I tested (even Vista was pretty good in the RS stage.. most drivers were there.. Win7 was awsome.. had drivers during install.. better than most Linux paks)..
LMAO :) (we were typing at same time, I guess) :)
No idea what the ‘Bob’ adventure is.. but I did hate trying to get rid of the talking paper-clip.. :p I guess it would have assisted many here in Japan.. but it only irritated me :p I was happy to walk them through what to do without the paper-clip (or the talking dolphin, not sure if that is Japan specific)..
I don’t see how they had any other choice — Apple is pwning the education-age market. A portable OS will help — a little — given the vast number of legacy boxes out there...
Microsoft Bob...
*Groan*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_bob
The wikipoedia page about it.
It was a horrid attempt to do away with the familiar windows interface and go to a graphical interface.
Like Metro.
It was not well received.
Of course, the true believers went all out zealot on people over it.
And the people who didn’t fall for hype and advertising said, “Hey, this really bites!”
what thumb drive??
Sounds great to me. And they say Microsoft doesn’t push the industry forward.
Ah.. lol, thought it was something recent... I was still DOS when 3.11 came out... (MSDoS 6.2, I think). I had, if I remember correctly, 11 floppies (3.5) to install 3.1... then (with BBS support), you could upgrade... :p
ANYWAY.. LONG ago (kids today would have NO idea what it took :/) I had actually made contact with shortwave to Australia.. before it had been public :p
Yeah, Vista in the beta stage and test release stage was a nice OS.
Then the release came and..
Well..
I had it brick the laptop after one particular Windows Update.
Lovin’ Vista, honest.. I can’t keep that up.
OUCH... wish I was there too look at the HDD :/
No, today’s youth are used to high download speeds and such.
Had a nephew ask me what pentiums we had when I was growing up.
I mentioned the PET16 and the VIC20, they looked at me like I was sprouting three heads.
Kind of OT here.. but it is like comparing REAL PC power to consoles... WTF?! guiding a toon around with a ‘THUMB’.. compared to real control from the keys on a keyboard?!? realistic?, no... but getting easy-win compared to strategic?!
Sadly.. for the old school gamers, such as myself, ... consoles are taking over.. and the game market are making console games and ‘porting’ them to PCs... pathetic :/
IF, I have the $$ and graphic skills.. I would make a company to specifically go for PC games.. I think this would be like a bottle rocket now.. PC gamers (non-lamers) would shott beyond the sky for that.. We are all tired of prots (X^Box, PsP, Etc..)
Crtap.. what am I saying.. I am almost 50yo :p
:p
Game market is still there.. sadly, the younger ones are looking in the WRONG direction.. ...
EASIER is NOT better
ok.. need some sleep.. sorry for the rant.
I see your point about the Linux “gurus”. Still I don’t know how you fundamentally change the culture. Highly technical fields or communities are probably always going to be that way to some extent. Communities of classic car restorers, or of ancient Greek translators, or of AutoCad users. I don’t know it seems like some of this stuff is unavoidable.
I think a lot of the message boards try to maintain at least a civil tone - I frequent fedoraforum.org for example and I see more civility than not. Maybe not of warm and fuzzies but no open flame wars either.
There sort of will always be a disconnect between the experienced user that insists that a questioner RTFM before posing a question and a relatively inexperienced user who maybe tried to RTFM but couldn’t make sense of it because - well because man pages are basically impossible to read until you’ve been dealing with this stuff for a pretty long while.
But I don’t think that the model is fundamentally broken - I simply think that the linux community will figure it out. For example I don’t use Ubuntu but when I go to Ubuntu websites I see way more instructions in the form of graphical sequence of steps than I might see for other distros. Eventually, I think the right levels of support will evolve if the demand is there - everything from N00b to expert.
I resurrected it, but it hasn’t been the same.
I have a spare drive to throw into it, and Win7 is going onto it.
“I will ALWAYS hate Mac...”
I hate to say it, but I have to agree with you. I wanted a Mac a few years ago, even drooled over a few keyboards. But when the iBad came out they went all Dr Evil on us. Now they are obsessed with locking up everything. I will never rely on a system that I cannot control what software is on it. Sad... they have made such strides against Windows!
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“sometimes, maybe, there would be much better tech support here than on (even specific) Linux forums..”
Maybe the Freeper Linux users need to start our own tag, used just for tech support, like ‘linuxsupport’ ?
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By the way, on your Mint Maya thread last week I recommended two low-resource Linux window managers, Awesome-WM and Xmonad, but said they were difficult to work with. Scratch that! I saw this discussion the other day on Hacker News and made a mental note to give you the link:
goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214800
The posters give a lot of links to Linux window managers I’ve never heard of. This one — http://i3-wm.org/ — looks AWESOME and much easier to work with. Enjoy!
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