This hilarious video explains why Windows 8 sucks [Video]
January 20, 2013 67
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Windows 8 has been out for a few months now. In that time, it has won over some people and distanced others. Brian Boyko is clearly in the latter group because he has created a bloody hilarious video explaining why Windows 8 sucks (in his opinion). While I have personally reserved judgement about Windows 8 until I actually use it for longer than a few minutes (although I am not looking forward to Start screen), I must admit the video is funny. Check it out (warning: the video uses some cuss words):
Hahaha…
[Thanks Col. Panek!]
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I have a new laptop with Windows 8. Here’s how I’m going to fix it. I am never buying a Microsoft product again, ever, no really NEVER. Apple here I come.
Whoever approved the production of Windows 8 should be fired. No, not just lose his job. I mean FIRED as on a BBQ grill, after being scewered with one of those little sticks that turns round and round to get all the sides good and charred. I’m not usually so prone to violent visions. But really, It took me an hour just to figure out that it takes about 5 steps just to shuit the shut the damn thing off! Really, you can’t have a button on the task bar that says “shut off”? And you have Menus that are invisible? “Charms” bars? Windows that hog the entire screen and no obvious way to get out of them? THIS is better? Well excuse my unenlightened self but I thought using a computer was supposed to be easy and fun, not annoying and impossible. Nothing about this new set up makes sense to me, and I am certainly not going to be able to teach my ol mom how to use it. This thing is going back to the store and if they won’t give my money back I’ll throw gas on it and watch it burn instead.
Or Ubuntu
[@Jeff] [@Jeff]
ditto that
I am truly an apple fan.. But this review is flawed in so many ways.
1.Random things just keep popping up: That is so absurd dude. You must be accidentally pressing the WINDOWS key or WIN+TAB.. there is no other reason why a metro app would pop out.
2.Difference between a swipe gesture and a scroll: Swipe is done from an edge pixel of the screen. You won’t touch a screen edge for scrolling, unless you are trying to scroll something from outside your screen, from like thin air, into your desktop. that is not how people use it. Same applies to the touchpad – swiping from border is diff from ‘swiping right’!
3. You’re blaming MS since your OEM did not put a sticker of the product key.. I guess you are not aware of the fact that a product key is INGRAINED in an activated OS. Google ‘how to know my windows product key’ and you’ll know. It is as easy as checking computer properties.
Personally I feel that there is no one right or wrong here and that Windows eight is based on simplicity… I like it that way.
Nice effort and cool video. Thanks!
What a great video. Windows 8 comes with “READER” which is microsofts version of pdf reader. It isn’t adobe acrobat reader and get this….YOU CANNOT PRINT PDF FILES FROM READER. You must purchase an add-on product. I tried to download a printer fix, but couldn’t because there was a flaw in the download process. I had to go to my old HP tower CPU computer (yes, it’s from the 1990s) and print the fix because large files wouldn’t download. I want to return my new HP computer simply because I HATE WINDOWS 8. It really, really SUCKS.
[@Doreen] You can print from Reader by hitting Ctrl-P, and you exit the app by either dragging down from the top of the screen until the app changes from full screen to a smaller version, then keep dragging it to the bottom of the screen. (Who thought of this???). Alternately, Alt-F4 still works to close everything.
I have been testing it out for months on a seperate partition. I absolutely HATE Windows 8. It is the most un-intuitive Un-user friendly piece-o-crap I have ever seen. It makes me hate MS more that ever.
[@janet]
I tried for a week, but finally got so frustrated I asked Best Buy to install Windows 7 on it. They told me they didn’t have a Windows 7 disk. So I told them to take it back and refund my money. They did. I have since ordered a laptop from HP loaded with Windows 7.
Good for you. I hope MS is getting the word. I didn’t pay for mine at all. Doesn’t it seem unbeleaveable that they wouldn’t even have a Windows 8 disk? They just can’t let us have one good OS even when they finally get it right. XP was so good and stable. Vista was rushed onto the market half-baked just to try to get us to spend more money and was an insult to the public. Windows 7 is good and stable but we really got ripped off because it’s really just a service pack or fix for Vista. It should have been free, So now that it’s a well liked, accepted and stable OS they want more money so out come a worse-than-Vista piece of junk. I suspect a big push pack from the public.
W8 is pure crapware
While I will admit that I hate Windows 8, the guy that made this video needs to stop reviewing products.
Windows 8 isn’t easy, or user friendly; but a so-called ‘tech guy’ should be able to figure it out by simply playing with it for half on hour or so. I did and I am in no way a ‘tech gal’.
Also, his tone of voice is completely annoying.
In my best comic book guy voice:
Worst…. OS…. Ever!
Try linux generally and ubuntu specfically.
Linux has hundreds of OS versions, literally. Nearly all versions have GUI too.
Linux is free, free, free.
Linux is stable and secure.
Linux apps are generally free and very, very wide ranging.
If you are half way a tech there is tons of free help.
Linux users generally have a copy in their bag to give away. Oh, it is free.
Linux can do most anything windows does. And no ‘BSofD’ either.
Linux is way secure.
Most versions of Linux can easily run off a zip drive or thumb drive.
Most versions will operate in ‘live’ mode so you can try it out without loading it on your computer. Some versions can be completely loaded into RAM making them lightning fast and still fully functional. Try that with Windows 8! And in ‘live’ mode you can test your computer’s equipment to see if linux will work nicely on your system.
Linux code is WIDE open. Yup, if you are a programer you can play with the actual code. That is a GREAT big ‘no-no’ with Microsoft that will get your hands spanked big time.
Linux has killer chess apps.
Lots of folks outside the U.S. use linux. The Chi-coms do and so do the Russians and increasingly the Federal Government. Why? You can freely change the code, it is way secure and linux is stable. Oh, and it’s FREE.
Linux is readily available as a download on the internet. Check out http://www.distrowatch.com for the latest and greatest. Burn a copy and give it a spin.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 but Mint is nice too.
I left Microsoft in the middle of XP, which I liked, and NEVER looked back…never.
However………………
Linux doesn’t do everything.
Linux does, like everything, have a learning curve.
Linux doesn’t do those killer windows games.
Linux doesn’t run on all computers. Linux prefers Nvidia Video cards and HP printers and it is picky about network adapters. It doesn’t much like Broadcom network stuff. Altheros and Intel should mostly be ok.
Yeah, I like linux. Can you tell? I use windows to check out the weather.
I’m certain that if Microsoft doesn’t improve their relations with customers by releasing a fix for Windows 8 or a new OS quick, they will lose market share quick. They tried to copy the style of other tablet OSs and yet force it on users. Lots of people hate iOS and OSX because things are hidden and sometimes beyond user control. That is exactly why many users stick to Windows, but Microsoft blundered that one. Microsfot shouldn’t have tried forcing this on people especially with an OS that is like their competitor rather than what set them apart and made them a strong company. They are out of touch with users to the point they will fail unless they get back in touch.
[@Jeff]
Stop making a mountain out a molehill.
Just install Windows 7.
You think Apple are any better? LOL.
Windows 7 forever.
I purchased a new desktop a month ago and unfortunately came with Windows 8. It is the most frustrating system I have ever used and I have tried to persevere with the system in the hope I could get used to it or like it. Now I understand persevere is not associated with a good change it is a bad change. I shouldn’t have to persevere with something that has a really bad UI, is not intuitive and worst of all is so slow at booting up (I have disabled most startup programs), programs freeze including the browser and has significantly impacted my capacity to work efficiently…or at this stage I’d love to just get things done..
At first I thought it was hardware but after searching the web for “Windows 8 sucks” I find a lot of people have the same issues and frustrations. My next step will be to change the OS..it would be nice to get my money back from MS for what is an absolute load of crap.
As one who has worked in Sales and Marketing for many years I am continuously amazed by the arrogance of MS and how THEY get to decide what crap they force on us. Unfortunately I think some of this comes from their extremely dominant, almost monopolistic market share. I hope however that these stumbles will help to reverse this. I think AAPL probably has a technically better technology which unfortunately has always been the Sony Beta (vs. VHS) of the computer software market. I think Office 2010 and some similar MS programs are further examples of MS crap-ware and bloat ware being shoved down our throats.
Yay windows 8 gave me another reason to say why Micro$oft sucks. Valve approves it. Linux is made by users, user friendly, fully controlled, and FREE. So both to Apple and Micro$oft : *fork* YOU!
[@answer-man] Steam is out for linux, so the games for it will be quickly getting more and more. AND there is a NATIVE version of TF2!
[@janet] Without question this is the worse operating system I’ve ever used; no, tried to use. Doing even the most simple computer tasks proved to be a chore. Can an o.s. get less intuative than this. It’s awful! To think that Steve Ballmer, a man who takes home around $1.3 million a year, gave the green light on this garbage is absolutely mind boggling. Windows 8 was on my machine for only 3 hours, but that was 2 hours and 50 minutes too long. That’s right, it took me only ten minutes to realize I would NEVER be able to live with this train wreck of an operating system. For the curious, the other 2 hours and 50 minutes was for wiping this pos from my hard drive.
[@tom] People should wake up to the fact you don’t have to use M$ or Apple. There are viable alternatives. After wiping Windows 8 from my hard drive I installed Linux Mint 14 KDE 64bit in its place. I couldn’t be happier as it’s very fast, stable, secure, highly customizable, and flat out beautiful. These are only a few of many sound reasons to use Linux. It’s too bad it took as long as it did for me to realize there was great free software available that could dethrone Windows as my default operating system. You see I too was totally ignorant of just how wonderful a computing experience using Linux could be. Although I dual boot with Windows 7 the M$ o.s. is there only as a backup should I have a problem with Linux Mint. Tom, go with the penguin! ;-)
[@answer-man] Linux? Absolutely! Ubuntu? The Unity desktop sucks. I think Linux Mint 14 KDE 64 bit is better, but that’s just personal preference. While we could argue what distro is best all day we do agree that Linux has an awful lot going for it. I swear by it now and like you I’m not looking back.
[@MacFan] Have you ever used Windows 8? While you can debate certain things that were said in the video there is no arguing the fact that this is an incredibly frustrating operating system to use. There is nothing intuitive about it! Brian Boyko makes his point!