On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:17:56 -0400, Slimer wrote:

On 2015-06-11 1:15 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:01:13 -0400, Slimer wrote:


Agreed wholeheartedly. 8, in its default state, scared off even the
biggest fans of Microsoft's products. I stuck around, but I have to
admit that I dreaded working within the modern interface most of the
time. It still allowed me to do whatever I wanted, but it became
somewhat cumbersome. 8.1's been magnificent.

Do you remember what some of the differences were between 8.0 and 8.1? I
presumably have 8.1 on this laptop but I haven't seen any different
behaviors compared to what I had before. Maybe it's because I've always used
Classic Shell?

8 didn't allow you to resize the tiles in the modern interface. There
also was no "start button" which meant that if you wanted to load a
program, you moved the cursor to the bottom-left corner or typed on the
Windows key and entered the name of the program you wanted. The
operating system was also unable of booting directly into the desktop
and required you to play with the modern interface. Otherwise, it's the
same as far as I know.

Thanks, that makes sense then. Those are all things that Classic Shell takes
care of. That explains why I don't see any difference.