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<blockquote data-quote="Luca Brasi" data-source="post: 928409" data-attributes="member: 60220">I went to 8 the day it was released on my workstation and 2 days ago on the htpc. You guys are right there are some advantages and to be honest I like it. But to achieve that I had to do some tweaking. E.g. to get rid of this metro app shit which might be suitable for a tablet or smartphone. Right now I give the new start menu a chance. Only advantage I see is the presenting of search results. For other purposes the behaviour in classic start menu like on right click was way better and much more logical. What I hate: there are some settings like advanced restart which you can only access in the new control panel. So there is no central place for your settings - bad bad bad...Another bs from ms: Wol is not supported from S4 hybrid. The fast boot/wake up from this state is imho the biggest advantage in 8 atm. But if its not possible to wake from the outside out of this state it would be useless for me. Luckily realtek took care of that in their latest driver. But you will not get that via win update....&nbsp;&nbsp; So, back to topic: as the ts doesn't want to take care of all this stuff and just wants to run a stable sys I keep to my recommendation for 7 in his case. Buying 8 and doing the downgrade is nonetheless a good advice in case he changes his mind.There are a lot of win 8 threads in the forum. Maybe one of us should start a more general win 8 one to centralize the issues around it. If one of you could do that I would feel grateful, if not I will do it as soon I am back home tommorrow night...Sorry for all the highjacking 1gkar <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)Luca</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Luca Brasi, post: 928409, member: 60220"] I went to 8 the day it was released on my workstation and 2 days ago on the htpc. You guys are right there are some advantages and to be honest I like it. But to achieve that I had to do some tweaking. E.g. to get rid of this metro app shit which might be suitable for a tablet or smartphone. Right now I give the new start menu a chance. Only advantage I see is the presenting of search results. For other purposes the behaviour in classic start menu like on right click was way better and much more logical. What I hate: there are some settings like advanced restart which you can only access in the new control panel. So there is no central place for your settings - bad bad bad... Another bs from ms: Wol is not supported from S4 hybrid. The fast boot/wake up from this state is imho the biggest advantage in 8 atm. But if its not possible to wake from the outside out of this state it would be useless for me. Luckily realtek took care of that in their latest driver. But you will not get that via win update.... So, back to topic: as the ts doesn't want to take care of all this stuff and just wants to run a stable sys I keep to my recommendation for 7 in his case. Buying 8 and doing the downgrade is nonetheless a good advice in case he changes his mind. There are a lot of win 8 threads in the forum. Maybe one of us should start a more general win 8 one to centralize the issues around it. If one of you could do that I would feel grateful, if not I will do it as soon I am back home tommorrow night... Sorry for all the highjacking 1gkar :-)) Luca [/QUOTE]

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