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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
I don't hate windows 8 because its what the cool kids are doing, I hated my experience. I constantly plug my laptop into my recievers HDMI to watch netflix on my TV. it never worked properly and eventually I lost all sound and after two solid days - an entire weekend of installing and uninstalling drivers and chasing down 30+ possible issues suggested on random forums and getting absolutely no where I was doen with it. (my hdmi habbits work with zero issues on win 7 same laptop.)
I didn't find it to be the same OS at all though... finding things I'm used to seeing in the control panel or the like were moved or gone... I spent years and years (like it or not) getting used to how windows was laid out and they kind of blew most of it away so they could put the idiotic overlay on the actual desktop, but then removed features...
if like you say all they did was add an overlay that I could close/ignore I'd agree with you - but once you start troubleshooting you'll see exactly how much they moved or removed and gets not fun very quickly.
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*Shrug* I use my Win 8 laptop for that exact thing on my bedroom TV (Laptop HDMI--->Receiver--->TV) all the time and I've never had that happen. To be fair however, my laptop came with Win 8 pre-installed, so I would assume that all it's internals have compatible drivers. The only aftermarket thing I've installed so far is an mSATA SSD.
On the topic of UI/control functions, installing Start8 ($5) literally fixes every problem in that regard.
I play games (Civ 5, SimCity, MW:O), have recorded audio & edited video (Adobe Audition & Premiere CS6), and created e-learning modules for work (Adobe Captivate CS6) with no lock ups, freezes, BSODs, reboots, missing audio, missing video, driver crashes, corrupt sectors, etc.
Suffice to say, I've had an even more stable experience in my first 3 months with Windows 8 than I had with Windows 7 when it came out.
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