I think windows 8 deserved to be forgotten, windows 8.1 is just ultimately the better successor of it

@PurblePink8678

26 күн бұрын

Except for the fact that wsservice_crk which allowed you to sideload unsigned Store apps was patched by Microsoft in 8.1. And there's no way of sideloading Metro apps on regular SKUs of 8.1 without them breaking.

@bagasangga

25 күн бұрын

tbh, Windows 8.1 is the same thing as Windows 8.0. The only differences is the addition of start button & wallpaper.

@thawkade

25 күн бұрын

​​@@bagasangga8.1 added a _lot_ of QOL features that 8 should have released with, they drastically improved the user experience. Small and Large tile sizes A much better All Apps menu The option to boot straight to the Desktop The addition of the Power Menu to the Start Screen A proper context menu on the Start Screen A title bar that lets you minimize and close Metro apps The option to have Metro Apps in the taskbar The option to snap up to 4 apps at once Improved built-in apps There was a lot done to make it feel way better to use and it's honestly really good

@charliesretrocomputing

25 күн бұрын

@@bagasangga I think 8.1 has less bugs and some extra features though... it's significantly better than 8 so i call it windows 9 lol

@bagasangga

25 күн бұрын

@@charliesretrocomputing "Windows 9" doesn't exist.

Windows Phone was actually good. There were no ads, it was extremely fast, responsive and user friendly. I still have a Windows Phone, but it's useless due to the servers being down.

@Zomboy4313

14 күн бұрын

Wait what phone has ads

@gargamel3478

14 күн бұрын

@@Zomboy4313 Android and iOS

8.1 is my favorite version of Windows, it was much lighter than 10 and could pretty easily be made to work more or less the same as 7 if need be. It really was great on a tablet especially, the touch experience, gestures, and animations are somehow _still_ better than both 10 and 11 It was also the seemingly the last time they had an actual QA team to fix bugs, 10.and 11 have so many inexplicable jitters and small bugs that just don't really happen to me on 7 and 8.

@usm2247

25 күн бұрын

windows 8.1 was even faster and better than 7, i have old laptop which i still use sometimes for basic tasks and windows 8.1 is great.

To be honest, I am one of few people who actually enjoyed using Windows 8 in general regardless of whether it's RTM or 8.1. Mainly because it was in my experience it was an extremely stable system and I rarely ever encountered any BSODs or lock ups. Unlike with some of my past experiences with Windows 7 and XP, where the system would BSOD or lock up quite often out of no where and without any warning. There again I think that was mainly due to driver issues and wasn't really the fault of the OSes themselves. Other than my experience with Windows 8 being really good, I like the idea that Microsoft went for. Whilst it doesn't suit a desktop OS, it's really not even that hard to use once you get used to it. I actually had been using Windows 8 as main OS since 2013. Although I pretty much moved on to using Windows 10 as my main OS now, officially as of this year. Although in a few years, i'll eventually have to move onto Windows 11.

@KofolaDealer

24 күн бұрын

Windows 8 proves that you can have all the cloud services (live tiles, windows store, onedrive) that newer operating systems do and still have it run well

@Joshwoakes

24 күн бұрын

​@@KofolaDealer well any cloud service (e.g One Drive) could technically run on Windows 7 and maybe Windows Vista. However some cloud services are exclusive to Metro a.k.a UWP (e.g Microsoft Store) and will only work on Windows 8 or newer. As for live tiles, they were mainly for mobile versions of Windows and Windows 8 but they were kept in Windows 10.

@KofolaDealer

24 күн бұрын

@@Joshwoakes Well windows 8 had all of that and it's faster than windows 7. Windows 10/11's performance is inexcusably bad

The windows phone was a good idea. It has a unique UI, like windows 8, and they had good ideas. They were supposed to all link together, along with your Xbox I believe. It’s a shame it never worked.

Wow I never realized how much of windows 8 I forgot about, I think my brain blocked all memories of it because I absolutely hated having to upgrade to it from windows 7 at the time

microsoft is making the same mistake as windows 8 on windows 11, designing things to be touchscreen friendly & forcing that on desktop users. the amount of unnecessary padding and removal of anything compact is insanely annoying. they removed the option for a small taskbar (they also made the taskbar ~10px taller than win10), they bloated all the ui elements and gave them a billion percent more padding and rounding, spaced everything apart, generally everything is a waste of screen space. look how fucking massive the start menu is lol

@Lorinc936

26 күн бұрын

I actually think it's alright for mouse and keyboard, but it's definitely designed for touchscreen, but at least it works well with that.

@thawkade

25 күн бұрын

What's funny is that 11 doesn't even excel on tablets like 8 at the very least did.

@ConcavePgons

24 күн бұрын

@@thawkade Maybe it's for tablets with pens.

@thawkade

24 күн бұрын

@@ConcavePgons I have a pen, it's not much better with it, it definitely isn't anyway considering they added a lot of multi finger gestures

@user-hb2ow5ke6h

24 күн бұрын

and you cant change the size of the start menu either like you can on windows 10 ☠

Great video. I have a 8.1 touchscreen Alienware lying around somewhere. It needs some care before I run it again but honestly on a touchscreen, it's not that bad.

Don't know why but this video reminds me of Michael MJD

@bloxyarii

25 күн бұрын

maybe the voice? his voice sounds similar!

@NatetheNintendofan

25 күн бұрын

@@bloxyarii You're kinda right they do

Nice video man. On a full screen Metro app with a mouse and keyboard, it felt really dumb clicking at the top of the window and dragging it all the way down to close an app. On a touchscreen device like the Surface Pro or Surface RT, it makes a lot more sense swiping down with your finger. I feel as if the Start Screen makes so much more sense on a tablet as well. Would be cool if there was a small comeback of Windows 8 on something like the ROG Ally or Steam Deck. I never liked the traditional Windows UI on a tablet lol

That's weird, Minecraft 1.20.4 installed perfectly for me just a few months ago. Ooh, another thing you could try is Blender. Windows 7 lost OFFICIAL-support and updates became 3rd party on git-hub. Windows 8 still fully supports modern Blender and no signs of cutting it off.

Oh I can personally tell you what Windows 8 can do. A lot of things Windows 7 has completely left out: USB 3 drivers during installation, UEFI on 64 bit versions, NVME, Secure Boot, Turing Nvenc, and even supports more games... If Steam hadn't removed Windows 7&8 from support that is. That is unfortunate because I was wanting to play Doom Eternal on Windows 7 on my AMD APU. Oh well, Windows 10 will suffice for at least the testing portion before I switch over to Windows 8.1 with the Windows 7 B450 chipset.

so basically kinda like windows 7 you can install security updates until 2023 (no esu) some softwares ended support for windows 7 earlier before windows 8 and uhh yeah I think that's it, overall a less bloated version of windows 10

5:27 In Win8 Release Preview Aero is on by default, and the OS itself is free (the mechanism locking the OS is long broken).

and i love windows 8

That was cool showing Windows 8 instead of Windows 8.1, I think a lot of programs stopped supported 8 but still support 8.1 so might be worth looking at 8.1 one day too

I use Windows. 8.2 (The first windows 10 beta) and it’s really good, plus I get the start menu and windowed metro apps if I want

The theme engine contrast part still here in win 11 you need to do sift print screen (it is possibl eto changw which contrast is used) it is now classed as an eacceability feature

It had some issues, but I liked using Windows 8 overall. Granted, I didn’t use the apps, but desktop software and there was a learning curve on how to find power user functionality. Still, it worked fine for me, overall.

I used win 8 for 2 years back then because my company laptop had it installed, it wasn't bad at all you can use it like windows 7 everything works like windows 7 once you got used to the new HUD and navigation 😅

I wish I could use windows 8.1 as my main os. I really like the sounds in the os.

Great Vid

As a person who daily drives windows 8 for everything except for editing and gaming, I'll say it's a completely usable OS as of 2024.

I love Windows 8, it is so streamlined and visually appealing. Interaction with existing programs and apps was so streamlined. The problem is the users, they didn't get this work of art.

For anybody looking for the mouse fix for vmware:Edit > Preferences > Input, and from here change "Optimize mouse for games" from Automatic to Always. At least this is how it is in workstation 15. This will ensure that the cursor stays inside the vm, and you'll have to use ctrl+alt to get out.

I think the only chrome-based browser that still supports Win8 is yandex browser. Its latest version runs fine on Win8 rp.

yooo i requested this 🔥

I "upgraded" to 8.1 back in the Spring of 2014 and I find it bad because I (and many others) did everything we could to make it more like 7 with tools like Classic Shell. It was pretty much a slightly more modern looking Windows 7 after that though. I ignored pretty much all the Metro (full screen) apps since they were pretty much all awful. Early 2010s really was a weird time... all about tablets and everyone thought they would eventually succeed laptops altogether.

the theme engine is still a thing in windows 10. you can enable it in the personalization options under colors. for some reason they decided to make accent colors not apply by default

@Joshwoakes

24 күн бұрын

You can also restore all of the personalization control panel pages using Winaero Tweaker and use that as well. However while they still function like they did in Windows 8 and 7, They are abit bugged out and open in separate windows.

my nostalgia belongs to windows xp for disk based gaming and youtube on xp was special

It wasn't bad. It just had a bad concept for the start menu. I used it for years on my Media Centre PC, with fewer problems than with Windows 7.

for minecraft the legacy launcher should work but if it doesnt you can use multimc or prism launcher

Windows 8 and 8.1 were so bad that every time Windows forced me to do a major system update, it broke my laptop more and more with each update. Was super annoying having to run back updates every time I was auto forced to update to something that broke half my programs.

The Metro UI era (Windows 8/Windows Phone) was the best! I miss these times...

@oktalon

20 күн бұрын

Yeah, and the animations in Windows 8 are so smoooth

watcing this video on my old dell study laptop with windows 8.1 xD

There is still word pad on windows 11

There's only rare few videos on KZread mobile that can be played in background without the premium subscription and this video of yours is one of them haha

@Nostalgic9080

20 күн бұрын

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@SAGBub

20 күн бұрын

what are you yapping about?

@eobardthawnemcoc

20 күн бұрын

Was saying ur video is cool af

@Nostalgic9080

20 күн бұрын

@@eobardthawnemcoc Oh Thanks didn't know what you meant at first. Glad you enjoyed!!

you should install video drivers it would work better

i am still running it

I never use windows 8 which i hate this has no logo win but instead used old laptop windows 8.1 with win logo bottom, like it

I am now using 8.1

If Steam is pushing the Linux route because people don't want to upgrade to a newer Windows then I have about had it with Valve and at this point would rather go back to Windows 7 or stay on Windows 10 because Windows 11 is starting to suck real bad with Microsoft deprecating the hell out of key features that make Windows useful. You can't even move the start menu at the top anymore after Windows 10 I might just switch to Linux Mint Cinnamon and strongly debating on it if Microsoft continues to deprecate useful software consider me a Linux user in the near future don't upgrade to Windows 11 I just used it and went straight back to Windows 10 I think Windows 10 will be the LAST WINDOWS I EVER USE and I am not joking all the useful shit in Windows 10 is gone on Windows 11 man what ever you guys do please don't upgrade I can't even pull the start menu to the top and hide it so I can run virtual machine making it a pain in the ass to use Windows 10 will be the last good Windows provided by Microsoft.

superium still work based on chromium

@Joshwoakes

24 күн бұрын

Superium is a port\clone of newer chrome versions intended for unsupported OSes. So it will work regardless.

I think I am only person that skiped Winowds 10.

Never seen tabler modei windows,11

I only liked the animations and the sounds of windows 8/8.1

WordPad is still in Windows 11

Buh cat like this

my friend mains a 8

yummy

Windows 8 was the first OS I ever used because my moms Acer had it installed.

I like windows 7 much better

you literally have not use windows 11? why?

I refused to go to Win 8, I completely skipped over it till Win 7 went out of service security wise then went to Win 10. Prefer to forget Windows 8 ever existed. Hell I have more fond memories of Windows Vista.

Play fortnite

@NatetheNintendofan

25 күн бұрын

@Gabbesnabbe No thank you that game's boring