There are start menus that you can get for Windows 8 already out there.
I had trouble figuring out if a program was running or not and sometimes
how to close one. The evil empire is deliberately staying away from
things like that because they want their brand image to show that they
are with it with touch screens.
Every try to do desktop publishing with a touch screen?
Mark
On 06/24/2013 03:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
On Monday, June 24, 2013 15:21:26, Mark Wallace wrote:
In the abstract on the learning thing, I agree with you. But the couple
of hours is less than it often takes to post your problem on a web site
and get some feedback. It depends on whether you have a report due in
the morning or if your system is the one that your clerical person makes
appointments and does bookkeeping on. If it is, you might not have the
time to start geeking around.
If I have a report due in the morning, I would never do a resintall then --
I'd use a different computer. There aren't many situations in which I think
reinstalling to get around a problem makes much sense to me.
There are some though -- like I'm working to reinstall my laptop, because I
want to change filesystems and setup cryptfs + LVM. Right now I'm using
cryptfs + XFS on top; XFS is fast but the boot-time fsck is a no-op so it
won't auto-fix the filesystem on unclean shutdown, and instead files fromfrom
/tmp (at minimum) end up in /lost+found. This has proven to be a bit too much
of a headache for my tastes.
And I'm also still working on rewiriting a new EDID for the LCD panel in this
laptop because the one in the LCD panel internally has an error and other
solutions still haven't sufficiently worked for what I need. [This isn't
something that a reinstall is going to help.]
One of the interesting things about this is that I'm not able to find
sufficient tools for Linux to rewrite an EDID -- I'm getting the feeling that
I'm soon going to be writing an ncurses-based tool to do this.
By comparison, reinstalling XP and doing all of the updates will
probably be weekend long experience. About a day for Windows 7. Don't
get me started on Windows 8, I call it "The Ubuntu marketer".
Supposedly Windows 8.1 is going to re-introduce the Start menu, so hopefully
that'll be a bit more palatable.
-- Chris
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