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Right that was my worry, the W7 disc is christ knows where and I just lent the disc drive from a friend to install it last time.

Its my final straw anyway, I'm moving to Ubuntu.

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:p:I have been using USB Pendrives lately for installing Windows.

The install time has gone from being around 15 minutes to around 3 minutes, so much faster and easier as I now don't need a optical drive in my pc anymore.

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:tu:

I am back on windows 7 until such time as Microsoft return a working as BEFORE start button. If i wanted a mobile phone operating system i would buy a phone. Windows 7 and Linux will be around for years to come so i am more than happy.

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Tried Ubuntu, its okay but I'm pining for Photoshop and a decent Skype app so I've bought one of those 4p to produce DVD drives on eBay so I can reinstall Windows 7.

I just want a working computer and my bloody sanity back.

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I want the same. Windows 8 will go down in history as the same rubbish as windows Millennium and windows Vista.

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It will go down in history to me as being the worst OS I have used, since I had no issues with ME or Vista.

I will get rid of Windows though, if the day ever comes that DirectX works on Linux so that I can still game.

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It's definitely getting there

I have steam and a couple of other games on my Linux mint install on the laptop.

have look at this
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/
which uses wine.

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Windows 8.1 will start to roll out to everyone on windows 8 as a free upgrade on October 18th from the windows store.

http://www.techspot.com/news/53622-m...ober-18th.html

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cant wait roll on October :):):)

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I will wait for windows 9 and see what that's like, happily ruining windows 7 :)

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9 will be more like windows 8 than 7 IMHO more improvements on the metro side

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Then i will be moving to Linux for my main pc and using a windows 7 machine for gaming. however i am pretty sure it will be hacked so it has a proper start button just like they have hacked it now.

Tiss not a problem as they will never get any money out of me again EVER. It great having evaluation versions of there software to use anyway. :LOL:

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Issues for possible hacking and spying in windows 8 in the following link

http://rt.com/news/windows-8-nsa-germany-862/

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I think even microsoft know windows 8 is a flop, we'll have to wait and see who takes over in a years time and see what changes they bring.

I personally like the UI interface of windows 8 I like the fact I can have all my regular things in tiles at the start and don't have to bother with the desktop if I don't want. I just dont like how microsoft have to hide everything from people as if they are a bit stupid like the calculator for instance it took me a while to find it

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use the search luke