{"id":8391,"date":"2013-01-28T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T01:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2013-02-14T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T22:32:42","slug":"grow-up-windows-haters-you-sound-like-a-bunch-of-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/grow-up-windows-haters-you-sound-like-a-bunch-of-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow up Windows haters. You sound like a bunch of trolls <rant>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/grow-up-windows-haters-you-sound-like-a-bunch-of-trolls\/computer-trolls\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8392\" alt=\"computer trolls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/computer-trolls.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/computer-trolls.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/computer-trolls-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>I was around during the PC wars of the 90&#8217;s, watch people piss on Windows when XP came out, then piss on Vista (although Vista deserved it) and then 7, and now everyone is hating on Windows 8 because of &#8220;Metro&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Screw off.\u00a0 While I think the whole apps thing on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/windows8-app-try-failed\/\"> Apps on Windows 8<\/a> is nothing more then wasted code and memory for the normal PC user, Windows 8 is still much faster and just as stable as Windows 7 has been for me. I have been running Windows 8 on my very old Lenovo x61 and its been great!\u00a0 With a SSD and only 2G of RAM I am just as productive as the rest of the office with their modern Mac and PCs.<\/p>\n<p>They key here is not let the the Metro App layer ( or whatever they call it ) let it blind you to some real improvements in the OS. Faster boot times, a few nicer UI elements, better memory management, etc..\u00a0 However, if you were to listen to all the haters out there, Windows 8 sucks because of the UI change of putting the App layer on top of the UI.\u00a0 I have to guess these are the same people that complain when Facebook makes a UI change.<\/p>\n<p>However, I was reading a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/01\/25\/5-reasons-you-should-buy-windows-8-now\/\">VentureBeat <\/a>letting people know that the price of Windows up is about to jump from $40 to $200.\u00a0 And fair warning it is.\u00a0 Then the author goes through 5 reasons you should get it before the price jumps.\u00a0 Not convinced about reason 5, but the other 4 were good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Then I read the comments<\/p>\n<p>Gezzz!!\u00a0 Its like troll city out there.\u00a0 Its like suddenly a whole parade of 14 year old (most likely Apple fan-boys) were let out of their collective cages to given access to a energy drink fueled masturbation on why Windows sucks.\u00a0 Almost all of them complaining about the Metro Apps layer of the OS while completely ignoring the fact that &#8216; hey Timmy&#8217;, you can get around the Apps layer and even get the start button back and have a FASTER OS!!..<\/p>\n<p>Trolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was around during the PC wars of the 90&#8217;s, watch people piss on Windows when XP came out, then piss on Vista (although Vista deserved it) and then 7, and now everyone is hating on Windows 8 because of &#8220;Metro&#8221;. Screw off.\u00a0 While I think the whole apps thing on Apps on Windows 8&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/grow-up-windows-haters-you-sound-like-a-bunch-of-trolls\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,105,91,44,1128,1576],"tags":[1963,1964],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-product-review","category-random-thoughts","category-rant","category-windows","category-windows-8","tag-trolls","tag-upgrading-windows-8"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-2bl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8487,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}