[BunnyJ]

:hmm:.. I think that Win8 did suck when it first came out. Very little information from MS on how it works or really good tutorials from them. I had the WTF moment when I started testing the beta in VM. After about 2 hours doing Google searches I became familiar with it and it was easy to use, for me at least.

8.1 and 8.1.1 are major improvements over 8.0. I really enjoy using 8.1.1 and to date it's my favorite OS. OS x is nice but I don't want to plunk down that amount of cash for an Apple product so I don't use it. Now with Win10 coming out I think that might be better than 8.1.1 with a tweak or two to the registry.

Right now I dual boot Win8.1.1 and Win10TP 9879.

Jeff

[Arc]

well personally I am typing this from windows 8. I "owned" a MacBook for a couple years, but I would never switch my windows for it, even though it has that polished feeling to it.
I really don't even dislike windows 8. I agree that I'd rather be on fedora, since it feels finished and unique, but games are a big plus for windows (IMO)

I guess we'll see what windows 9 has to bring to us (I saw an article somewhere that said it'll be free for win8 users

Sell me it. LOL

I'd rather use OS X than Windows 8, Or go straight to windows 7.

But Yosemite sucks so much I'd rather use Windows 8.1, so I switched to Mavericks

[Glacier]

Windows 8 can be fixed. If you're complaining about the start button download Classic Shell. If you're complaining about speed and such, well your computer must be utter shit.

[redarkblade]

As much as I hate Windows 8, I'd still choose it over OS X. At least you can customize it, and make it look like Windows 7. And gaming, of course.

[WuhTehFuh]

In my opinion Windows 8.1 is actually pretty good, I've been using it for around 9 months now and I think it's pretty good. The only problem I've seemed to have is it blue screening because of an audio interface I use but that's only happened like 5 times total probably.

[Crypt]

osx just because *nix operating system

[Mikasa]

I use both. They both have their own pros and cons.

[mothered]

Although this Is an old thread, It's recent activity has enticed me to post my thoughts.

When utilized via "Windows Explorer", Windows 8 Is much of a muchness to Windows 7. It runs two different computing environments, being Windows Explorer and the Metro UI, with the latter being somewhat of a confusion to a lot of end-users.
On topic pertaining to Windows or the OS X platform, more so for compatibility reasons, It's definitely Windows 8 for me.

[Oni]

I dislike a lot of things about Windows 8, but there are definitely many more things that I dislike about OS X.

[WuhTehFuh]

I dislike a lot of things about Windows 8, but there are definitely many more things that I dislike about OS X.

It might be controversial but I think OSX is pretty good for some things. For graphics design and music I really like it. I mainly use Windows 8 at the minute but I have a mac too that I use occasionally.