Gary Varga (5/27/2014)

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djackson 22568 (5/27/2014)

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IMO Windows 8 is nothing more than Vista II. It is by far the worst OS I have seen them release. I know some people like it, but invariably those are people who for whatever reason are using a tablet.

Windows 8 sucks on a PC or laptop.

Case in point - I built a new PC from scratch. I followed Microsoft recommendations on using sysprep to move the users folder off the SSD that I spent significant money on. SSDs have a limited number of writes, and given how IE handles caching, and given that your OS drive is NOT typically large enough to store your data, it made sense.

That is, until MS released 8.1, which does NOT support upgrading any system that has been syspreped!

MS's response is that the Microsoft sysprep tool is not supported, even though it is a Microsoft product, pretty much all businesses use it, and there is no logical reason to not support it.

Thus began my current project of removing Windows from my life. Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, all of these are far easier to install and manage. My then 6-year old can install software on Linux without worrying about infecting my network. Why would I want to overpay for an OS that is so bad the manufacturer doesn't support it under normal operating conditions.

I agree that your sysprep issue is unacceptable. This will become an issue time and time again.

I just wanted to say that from a OS as a client point of view that I like it. I am using it on a laptop (without touchscreen) for development and have found it to be the best Windows OS so far.

I may eventually move off Windows but not until the majority of my clients do.