I stayed clear of win8 as well. And idk, aside from issues like win95/98 not being able to release memory and tinker with forced page file sizes the version I disliked most was vista. Especially the pre-release I got, think I still have it somewhere when MS was sending out to beta testers and it was still 'longhorn'. Typical winblows, every other release seems to be fairly solid. The ones in between nightmares. 95 eh, 98 was better. Win2k was nice, ME meh. Xp was nice, vista meh. Win 7 was good, 8 was annoying.
I don't really have anything against linux and it does have a lot of usable stuff for many things. Definitely not all. I get the program incompatibility, star office was decent. Definitely don't prefer gimp to photoshop. The gui's (older mind you) looked nice but ultimately glitchy. I know when I set up rh6 it had me make like 5 partitions just to install the os. At least windows ditched fat16/32 for ntfs which made it more stable. I still have some like a bootable lite linux thumb drive os. Have a copy of suse linux somewhere. Another issue for me are games and while running windows virtually is an option seems like a hat on a hat. I could run linux just to have to install win anyway and try to run it through an emulator or virtual machine or something to play games and run windows software that's not ported to linux - or I could just install windows.
Software has hard enough time as it is these days. So much of linux feels like it's in constant trial/developer phase without truly ever feeling complete. Which some people enjoy but don't like feeling like I'm troubleshooting everything in experimental mode. Pc's have lost some of their appeal to me just like many electronics just for the fact that progress is ultimately being lost it feels like. Where things should be running more smoothly these days, the rough edges off, less down time and b.s. there's more of it. Everything from pc's to laptops, tablets, phones, game stations. It's this crashed and that's down and this has a security hole and that needs a patch. Why is the clock wrong on this appliance? Hang on let me get out the star chart and decoder ring. Pop something in the microwave, it's not just 'cook'. It's push this then that, program this, enter that. For shit's sake I just wanted warm coffee or a bag of popcorn. Instead I've become all but a licensed programmer just to record a tv show and deal with all the broken ass software with menu systems that take a user 15 dropboxes deep.
Even watching tv, I've noticed remote batteries don't last as long. Of course they don't. In the older days of remotes, you pushed the numbers for the channel, turned volume up/down or on/off. Now? Turn on the tv, the dvr, the sound system. Go to the menu screen, find the search function, now select the letters by navigating a screen that reminds me of webtv. Or like I'm entering a character name on a nintendo. Then you search for it. Look for it under now playing, movies, tv shows, series.. click to select that. Upcoming episodes, series, season? Would you like season 1, season 2.. no upcoming episodes. No, channels I get. No upcoming episodes.. Fuck it I'll just go outside and throw a rock at a tree. 89 button presses and 15 menus later just to find out 'no episodes this week'. And next week I'll get to replace the batteries in the remote again cause I wore them out. I miss the old days of flipping open a tv guide and circling shit with a pen or highlighter. Boom, done. Old school 1, modern tech 0. The rate they're going I'll be sitting around in soiled underpants because my dresser drawer won't open. Critical error, it's downloading an update.
Looks akin to Synaptic in Debian although reads like it's been made more advanced.
