Journal kesuki's Journal: windows 8 is hate. 3
first off, everything is broken -- you load all apps as limited user privaleges so called windows mode. great for a tablet which doesn't matter, but broken on a laptop where they invented new ways to emulate touch screen with a mouse if i hadn't found that out while installing i would have had to scour youtube for directions. needless to say window mode doesn't work with pogo, which uses flash, java, and popups. once i got ie to run in desktop mode i could find the ways to enable/update things but despite being preloaded with all three they didn't work in desktop mode without updating which took a good 20 minutes to even try to find, and of course mega download updates for the os. i don't know if flash updated i don't know if my mom is going to be able to keep them updated either, since i was confused as to how to get it done. still in progress of making it work, dumb website that makes people use the latest software even when that is broken in windows 8. sigh. if anyone has any ideas of ways to make windows tile screen have a simple link to desktop mode ie, it would be helpful though i will probabally scour youtube for that. then i need an app that makes updating flash and java painless. not sure what to do there, i can't be there every time there is an update to flash because they go on vacations and remote desktop is too insecure for me to trust it running on moms laptop.
Yes. It's that bad. (Score:2)
No. There's not a specific fix.
"Windows Blue" the next dot-release is supposed to get you to desktop mode, a bit easier.
Re: (Score:2)
i did straighten things out, and my mom is able to use it, but i literally had to create a shutdown shortcut and to teach my mom a few things to get her used to it. it also took a whopping 6 dvd-r to make recovery discs and it wouldn't recognize my external usb3 blu-ray burner where it would have fit on a single disc. sigh. linux kinda sorta supports blurays as long as you only need 99% of your data to burn to disc. at least it reports failing at 99% i never did md5sums to be sure...