You know what, there's really no point in trying in continuing this, since all I'm getting from you is 'I'm not hating on Windows 8 but it's bad because of such-and-such'. I'm not forcing you to switch over, nor am I saying it's worth its price (IMO it was when it was $40, but at $120 there's really no point of upgrading if you already have 7). All I'm saying is that it's getting a lot of undeserved hate.
And I just want to correct you on a few things:
loldcraft wrote:
more convenient OS recovery/re-installation options (look mom, no install disc/recovery partition),windows 7 had that, and the recovery partitions is useful.
I'm pretty sure Windows 7 didn't give you the option of a one-click reinstallation with no need for an install disc nor recovery partition...
loldcraft wrote:
better multi-monitor support, better high-resolution support, better keyboard layout support,these worked perfectly in win7, there's nothing to make better. In fact that stupid DPI scaling crap made mouse lag (yes, I know its fixed)
1. The multimonitor support in Windows 8 has stuff that wasn't possible in Windows 7 without software like DisplayFusion. Multiple wallpapers, control over the taskbar and its behaviour on each screen (Windows 7 only allows for one taskbar on one screen), new keyboard shortcuts, etc.
2. It wasn't the DPI scaling that caused the problem with mouse lag. It was a change to input processing in general (and as you said, it was already fixed).
3. An example of why the keyboard layout support is better: By default, Windows installs 3 keyboard layouts in Canada (two of which are completely useless if you don't speak French), and would switch between them every time Ctrl+Shift was pressed (very annoying considering that many programs use those keys for keyboard shortcuts). You can remove the extra layouts in Control Panel, but a lot of people don't know how to do that and thus are stuck with having to deal with the problems it causes (not to mention that some people, like me, have a legitimate reason to switch between layouts).
On Windows 8, it was remapped to WinKey+Space, which doesn't interfere with other programs and makes it much more difficult to accidentally press (Windows 7, on the other hand, doesn't even let you remap using the WinKey).
loldcraft wrote:
Because there's no start menu to put them in.
There's no menu in Windows 7 that's
this quick and convenient... And I don't want to have to browse through my Start menu every time I want to use CMD in admin mode (and I'm not going to pin it because I use other programs too).