Re: Anyone else really hate the Windows 8 interface?
David Baldwin wrote:
I usually park my Layers panel in the lower right of my screen. If I remember correctly (I am now typing on a Win 7 machine so can\'t check at the moment) I was attempting to click the \"create new layer\" button.
YUP ... ticked me off all the time as well, i.e. very disruptive to the workflow/creative/mojo process. Sure, you can say well, just move your layers panel somewhere else, but now you\'re forcing me to revise my workflow to accommodate the OS/UI interfering with the program I\'m working in ... not exactly my idea of what an OS is supposed to be doing.
Good real estate management/flow is part of the efficiency ... forcing me to make that different comes at a cost (efficiency/mindset) that eradicates what was intuitive to me. After a month of using Win 8, I never realized any ROI benefit sufficient to offset these kinds of losses.
BTW ... my frustrations/disruptions turned into delays for deliverables. Say what you might, think of me what you will ... but this was real world business for me.
Re: Anyone else really hate the Windows 8 interface?
David Baldwin wrote:
I usually park my Layers panel in the lower right of my screen. If I remember correctly (I am now typing on a Win 7 machine so can\'t check at the moment) I was attempting to click the \"create new layer\" button.
YUP ... ticked me off all the time as well, i.e. very disruptive to the workflow/creative/mojo process. Sure, you can say well, just move your layers panel somewhere else, but now you\'re forcing me to revise my workflow to accommodate the OS/UI interfering with the program I\'m working in ... not exactly my idea of what an OS is supposed to be doing.
Good real estate management/flow is part of the efficiency ... forcing me to make that different comes at a cost (efficiency/mindset) that eradicates what was intuitive to me. After a month of using Win 8, I never realized any ROI benefit sufficient to offset these kinds of losses.
BTW ... my frustrations/disruptions turned into delays for deliverables. Say what you might, think of me what you will ... but this was real world business for me. Win 8 did me no favors.
Re: Anyone else really hate the Windows 8 interface?
David Baldwin wrote:
I usually park my Layers panel in the lower right of my screen. If I remember correctly (I am now typing on a Win 7 machine so can\'t check at the moment) I was attempting to click the \"create new layer\" button.
YUP ... ticked me off all the time as well, i.e. very disruptive to the workflow/creative/mojo process. Sure, you can say well, just move your layers panel somewhere else, but now you\'re forcing me to revise my workflow to accommodate the OS/UI interfering with the program I\'m working in ... not exactly my idea of what an OS is supposed to be doing.
Good real estate management/flow is part of the efficiency ... forcing me to make that different comes at a cost (efficiency/mindset) that eradicates what was intuitive to me. After a month of using Win 8, I never realized any ROI benefit sufficient to offset these kinds of losses.
Apr 05, 2013 at 10:39 AM
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