Windows 8

I had some fun and was trying out Window 8 64-bit to see what everyone was complaining about. In all honestly, I have to say I overall really like how they laid out everything and cleaned up the UI. The OS runs significantly faster and seeing how I pretty much never use the start menu other than to find a program I haven't used in months it was a welcoming change.

I did an upgrade from Window 7 because I didn't want to torch all my programs. It got me to remove a few programs, but I can't really complain since I barely used them. The upgrade however was pretty bad, it took well over 3 hours to upgrade my laptop. My laptop isn't a very powerful computer (by powerful I mean workstation class laptops), but with an Intel i7, 4GB of RAM, and a 7.2k rpm drive I wouldn't have expected such a long time.

After playing with it for a few hours, I'm very happy with it but it certainly is more orientated for mobile devices. If you are looking to buy a new laptop/'ultrabook'/etc in 2013 (assuming the world doesn't end), then I would suggest you get it with Windows 8. This is assuming you don't want a Mac or put some flavor of Linux on it.

Linux, in my opinion is a great OS for servers/development but I have tried and failed many times to convince myself to use it for anything else. I do feel right at home in both environments, but for everyday things and games I'm pretty much going to stick with Windows. Then again, I never enjoyed using vim or emacs. but they certainly do a great job for working with files on a deployed server instance.

Anyways, back to work for me, I got Combatics Evolution 0.1.2 on the way and just want to finish making some more changes.