Re: After XP — OS alternatives for Samsung NP?
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For what it's worth, I'm running Windows 8 now. I wouldn't let horror stories of having to re-learn Windows throw you, it turns out that you can live with 8's worst touch-screen habits (I use the keyboard a bit more because the built-in mouse is a bit "touchy") and in truth I hardly touch the screen at all.
Whether you'll even have to deal with "touch" on an older unit depends on whether your unit has the hardware support for it. If not, then Windows 8 will look a little different but will act similar to what you're used to on the older OS.
Note: I made the jump from a machine that ran XP Media Center Edition (based on XP Pro but with a few more "toys") to this machine which runs Windows 8, and am at a loss to figure what the problem was "having to learn Windows again". It just wasn't that hard to work my way through, though finding some of the things-- like Control Panel for example-- took a bit of "feel and grope" the first time through. It would help if they would ship these things with at least a six-page book showing where to find stuff, but they don't so you just have to muddle through. Much of the stuff you're reading about the difficulties of learning 8 is that it's a little different in appearance. Much the same sort of thing happened when Windows 95 came out-- I remember hearing people say it was hard to learn hard to understand and so on and so on, what it was is-- different. We've been running on Windows 95 type user interfaces since then until 8 came along, and the changes made in 8 are mainly cosmetic. If you have enough on the ball to successfully turn on a computer, sign on to a browser and get to this website, you should be able to figure out Windows 8 without too much trouble.