I want opinions on Windows 8 - ready to buy new laptop.

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45. I really do

but it is just a preference.

On our older laptops I've installed either ubuntu or suse with different gui's and went back and forth. I was saying above that lxde is more usuable on the older ones than kde.

For a long time on my previous laptop I would switch back and forth between unity, lxde, gnome, cinnamon, and kde plasma. Just whatever I felt like. And I left windows as a dual boot option.

On this new one and on my desktop I just installed kubuntu because they have the resources for it to run easily and honestly I just prefer it. I like how customizable it is. I have tinkered with it to fit with my eyes and style of using. I love it.

I probably liked cinnamon next best, but I don't really mind unity. My five-year-old uses unity as her typical default. My 9-year-old son goes back and forth with unity and gnome, I don't know if he really thinks about it, he just wants to click on the icon that makes something open and uses whatever the computer boots up to. He's more likely to use a tablet though. My daughter plays a lot of the kid internet games that use flash so she is more likely to use a desktop. I kind of think that unity may be easier for starters who aren't used to an OS already, but something like gnome or kde or cinnamon might be better for people who are already used to things.

Here is a screen shot of my desktop:


core 2 with 3 gigs of ram, tons of things open, dual monitors, webdav mounted, just humming right along.