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Originally Posted by nickdalzell
i had whatever came with my Toshiba. it just said 'Windows 8' on the tag. it displayed Metro normally unless i launched 'Desktop' and then it would have a Win7 style desktop. the wallpaper was customizable, i could auto-hide the dock and disable or enable desktop icons. but no themes. if more than say 3 or so system tray icons were showing, they'd auto hide behind a 'arrow' that if you clicked it would show all of them. i can assure you Mike's desktop looks more like a haphazard GTK theme than any Windows i have seen. and i have used Windows since version 3.0
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What looks like a "haphazard GTK theme"? Just that I've got the task bar as a semi-transparent grey colour?
As for the rest of it, that's just how I've set it up, all system tray icons showing, wallpaper choice etc. The Windows 8 desktop loses much of that shiny aero-glass stuff that Windows 7 had. It's much more about clean solid colours and less flash and shine.
I suppose I could make my KDE desktop look like Mac OS X, with a dock and everything.
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Originally Posted by nickdalzell
It also had that UEFI crap too. a lot of joy getting Linux to run on that! i lost Windows 8 in the process (the partition manager had already wiped the entire HDD) and i had planned a dual boot but it did not matter as i got my game working on Linux now--if Star Trek Online had not worked, it would have been a deal breaker and a big 'whoops!' as that is the primary use of that particular laptop
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The recent Lenovo laptop I'm using has all that "UEFI crap too", and I installed Linux no problem and Windows 8.
However it came with pirated Windows 7 Ultimate.....Welcome to China!
That was the primary reason why I bought Genuine Windows 8.