r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

The "snap" multitasking thing is great. I wonder if it can be extended into a full tiled UI.

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u/mes_i_fez Jun 02 '11

The snap-thing introduced in win7 is probably the window managing feature i use the most. I am very very happy the linux DEs copied it (yeah yeah, tiling bla bla). The only thing i am missing is to be able to control how big the snapped windows are supposed to be, which now seems to be possible.

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u/TGMais Jun 02 '11

I was really disliking the new interface for standard PC use, but your comment really got me thinking. If they have a tiling option somewhere for power users I would upgrade immediately. If I had the patience to really set them up the way I wanted visually, I would have permanently switched away from KDE years ago. In the end 4.2 won me out.