How do you turn off Fullscreen mode in Windows 8?

I'll give my vote for Linux, specifically Ubuntu, which I like much better than the dog **** you have to buy from Microsoft.  And it's free!

What a sweet **** deal that is.  So you're telling me after buying this great operating system, I need to go out and buy something to make it usable?

Fact is, at this point unless you're playing a DirectX only game, you're a fool to continue to buy Microsoft Products.  Debian based distros such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint give users the same feel that they're used to from earlier, useful, versions of Windows.  On top of that you can get an Office product FOR FREE which is getting pretty damn close to being better than Microsoft Office for Word, Spreadsheets and Power Point.  And hell even if you do like the god forsaken Windows 8 interface, you can configure Linux to run something similar.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 00:22:49 +0000, BobTBuilder26 wrote:

What a sweet ** deal that is.  So you're telling me after buying this great operating system, I need to go out and buy something to make it usable? 

No, I'm not telling you anything like that at all. First of all, as
far as I'm concerned, it's usable as it is, right out of the box. I
know several people who use it like that and like it; some of them
like and use the Modern/Metro interface (which I don't), and others
prefer and use the desktop interface, not modified with something like
Classic Shell or Start8.

Second, what I was suggested was what I consider to be a way to
improve it, not to make it usable.

Third, I recommended two pieces of software to improve it, and stated
that both were very good. And one of those pieces of software is
completely free.
Fourth, to me $4.99 is a small-enough cost that, since I consider
Start8 to be a little better than Classic Shell, I recommend it to
anyone willing to spend that small amount.

And last, we may be very different, but my experience with every
version of Windows (and I've run almost all of them, starting with
2.0) is that I have added many pieces of third-party software to make
improvements to it. Some of this software was free, and some I bought.
And I can't remember ever before buying anything as inexpensive as
$4.99.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 00:26:35 +0000, BobTBuilder26 wrote:

Fact is, at this point unless you're playing a DirectX only game, you're a fool to continue to buy Microsoft Products. 
Debian based distros such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint give users the same feel that they're used to from earlier, useful, versions of Windows.

I don't mind your having an opinion different from mine, but I do mind
your being insulting. I greatly prefer Windows 8 to any version of
Linux, but I don't call you a fool for having a different opinion.

On top of that you can get an Office product FOR FREE which is getting pretty damn close to being better than Microsoft Office for Word, Spreadsheets and Power Point.

As it happens, I don't use Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. I
greatly prefer Corel WordPerfect.

And for those who prefer Microsoft Office to Corel WordPerfect, they
can get free office products--OpenOffice and LibreOffice--that are
much like Microsoft Office, and run under Windows 8 without a problem.
I know many people who use OpenOffice or LibreOffice, and like it a
lot. I prefer WordPerfect, which is less expensive than Microsoft
Office, but isn't free; we aren't all the same.

And hell even if you do like the god forsaken Windows 8 interface, you can configure Linux to run something similar.

I said it earlier in this thread, but if I wasn't clear enough I'll
say it again. Windows 8 does not have an interface, god-forsaken or
not. It has two interfaces--the modern/metro interface (probably the
one you call the god-forsaken one) and the desktop interface. You can
use either or both.

Although as I also said earlier, I know people who do like the
modern/metro interface, personally I do not. I greatly prefer the
desktop interface and that's what I use. I almost never even look at
the modern/metro interface anymore.

You're not the only one who has gotten confused and thinks that
Windows 8's modern/metro interface is the Windows 8 interface and
that they have no choice. I think that Microsoft has done a poor job
and confused many people by not making the choice of the two
interfaces clear in its documentation, web pages, and advertising. The
result has been that many people hate Windows 8 for no good reason.