I'm ready to submit my order for a Dell Computer with the Windows 8 OS and just wondering about how long it will take me to learn how to use it. I'm going to use a keyboard and mouse because I don't want a touch screen.
Would appreciate any advice.
Thank you.
I was one of the ones really down on Win8 when it first came out. As time went on, I decided I wanted to try it so I installed it on my older laptop that had been running XP. It's a single core machine and Win8 is just as fast on it as XP was. As Bob3160 said, if you install Classic Shell, use the Win7 skin, and set it to skip the "Metro" screen at boot, it's just like running Win7 but there are some improvements under the hood. It's lighter for one thing and it boots up very fast. The boot time on the older machine is about 40-50% faster than XP had been.