Using Windows 8 BETA as my main OS for now?

[abbo001]

Hello,
Well i was thinking of using Windows 8 as my main OS. Since the BETA version is available, will it be Ideal to rather keep it as a secondary one rather than the primary one.

 

[jdwii]

Hello,
Well i was thinking of using Windows 8 as my main OS. Since the BETA version is available, will it be Ideal to rather keep it as a secondary one rather than the primary one.

Na i would't use it yet. Still not soon enough as its a developer preview and not a beta. A lot of stuff don't work on it yet.

 

[CaedenV]

There is no beta out, only the Developers build. Personally I would not use it as a main OS until Beta is out, but I do have it on my netbook and it runs fine. I did try it on my desktop, and it works very well for something that is pre-beta, but it is not ready for prime time yet.

But yes, download it, play with it, see if you like it, but I would not depend on it for my main OS until Beta or RC1 like I did with win7.

 

[athornfam2]

before you download it go to the (my review of windows 8) so you don't have to download it if it doesn't look good to you

 

[skeighter]

No problems here, stable as windows 7. Just turned off Metro.

 

[Herr_Koos]

As mentioned by others, this is a dev preview, not a beta. I'm currently running it in a VM for testing purposes.

Windows 8 won't be available for almost a year, so I would not run it as a primary OS just yet. A lot of things will change between now and RTM. Besides, as soon as it is released, you will have to re-install again anyway.

 

[Pyree]

Using any OS that is not in commercial release as primary OS is a bad idea. Reason? Simply because it is not refine enough to be released is a good reason to not use it as primary OS.

 

[abbo001]

I see. Thanks for the advice . Well I am gonna test it out and see how it turns out.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Good Luck,keep us posted!

 

[acoolman]

wow i m using windows xp now

xp is very nice......

 

[Herr_Koos]

wow i m using windows xp now

xp is very nice......

Stop trolling please. How is this relevant?

 

[brucew0617]

You'd better not, Beta version is not so stable right now.

 

[djrabbit]

I would wait for the beta or even full release.

 

[abbo001]

Best answer selected by abbo001.

 

[nikorr]

This topic has been closed by Nikorr.