GameRager: While his comment was a bit harsh I believe your reply was a bit (unneededly) harsh as well.
Also(not trying to troll/incite anything here, but) you seem to do things similar to(though not as rude/harsh as) what King does.......i.e. whenever a thread/post that is even somewhat anti-Win 8 comes up(even those with valid/thought out complaints) you(seemingly) keep brushing them aside like those people's complaints are invalid and Win8 is the best thing since sliced bread.
Nah I do actually admit to faults in it the interface does cause a little disconnect at first it's easy to adjust to though as long as your willing to give it a go
Note: Decent OS is an opinion, not fact, and varies depending on who is using it. Also enough has changed in Win8 that some people are disliking/complaining about it, and not all are ranting against it or trying to dislike it for no reason.
How is it a matter of opinion? Does it do everything the highly adored 7 does? yes does it have some extra features? yes does it have some bad points? yes do the good outweigh the bad? yes, therefore OS is decent
It is for me(and apparently others as well). I use the start menu in Win7 alot more than 15 seconds a day, and I don't think i'd like to have to(or that I should have to) be forced to have a fullscreen window(metro UI) pop up and block the entire desktop every time I want to use the start menu/Metro UI.
What do you actually use it for? Is it to load say the same 10 programs every time? if yes pin them to the taskbar its a single click then! Is it to find a program? you'll flash to metro for maybe 5 seconds to do the same thing sure you'll have a flash of colour but it's not that bad
BTW, I also make desktop icons/etc for frequently used programs but I don't want to/shouldn't have to clutter them all over my desktop so as to avoid having to use the new metro interface to start a program/perform some other function which I can do now with a few clicks through the start menu(which only takes up <10% of my screen when open[Allowing me to keep viewing whatever is open on the desktop while I do so.]).
Why are you using desktop shortcuts if it's something you use a lot? pin it man!
Yes but the Win95 desktop was easier to use/get used to than this new interface is(imho), and it was also better optimized for desktops and not for tablets.
Hell no it wasn't it was a HUGE goddamn change much huger than TIFKM is. "What the hell is this crap wheres my menus?" "why do I have all this empty space I want my programs where I can see them!" starting to sound familiar?
(To be honest, if they'd implemented the changes better I wouldn't even be complaining about/against Win8 that much....i.e. maybe making the metro UI take up 25% of the screen when it's active/etc.)
the full screen happily allows livetiles which are readable I tend to only flick to it to look at the live tiles (mail for example) and see the updates
It may not OFFICIALLY be for tablets but it's way more optimized/usable on a tablet, thus the comments about it being a tablet interface and a sucky desktop/laptop interface. As I said above, one size does not always fit all, and the way MS implemented metro in the desktop version of Win8 was inane(right term?).
No it's not a sucky interface for desktops honestly I sometimes wonder why people say this everytime maybe because it looks so hugely different, it's really no big change to what your used to and actually simplifies some of the things most people use it for
Many have said what is wrong with it, but you don't seem to agree that anything is wrong with it. This doesn't mean you're right and they are wrong, however.
Show me whats wrong with it in reality not in FUD land. One brief list of all it's faults that doesn't include:
It's unusable on desktop!
That is the ONLY reason most people say, they bitch and moan that it's completely unusable while not telling us why.
