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Madness
Been using W8 for a whole 2 hours now and I haven't wanted to murder any puppies or kittens yet..
When I first started it after the setup process I was greeted by the Metro UI, first thoughts "ew piss off" so I switched straight into desktop.
While I downloaded software and stuff I need and got everything set up how I wanted I thought I'd explore Metro, just to give it a chance. It's a very good idea as it's a lot more user friendly than navigating through endless menu's in the start screen and opening folders to find they're empty. It just doesn't look very nice, and it's hard to get rid of a lot of the icons. You right click them, then a little menu bar appears at the bottom saying "remove shortcut", "uninstall" etc. But it's hard to find out what some of these apps actually do, you can hover over them with a mouse but not all of them will display what the app is called or does. Annoying! I removed most of them and started setting up what I want anyway, screw you Microsoft
As for the desktop UI, like Chris has said, it's very much the same as the old Windows layout minus the start button. Instead using the Windows key to access the metro UI, however because the metro UI isn't a complete list of all your applications anymore it's not really that necessary. I'd rather hit Windows + D and be reverted to the desktop (minimise all applications) and select what I want from there. Although I'm in progress of clogging up my taskbar so even that won't be necessary soon.
A lot of the useful features though are an absolute PITA. The laptop as default wouldn't save any passwords for websites because I had to tell MS to 'trust' the PC. This was done by visiting their website, being emailed a code, entering the code and then being told "oh yeah. You aren't using IE so we won't do it". I'd removed both shortcuts for IE cause it's crap, and I couldn't find a search function anywhere! After a google search you have to move your mouse to the top right corner of the screen and a bar appears with several options, one of them being search. Search is, if you ask me, the new Start menu. It displays a complete list of all that you have installed, has a textbox you can type your 'query' into and seperates the Applications into different sections, much like the folders in the old start menu.
Overall though, I think it's just a case of getting used to it. The Metro UI has a place in the OS, I'm just not 100% certain what it is yet. The only thing I can think of is using the start bar shortcuts in Desktop View for one thing, and dedicating Metro to another. Although I think you can make unique columns for specific things in Metro... It just seems a wasted idea though currently, I won't be using it until I can figure out what it's best for. I don't have so many applications that my start bar isn't long enough, nor to fill up my entire desktop with icons. It boots up quickly enough, though I'm sure that's partly to do with the actual laptop than just the OS. The setup process is a lot easier than older windows systems too, I feel. Just had to name the laptop, select a colour and connect to Wifi. Everything else was automated.
All in all though, I won't go out of my way to uninstall it and stick W7 on the laptop. I can definitely live with W8 with ease, just finding out what everything is and where everything is will be slightly annoying
Does that answer your question in the first post, Chris?
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