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Originally Posted by K. Molen
Everything you said in that post is spot on as far as I'm concerned. I've yet to see a complaint about Windows 8 that isn't somewhere rooted in "it's different than before and I don't like it."
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I'm not even going to start typing a complete answer to this, because it would take me half a week, and MobileRead's server would possibly explode when I post that manuscript into the forums. I'll limit myself to Metro and the Start-menu.
Windows 8 just prevents me from doing things the way I want to do them. I *hate* the Start-screen. I *don't* want a full screen start-menu that blanks out my desktop when I want to start a program. The Start-screen can't do some of the things the old Start-menu could. And being thrown out of the desktop into that damned Start-screen each time I hit the Windows-key (which is a lot, since I do many things using the keyboard to avoid having to reach for the mouse), a Start-screen that's half an OS by itself with it's own programs, gives me the feeling that Windows 8 is schizophrenic.
Granted, I've tried Windows 8, cleared the Metro UI, and installed the trial version of StarDock's Start8 to get "my" Start-menu back; a UI-element that MS had been perfecting for almost 15 years, and when they got it almost perfect, they threw it out.
Start8 makes Windows 8 workable; but if you do that, you've just got Windows 7 with a new, flat 80's-like look, and some teeny-tiny improvements to the desktop and internals. After blocking out Metro with Start8 and returning the (a) Start-menu, Windows 8 does not offer me anything new.
I've got a computer that is working fine, and runs everything I want it to run. I also got a non-used Windows 7 x64 English license lying around. (Having had Technet / MSDNAA-access from 3 places at once due to circumstances netted me 3 legal copies, 2 of which I've used to upgrade Vista on my desktop and notebook, and one is still in the drawer.) A new computer, which is probably due in a year, maybe 1,5 years, will also run Windows 7, right up to 2020.
Then I will see what I'll run on my main workstation (keeping my current and next computer to run my old games). Definitely it will not be Apple on that post-2020 computer. Maybe not Microsoft, we'll see. FreeBSD is a good candidate, if I can build a computer with hardware for which FreeBSD has drivers. It's the only Unix-like OS (beside OSX) that doesn't feel like it's made up of half a million 2x2mm Lego bricks.