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Originally Posted by ApK
Even if we allow that the inclusion of both Metro and Desktop is good thing for the convergence of computing device types, the changes to the desktop are negative. They changed or removed proven, popular conventions for no good reason. The changes add nothing positive. If Win8 is indeed faster and more secure than Win7 (Is it really? By what standards? How do you judge such a young, unproven OS as "more secure.") it is certainly not because they removed the Start button and obfuscated the program list.
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It's interesting to see each desktop OS try for convergence and end up harvesting consumer annoyance -- Apple for concealing the file tree and cloning iOS limitations in Mountain Lion, Windows 8 for the reasons discussed above, and Linux Ubuntu for its Unity GUI. A friend who just installed Ubuntu 13.10 has been telling me that (a) installation was the smoothest he'd ever experienced on his tower -- every driver worked perfectly -- and (b) Unity is a horrorshow. He had the same reaction to the new Linux GUI that many Windows users have had to 8's (
i.e., he found a way to delete it).
And Mountain Lion annoyed two developer friends so much that they've been talking -- ever since ML was first introduced -- about buying Windows desktops after decades of development solely for Apple devices. Another friend who's a soundtrack composer in LA hates Logic 9 and Pro Tools 11 (both eliminated third-party TDM plugins) so much that he's just returned to Leopard so that he can run Logic 8 and an earlier iteration of PT.
Perhaps Google has the right idea: Creating a laptop/desktop OS that's meant not to be convergent (Android isn't Chrome) but to extrapolate on the laptop-idiomatic ramifications of ideas typically confined to mobile devices without proper keyboards.