Disagree with != troll
If you watched the videos you'd see my exact reasons for disliking W8, considering those videos are what made my decision. Check out the
3rd video in particular.
Basically: Metro is terrible. The OS itself could probably be a pretty nice improvement, but they went and fucked it up with Metro. Go ahead and watch that video... it's not a hate video, it's a review. It actually lists good things about the OS too.
Sad reality is, Metro makes Windows 8 a no-buy for most people that aren't using touch screens.
If
they made
built-in options to remove Metro and enable the Start Menu for the desktop version then maybe I would actually consider the OS. But as it is, it's just not a big enough leap from Vista or 7 to bother jumping. I expect, personally, that they'll learn from their mistakes (yet again) when they bomb sales and it'll either be 'fixed' at a later stage (1-2 years down the line), or that their next OS will avoid these mistakes.
The reason it has to be Microsoft and built-in is because if it isn't then at some point later down the road the functionality that currently disables Metro or restores the Start Menu that people have been using may be patched out or removed entirely, or even just broken. And what then? Then you're sitting there with a broken nearly unusable OS.
I don't see Windows 8 being a huge commercial success because the majority of Windows sells are corporations and no sane Sys Admin will want Windows 8.
One of the biggest arguments against Metro is that it's just inconvenient in a non-touch environment.
- When you right click something, the contextual menu isn't under your mouse, it's instead down at the bottom which puts extra miles on your mouse.
- Most of the Windows 8 apps scroll sideways with vertical scroll and if there is a frame inside the window with a vertical scroll then it will break out of the horizontal scroll and start vertically scrolling that window.
- Some important things are difficult or not possible to find or do with Metro as a replacement to the Start Menu.
- The organization for Programs is very bad, random, and should be in folders. As it is now, it's a clusterfuck and non-productive.
I don't understand honestly why Metro concerns, sorry "Modern UI", are being overlooked. If they're points that are important to a lot of people, then they're pretty good reasons to either not buy or to wait for official changes.
"Modern UI" should have never made it to desktop. That's my honest opinion. Setting up a compatible OS for touch, that's fine. But don't bundle it on a desktop OS. That's just a design decision that will result in commercial failure.
