Don't worry, it sucks on touchscreen laptops too. It just keeps throwing you from Metro to regular desktop, so you keep changing from touchpad to touchscreen. It is just a big usability mistake.

I do have a ttouchscreen is what I'm saying. I try to avoid metro, but having touchscreen be an option also makes it a lot more user firendly than if I had to just use a mouse.

I hate when people say just install the start button. Why is that even necessary? If everyone is doing it MS obviously fucked up removing it so saying just install it doesn't make it right that W8 came without it. Sorry pet peeve.

I really do think Windows 8 is better guys.. I use 8.1 at home.. and I am glad I made the change.. Some people just do not like change..unfortunately..

To all the people claiming that the only reason "haters" don't like w8 is change, may I remind you that people had no problem switching to w7. They did have a problem with vista, because it was actually bad. But they switched from XP to 7 because it was actually better. Change has nothing to do with it. W8 is badly designed for the average user which makes it a bad product.
(it would have been fine if it was called 7.5 and was a niche option like Linux).

To keep it short, I have never been a fan of KDE. To me, again subjectively, it's a bloated resource hog with an ugly menu system and a dated file manager. I only liked the mini KDE versions that come with those like Slax etc. I do respect those who like it though as this is entirely my subjective taste. KDE, in any form, is nothing like the super idiotic Metro Interface. KDE is functional, visual, customizable and it adheres to the principles of its fans.

Meanwhile in the back room Microsoft and HP are laughing at the free press this story is getting and counting the money from Windows 7 and Windows 8 PC sales.

Looks like I'm going with HP on my next lappy - unless my preferred brand makes a change soon.

More efficient, faster, eetc. The UI is different, but I don't really prefer one over the other. If people don't want it, I guess give the consumers what they want, but the UI change isn't that big of a deal. Do we really want the same thing forever? 

8 is designed too central to touchscreens. Overall, I would say it is likely better than 7 but when you use it on a normal computer (Non touchscreen) it is insanely annoying...