Maybe I should have expanded a little. What I meant was that while the WinRT environment is horrible to use on a touchless desktop environment (for me, at least

Maybe I should have expanded a little. What I meant was that while the WinRT environment is horrible to use on a touchless desktop environment (for me, at least), Windows 8 can easily be changed to feel almost exactly like Windows 7 (which I can use very efficiently). At the same time, whenever I have a touch-based device I can still make use of all the WinRT features. Long story short, Windows 8 may look like a UI disaster at first, but for devs at least it's almost irrelevant because you can change pretty much everything, and get used to or ignore the rest. Like I said earlier though, I'm not sure how much reconfiguration the mainstream user wants to do, or how easily they'll get used to WinRT.