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I like how people comment on the UI of Win 8 when they clearly have not used it. The new Modern(ex Metro) UI is a big Start menu(now called start screen). You

I like how people comment on the UI of Win 8 when they clearly have not used it. The new Modern(ex Metro) UI is a big Start menu(now called start screen). You go to it only when you login to your machine after restart, after a login from sleep/hibernate/lock if you have left it on the desktop , it stays there. Everything else is like or better than Win 7. Also you only go to the start screen when you need to find or start an app. Yes , for some users it would suck to see the Start Screen after booting, would be nice if there was option to select which screen to show after boot. Also , the Start Screen is very good tool for organizing Apps. You can create columns of apps (not automatically though) by type , use case or whatever order your heart desires. And i find the start screen better replacement of the desktop for placing my icons ( i dislike cluttered desktops as i see it more often than the Start Screen)

xpose2000 14y ago
Windows 8 has bad connotation associated with it and there is no going back. And it's all due to a UI that can be ignored completely. Funny how that happens. It's a solid incremental upgrade that they will miss out on. Everything you said is absolutely true.
ct 14y ago
If you close/open a lot of apps due to memory constraints then you have to leave the desktop a lot and it's jarring. The start screen makes it slower to launch apps when you have a lot of apps you frequently used due to scrolling. I just want a fast way to launch apps.
- simplyinfinity 14y ago
  You are right, that can be painful. One solution to this might be to just pin your most frequent apps to the taskbar instead? (browsers/windows explorer/photoshop/whatever you use ) :) p.s. you can move around the pinned icons on the start screen, move the most frequent more to the left so you don't have to scroll :)

xpose2000 14y ago

Windows 8 has bad connotation associated with it and there is no going back. And it's all due to a UI that can be ignored completely. Funny how that happens. It's a solid incremental upgrade that they will miss out on. Everything you said is absolutely true.

ct 14y ago

If you close/open a lot of apps due to memory constraints then you have to leave the desktop a lot and it's jarring. The start screen makes it slower to launch apps when you have a lot of apps you frequently used due to scrolling. I just want a fast way to launch apps.

simplyinfinity 14y ago
You are right, that can be painful. One solution to this might be to just pin your most frequent apps to the taskbar instead? (browsers/windows explorer/photoshop/whatever you use ) :) p.s. you can move around the pinned icons on the start screen, move the most frequent more to the left so you don't have to scroll :)