I'm not familiar with Metro. On small screens, space is a premium, so I can understand the motivation and want for full screen / less chrome. It's also useful

I'm not familiar with Metro. On small screens, space is a premium, so I can understand the motivation and want for full screen / less chrome. It's also useful when using the computer on a TV. Ideally you want a lower resolution, or to increase font - sizes, windows controls etc. On a larger monitor up close, I have no need to maximise the browser window. I get lost in a sea of white most of the time. In fact sometimes I need to resize the window - to make text more readable (fluid layouts - which I ultimately have more control over). If I'm using tabs, the resizing interferes with the other open web pages though. If I flip back to another page, I may need to then resize again - which is awkward. In this case I'm better off using multiple windows rather than tabs. Which I'd prefer if I had better window management. I think that tabs were really just a hack around crappy window managers. And the real subject here is that of window management. Yes you can use multiple monitors, but you can't assume that people do, or assume the size of their monitors. I got so annoyed with crap window management over multiple monitors - that I prefer to use workspaces. I want to be able to use the keyboard to flip between monitors/workspaces, and move windows between monitors/workspaces. Launch windows on particular monitors. Turn external monitors off and on when I want to. Not having to have one monitor devoted to a task bar etc. Not having windows pop up where you don't expect them. The last time I tried Gnome 3 I had trouble with multiple monitors. I can just about use ARandR under Xfce with an external monitor, but can find multiple workspaces don't work that well with multiple monitors. I'd have thought that you'd actually be able to come up with something very usable with a little thought and common sense. Back to having multiple windows. You pretty much need them for dragging and dropping. Which actually is a pretty awkward manoeuvre in itself. Other times having multiple windows on screen at the same time, is useful for things monitors/notifiers. Or when on messenger. I personally alt-tab lots. But it can some times be jarring. And would be no use if I was wanting to watch something while chatting on IRC. If I had a CCTV application, and wanted to watch four cameras at the same time. Would you leave that to the application, or the window manager? It seems to me that it makes more sense using a window manager rather than doing it in the application. I mentioned tabs already, and currently this UI is totally inconsistent across web browsers, let alone other applications.