I recently replaced Win7 with Win8 on my gaming rig. I get faster boots, and more disk space for games on my SSD. There's a setting for going to desktop instead

I recently replaced Win7 with Win8 on my gaming rig. I get faster boots, and more disk space for games on my SSD. There's a setting for going to desktop instead of Metro when no apps are open. So the only time I use metro is when I mistakenly left click the start button - to shut down, you can _right_ click the start button to get a contextual menu with a shut down option. Overall, I find Win8 better in every way, it's nothing new that you have to change a few options to make Windows usable :)