personally i dont get the win8 hate, all the problems are cosmetic and easily fixed. the underlying OS itself is a solid improvement over win7.
I got it after visiting a place, and there was that chick with a Windows 8 laptop. I came expecting to pry vital data from a flat dead laptop and refurbish the situation in a dirty McGyver way (because that's what was I told initially) but the computer was
working. And AV, microsoft updates up to date i.e. nothing to do.
But no Classic Shell or stuff installed, two fracking search toolbars in Firefox (damn. I never had any single toolbar infection in Firefox, so where do you remove that crap from, I don't know yet) and ARHGRRBLRL !!$$!!##!!§§ : Windows Update doesn't come up in "Start screen search". That's a horrible way to discover the "it doesn't search the settings" feature I had probably read about here.
So I wasted some precious time, pested over the computer (giving a hateful image of myself), with only a laptop keyboard and cramped touchpad and I had to use the old way of "win+r", "control" only to check there were a couple worthless updates including a 482 or 672MB download for Microsoft Office Home and Student Ransomware Edition.
On a desktop PC with a real mouse and keyb and reasonably under your control, Windows 8 is prolly great as none of this is really an issue but I find it's a horrible laptop OS (in a cramped situation, and with a touchpad, where you're content when you achieve clicking the right button and doing it under 5 seconds.. It's totally not the situation to try throwing the mouse cursor away in corners)
