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by derefr 4900 days ago
> The old desktop mode was great at first, until I realized there wasn't a start button

There's a start button, it just doesn't look like anything. Throw your cursor to the bottom-left corner and click. (And the little "show desktop" widget is still in the bottom-right corner as well.)
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genwin 4900 days ago
Make sure it's the one pixel in the very bottom left corner, or it'll just make the desktop icon that displays go away. And once on the desktop you still can't do anything; there's no start button or menu or anything. I guess if I spend a weekend on Google I could figure out the magical secret. Seems to me it should be a bit more intuitive than that.
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gnud 4900 days ago
Invisible GUI elements seems to be all the rage these days.

I don't get it - why would you want it invisible, even if you're using touch?

(this goes for special "swipe-in" stuff too, not just for the start menu)

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