[desireco42]

I really don't know where they clone you guys, but aside from a bunch of macs and some linux, I do have windows machine, on which I spent many happy hours (playing and working).

I upgraded to win8 when it came out, I can't imagine anyone visiting HackerNews being confused by Win8 interface, even businessy lean startup types. Everything so far was good and while I switch to desktop mostly, Metro interface is fine and makes me want to get a tablet (since I have quite a few already, this will not happen soon, again ipads).

My Win machine is at least 3 years old, it feels with W8 way more snappy then my iMac 27" that I got last year. In fact, I am using it now because StarCraft II on iMac got iffy and screen ... well it crashed pretty much.

Again, I don't know why you have such hard time with Win, it works really well. Feel free to ask me any questions. I do spend most of my time on linux and osx, but still...

[edit] Reason why I like win8 so much is that it is modern interface and how future interfaces will be. That is why so many of you feel resistance to it, because it is new.

[gnud]

I'm sure I could get used to win8 quite quickly. I'll probably install it next time I upgrade my windows PC. But admit it - you had no idea how to shut down your computer in win8 until someone told you.

[desireco42]

Yes, first two times, it took me a little to remember that people were saying logout first. However, one of the top apps is Pokki that has shutdown in the place where you expect.

Whole app store thing helps a great deal. You install apps way faster and easier then ever before, like it is on a mac.

I would compare it when Apple changed scrolling, it took some time to get used to it (or flip the setting).

[yuhong]

I still remember the controversy when Vista changed the power button on the start menu to sleep by default.

[progrock]

This still gets me every time.

[genwin]

I've used Windows since version 3.0. After spending a few hours with Win8 I still can't figure out how to so much as display the calculator. I see plenty of others in the same boat.

To get to the desktop you apparently have to click in the very left bottom corner, a single pixel. Choosing the desktop icon that displays when you move the cursor to the lower left corner just makes the icon go away. Maybe it makes perfect sense to everyone else! I think I'll save a lot of time by switching fully to Linux or the Mac.

[acous]

Press the windows key and type "calc". The mouse method isn't so intuitive - use the top/bottom right hot corner and click on search, it's there under windows accessories.

[genwin]

Thanks! And amazing it really is hidden like that.