After spending a few hours playing with settings, tweaking registries, and all that, I liked the new UI. I cant say it was too unfamiliar (flow wise) since I used to use gnome 3 (linux desktop environment) which one could easily argue Microsoft ripped off many aspects off of gnome 3. I will say it is unfriendly as hell and I can't believe how many places there are to change settings. I mean most things in general are trying to condense things making them a 1 stop shop, windows 8 I had to google where to do just about anything. The learning curve imo is way to great for windows 8 being a supposed top tier OS.
Also wth is with the ugly window decoration now? Aero was sexy, I donno what they were thinking. Also having some things be "apps" and some things be "programs" is ridiculous to me. Also I feel the search is flawed in the metero UI.
I will admit, once I learned it, I like it. I do enjoy the faster boot time also. I had lower resource usage and thus better battery life on the laptop.
However, I no long use windows at all (besides on my laptop just to view sites on different browsers), put the same time you spent screwing around with windows over the years into a linux based OS, you might be much happier
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