Renzatic on 1/5/2013 at 18:13
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Renz tells it like it is. Basically echoing what's being said. Metro is great... for a tablet. Traditional PC is not tablet. Ergo, fail. Either limit it to fully touchscreen operated laptops/tablets like surface, or just make the metro less invasive on PCs, and everyone is happy!
I don't necessarily agree with all those people who say that Metro doesn't work period with a mouse and keyboard. It does. The act of guiding your cursor to an icon and left-clicking on it isn't much different than pressing it with your finger. Fundamentally, they're about the same action.
The problem with touch interfaces on a computer is that they're a giant waste of space on any screen larger than 15". I don't mind the new start screen itself. I think the fullscreeniness of it offers some advantages the over oldschool start menu. You can put more links up on it (up to and including links for folders, documents and websites with a couple of simple tweaks), organize it better, and get a nicer, easier to follow list of search results out of it. To me, it's like a home screen for everything you're using or working on. It's there when you need it, and doesn't get in your way at all.
But, once again, it's when you start launching Metro apps that things get weird. This is the biggest weakness of Windows 8. It puts all these apps at the forefront, making you want to click them, but all that does is make things more complicated when you do so. Add in the fact you have two versions of the control panel, with the Metro version being the one preferred by the OS, and...yeah. Things could be a helluva lot smoother.
The good news is Windows 8.1 looks to a good first step towards fixing some of these issues, and it's a free upgrade to anyone using 8. At least we know MS is aware of the problems, but this is something they should've been working on this from the beginning, instead of releasing it in it's currently muddled, overly divided state.
faetal on 2/5/2013 at 08:49
Isn't this how most Windows releases work?
Release -> clusterfuck -> everything peachy by SP2
ZylonBane on 3/5/2013 at 00:25
The problems with Windows 8 are a bit more fundamental to the design of the OS than usual, unfortunately. It'll be interesting to see how much they backpedal on some of the more boneheaded design decisions to win back their corporate clients.
