Believe what you like, John. I'm telling you I use W8 daily and I don't hit Metro at all, and it didn't take rocket science to set that up. I use Windows 8 in entirely "desktop" mode.
However, if you buy a new PC with 8 installed, you can indeed run it in a desktop UI form and never see the tablet style UI. You can, John, lol. I do it every single day, as do many, many others. This is not pulling rabbits out of hats, it's a simple config option in 8.1 u1.
Smarmily condescend all you want, but the fact is that
it will throw you right back to the Start screen any time you try to pull up a menu of your applications unless you employ a third-party hack. If you use vanilla 8.1 and you don't ever see the Start screen, then, well, whatever. Guess an obsessive dependence on taskbar pinning got you
something. But for those of us who actually want to be able to pull up a menu of the applications installed on the computer without having to wade through a tablet-oriented wasteland of giant tiles, that's not an option.
In my view it comes down to two simple questions.
1. Are you a person that does the same things the same way all the time.
2. Are you a person that wants to learn new ways of doing things for the better.
The last question is predicated on the ideal that there may be a better way of doing things. When you approach it with a closed mind of course there's no way it could ever be true.
Or, alternately, you could approach it rationally and simple come to the conclusion that it's terrible because
it is, in fact, terrible. But no, that
can't be it, obviously it must be that everyone who looked at Windows 8 and said "that's stupid!" is just a Backwards Neanderthal Who Hates Change! How can we
help but sneer at them for being so backward as to not unequivocally approve of any new design simply for being new without regard for whether it's actually any good or not?!
