Windows 8, and people moaned about Unity

[lykwydchykyn]

Making Win8 behave in a conventional Win7/XP way is way easier than modifying Unity to act like Gnome2.

If you want to compare apples and oranges, finding another Linux distro that behaves how I want it to is easier than finding another Windows distro.

[mips]

If you want to compare apples and oranges, finding another Linux distro that behaves how I want it to is easier than finding another Windows distro.

True words

[MadmanRB]

The three major things going against windows 8 is:

1: Not everyone having touchscreens, and navigating with the mouse is horrible.
2: Its forcing the same UI for all devices, while it may work on mobile phones my desktop computer is neither mobile or a phone.
3: It really brings nothing new to the table except for a new UI, really I dont think windows 7 will go away anytime soon and will see a lifespan expansion like XP did.

As for installing classic shell in windows 8, pointless as windows 7 is still viable and will be for some time

[Dragonbite]

The three major things going against windows 8 is:

1: Not everyone having touchscreens, and navigating with the mouse is horrible.

True, but on laptops with trackpads, doing a 2-finger swipe is pretty darn easy. I'm not saying it is as good as a touchscreen, or is what I want but it is usable from my limited testing.

[Fahim Abdun-Nur]

For Desktop users: Does an Apple magic trackpad work in Windows? Hmm...somewhat curious now; probably would be cheaper than replacing my existing monitor setup.