File manager, in Metro they want you to click the search icon, type in "This PC" click on it. just to bring it up in desktop. The same was for control panel (which has been changed) and so many other functions. It is simply a nightmare to navigate.
No, it actually isn't once you learn how to use it properly. This is he biggest issue with people.
They refuse to take it in and actually learn how to use it properly then say it sucks.
It's like taking a perfectly good recipe, not paying attention and
actually learn how to make the dish from the recipe then saying the dish sucks.
It's not the recipes fault.
I liked the old installation of apps in 8, over the new version. In Win 8 it placed it at the end and you moved it to where you want, with the new, it puts it in the all apps, the only way I can find them if I re-sort by date, all that just to add it to the start screen, extra steps again.
This was complained about by so many that MS made the change.
So, there ya go. People didn't like it that way and MS changed it.
Now others don't like it.
So I ask, which is it, People get listened to and things get changed by popular demand, or what?
I could go on and on, bottom line is that it takes so much time just to do basic functions, mapping drives, networking troubleshooting, those all go back to the desktop. Honestly, the only way I can use Windows 8, is with my Start8, Modern Mix and Decor8.
Decore8 provides zero functionality to the start screen. it is purely cosmetic, and I thought you hated the Metro GUI?
Why skin it?
Hit the windows key and start typing what you are looking for,, it's a heck of a lot faster than the start button.
Hit start key on keyboard, type exp and hit enter, takes like 2 seconds
At top click Map Drives, it's right there, i can completely map a drive in about 30 sec as long as I know exactly the path and stuff
But it is a lot easier to get at through the start button on the keyboard. Basicaly, hot keys and typing.
Less time off the keyboard, and less Mouse use can make moving around and getting to things twice as fast.
Most people have no need to get at the Control Panel often, so that is moot.
Knowing what you want to do and getting it done in Win8, is a lot faster than in 7, sorry, that is a fact not opinion.
But you have to learn how to use it properly.
Poor apps, they really have nothing, other and games, clocks and calculators, that are really useful. I even use the desktop Netflix over the metro app. Anything useful is a legacy application, hence the desktop again.
They should have refined Windows 7, instead of burying it, and left Metro as a backend. People don't hate Windows 8, but why use it, if you don't have to. Just my two cents worth and apparently millions of others. If you like it fine, for me, I just think it is poorly designed. Plus, I think it is ugly.
Keep in mind that, the App Store is new, how long did it take Android and Apple to get a proper store?
They have had several years. Give it time.