mdmd, I gave my reasons - in detail - why I don't like 8 before you even joined this site. It's not my fault you don't know what they are, and they are no different than anyone else's who isn't a Metro fan.
You Metro lovers are obsessed with being right. It's one of the most bizarre phenomena I've seen in some time - especially with the MS crowd, which isn't typically associated with fanboy-ness. I read this site not to just bash 8, but to learn about other computer stuff - including the latest news on 8, even though I'm not using it. I like to stay informed - might want to try that some time and understand where people like me are coming from instead of insulting their intelligence with stuff like this:
Stating that the lack of a start menu with nested hierarchies makes Windows 8 unusable is inaccurate unless one can make the case in some other way than an opinion. If you need a start menu, then one can be installed.
I just called you out in a comment before you wrote that that saying someone is "irrational" for not like 8, and here you are again - except now I'm not irrational but inaccurate. What gives? I disagree with you, but show me when I called you wrong and irrational for your
opinion?
You don't even know what we've been arguing. I'm laughing, honestly, because this kind of conversation happens repeatedly around here. Do you actually read anything we, the anti-8 crowd, put down? Because we're not hiding it. It's all over the place. I know where you're coming from, upside down and sideways. You do not know the other side nearly as well, because you aren't really interested in knowing. You're interested in being right. You think it's just about a Start button? Ummmmm, no. That's not entirely it. Part of it? Yes. But getting the start button back via 3rd-party software isn't enough for me to upgrade. Even if it were the only issue, it wouldn't be enough because the other improvements are marginal. But what do I know? I'm just a poor slob who's stuck in the past and afraid of touch technology.
Knowing what works for you is not the same as being right. It means you just know what works for you. And I've said this over and over to other people - I'm glad you like 8. Seriously. I don't try to convince you to not like 8. Would be nice if you showed the same respect to those with whom you disagree.