As far as i can tell it's more like 1/3 like windows 8 1/3 like windows 8 sans metro UI and about 1/3 are complaining about it for a myriad of reasons. Best advice i could give you is to just give it a real, unbiased chance. Cannot guarantee you will love/hate it, but a lot of the metro hate really is being completely overblown.

how can windows 8 be so completely unusable for content creation when looking at the desktop it is a near 1:1 copy of windows 7. any content you can create on 7 you can create on windows 8. windows 8 start menu just looks and works a little different then the one in windows 7.

here i fixed this for you. Most of these comments are from stupid people who either (1) work for Mcdonalds or (2) wish they did. Why is it fashionable to say "OH NO! windows 8 is the worst even though I've never used it" Windows 8 is great and most of you are just being giant manchildren and or riding the anit-win8 bandwagon because it's oh so cool.

But that video linked earlier is NOT about how a 3 year old does thing, it is showing how EASY it is to use, and learn your way through a few new changes to a UI. It shows how completely hyperbolic these "adults" are when they claim that windows 8 is UNUSABLE. The fact is they are extremely anal retentive and have yet to give windows 8 a real unbiased chance.

Metro apps are designed to be very simple, quick full screen apps. if you want to "work" you would not be doing so through a metro app. you would use a real software program witch would not run through metro and thus it would works 100% the same as windows 7. you can have 500 windows open side by side if you wish.

no, he IS an idiot. he could not figure out how to close a metro app. you click and you drag it down to the bottom of the screen and let go. real super easy. He spent 30 minutes and could not figure this out. It took me about 8 seconds. He is an idiot.

The other huge thing waiting to be noticed is that there is not very much "to get used to" going from winxp to windows 8 that all these people that have never used windows 8 seem to think exist, other then a different Start Menu interface. the other parts of the OS are about 99% the same as 98/xp/vista/7 just a few things reworded and some graphic updates. windows explorer is still there, control panel, device manager, blah blah everything is there, and it's even in the SAME place. it's just that now it works better, and faster than winxp. Though you would have to actually use it to know this, and not on 12 year old hardware.

Or maybe there are people on this planet who are not giant man-children who actually want their preferred OS to be improved upon. This does not make them a "fanboi" nor does this necessarily mean they are a Microsoft shill either. Some people on this planet have the ability to be subjective, and are able to separate the pro's from the con's. and not lump everything together as in "this all sucks" or "this is all great" some people have the ability to recognize both, and are not necessarily super forgiving, or super willing to put up with problems, or bad designs.

every single time a new version of windows comes out there will always be a small, yet vocal crowd stirring up the pot. "i have never used windows 8, but I KNOW it sucks". This is 100% a 1:1 mirror of the vista release. oh noo this UAC crap is everywhere oh no my life is ruined. never mind that a lot of the problem had to do with 3rd party developers not using the new UAC guidelines. a few months after vista, and people educated themselves, actually used vista, 99% of the UAC hate was gone. Now here we are doing the same dance all over again. While all you anal retentive's scream, whine, and throw a tantrum, everyone else is happily using windows 8 and enjoying it. I actually pity most of you who are turning 3 shades of red over your exclamations of how terrible some OS is that you have never used, or even given a real chance. anyways, i'l see you guys in windows 9, with the SAME metro UI still, or windows 10, or however long it takes you guys to get over your OS tantrum this time.

Wow i thought all the CEO's of today's world were all psychopathic assholes. It's really cool to see there is at lest 1 CEO left on this planet that is an actual living, human being with a real beating heart.

you can access control panel in windows 8 faster than you ever could in any version of windows. Move mouse curson to bottom left corner, and instead of left clicking, RIGHT CLICK. You will be treated to a nice context menu, of witch one of the many option is "control panel". Also the my computer icon has been replaced with the new windows explorer icon. If you click the windows explore icon you get the EXACT same window as if you had opened "my computer". You just have to learn to not be a giant man baby about windows changing things around to notice.