Comment Re:I can assure you... (Score 1) 642
All the benchmarks and real life usage I have seen show Windows 8 to boot faster and be as fast as Windows 7 at worst. How is that more bloated?
"Bitch/whine/cry. Metro sucks, I don't have a touchscreen, Valve hates Windows, I'll never use it, cry cry cry."
That should be all the evidence you need. After all, if all these people are complaining about it as though Microsoft unloaded a dump truck full of Legos onto their bathroom floors, it must be terrible!
Windows has been a fairly lean, ever-evolving piece of tech for quite some time now, starting with Windows 2000. Any time anything changes, you'll find a subset of vocal assholes that'll go out of their way to flip their shit whenever given the chance (rumor has it that New Coke was actually better), and I personally just find it to be fucking annoying. They'll eventually shut up when the next thing to bitch about comes along.
I've used every iteration of Windows for pretty much its entire lifecycle as a flagship OS since Windows ME. They all worked just fine. XP was great. Vista was great. 7 was great. And Windows 8... Yup. Great.
There are things about every single iteration of the product that are improvements and drawbacks from previous versions. I could list them and whine like a bitch on the internet all day, but instead I just read up on how the new stuff works, learn how to use it effectively, and enjoy being more informed than the average, whiny troll.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it'll never get any better. People will never like what they don't understand, but it's very easy to read a single description and mock or hate something forever. Take the time to educate yourself of the differences in the old vs. the new. Actually justify your own opinions, and simply enjoy the fact that your opinion will be worth more than that of just about all the trolls put together.