strollin
Well-Known Member
I've seen this same statement over and over about Metro "doesn't work on a desktop monitor". While I'm not a fan of the Metro interface, it seems to work fine on my desktop. I have all the tiles set to small so they're all uniform in size and I uninstalled virtually all of the Metro apps since they are pretty pathetic. I can scroll back and forth with the mouse and can add as many new tiles as I wish. It is completely functional although ugly and I spend very little time using Metro since I almost always click on the desktop tile and use Win 8 from there. Metro might be OK if it was more customizable.Just tried Windows Phone 7 on the my Dad's new Nokia Lumina 710. The whole "Metro" UI works really well for Phone 7 on the smartphone and I imagine it also works well for the tablets, but it just doesn't work on a 24" monitor with Windows 8... Nice concept for mobile devices, but not good for the desktop. ...
I don't miss the Start menu in Win 8 much since I rarely use it in other versions of Windows either. I prefer to add links to my desktop, then hide the icons and use a desktop toolbar on the taskbar to be able to access my apps.