Not impressed by metro start screen?

[Guest LiquidCrystalMeth]

http://customization...t.com/#/d4z4ny9

Doesn't take over your entire screen when you want to use it. Not that I recommend using it either, I think metro "tiles" are largely a waste of space.

Metro and those tiles are hideous, thats just a fact, if i had to look at that every day, i'd end up topping myself for having devolved.

Personally i think theyve designed it that way because they know the general IQ of people is falling and they need childish big tiles to click on, eventually people will become so stupid that that the interface will show one big tile for "i need someone to dress me"

The start menu worked fine, if you knew how to use it, and werent lazy. Now theres this childish overlay and to get to places that were easily accessible via the start menu you have to go different corners of the screen?

A huge leap forward in usability.

Might have to go to debian, kudos for them getting rid of now awful bloated Gnome 3 and going back to Xfce for usability (dont beleive its just because they couldnt fit Gnome on the CD/DVD).

You could learn something from that Microsoft.

[J.Jensen]

Obviously not everyone is going to like Windows 8, but most of the complaints come from inexperience. What I was trying to show with this topic is that it is adaptable for a desktop user. Of course it will feel very different compare to what we are used to, but any change we are not used to feels odd and we just have to learn to deal with it. I didn't like the start screen myself when I first tried Windows 8 but I adapted and found myself finding it more convenient and easier to use. Of course not everyone will agree with this, but if I could adapt to it, I'm sure there's more out there that can do it as well.

To make a few things clear, you do not need to use any of the apps that comes with windows 8, in fact you can uninstall all of them which i personally did. To make it easier to understand the start screen, see it as a fullscreen start menu. You can re-create the start screen to show everything the start menu did. You access it the same way by clicking on the bottom left corner or use the windows key on your keyboard (which I prefer). You can even combine everything the start menu had to offer and all your personal shortcuts you use to have on the desktop, this will make your desktop work area clean and only shows what it needs to show (like I have it as can be seen on the screenshots.)

What I like the most is that I can pick all the things I use the most and combine it all to one place for easier access. If you think about it, it kind of make sense to have a start screen.

[devHead]

Agreed.. it looks nice, but that doesn't make it more functional than the start menu was..It does make it take up far more space though.. which can be a pain depending on your mouse speed and resolution..

That said, those do look nice.. Wish you could make your own tile icons though.. rather than it just using the app icon :/

You can create your own tile icons (for the non-Metro apps). Right-click on the icon, and at the bottom, select 'Open file location'. It will open the location of the shortcut, and you can change the icon there. It will reflect the new icon on the Start screen.