Feedback wanted: Top Complaints about Metro

[JuggaloBrotha]

My intent was not to try to counter complaints in this thread, but I did want to comment on the above statement as it is pretty strong.

It is interesting that you see Metro as useless without touch. Have you tried using your mouse? I have found that as I learn the mouse controls to the Metro interface, it has become much less "useless" and at times can be preferred over the desktop for some tasks.

I think the one of the biggest issues with Metro is actually a little thing -- there are no indicators as to how to use the mouse to do things. There is nothing indicating that there are things you can do on the left, right and other locations of the screen. Once you learn the secret handshakes, err mouse controls, I believe the level of uselessness will decrease.....

Brad!
(I use Win 8 on a notebook without touch)

No worries Brad, it may have seemed that I was ranting when I really wasn't.

Since posting that, I have had a chance to use Metro a little bit more, but the mouse gestures isn't very smooth, though as Matt has pointed out he has trouble with the moue gestures in a VM too & I've been using Win8 in VM Ware player because I don't have a spare, modern, computer to install it directly on, unless it can run on a single core 1 GHz system but event Win7 wouldn't install on that comp.

In short, without it working smoothly in a VM I doubt I'll ever like it enough to install on an actual computer, I use the VM's to judge how well something works before using on an actual system.
That being said, I still don't see the point in the Windows Menu not existing on the desktop-only side. What I really mean is why turn off Metro to use just the desktop, just to have to go back to Metro to open a desktop app, all that back and forth becomes really annoying after a days use. If I had any metro apps (sorry, I just dont see VS 2008 & 2010 as well as Office 2003 & 2010 ever being able to run as a metro tile) I would rather just have a real Windows Menu rather than a bunch of Metro tiles being my "shortcuts". It's frankly really bad UI design.