(somewhere in left field)
uisukii wrote:
The start menu isn't "totally removed", at all. It took a whole allotment of seconds to find this article explaining how to bring about the previous Windows start menu functionality:
http://windows.about.com/od/customizing … dows-8.htm
That's not an article about restoring the start menu, that's an article about using a hidden folder called 'Start Menu' to create a folder-toolbar on your taskbar. That hidden folder does contain a file called Programs that contains links to many programs, but that's not a start menu. The article also includes instructions on how to create shortcuts that mimic many Start Menu features (shut down, control panel, etc.) but you have to create each one manually. Once you're all done it -still- isn't the Start Menu; you have to click on a tiny little spot to open it rather than a big easy-to-hit button, it doesn't automatically list your recently run or most used programs (although you can -- manually -- add shortcuts for things you want easy access to.)
It takes a lot more than 'seconds' to create and maintain this kludgy replacement for the start menu.
This may not be the appropriate place to be discussing this, you're right. However, you went on to attack the very premise of the complaint, and it's simply not true that it's a simply an 'ill-formed misunderstanding'. The Start Menu -is- gone, and kludging up something called 'Start Menu' isn't the same thing at all.
(I do use Windows 8 at the moment, and I've used linux as well. Following that lengthy procedure is nowhere -near- as easy as typing 'apt-get install start-menu' would be, even after possibly manually adding a line for the about.com repository, ... if only Windows actually used a decent package system.)
