No offense but that's pretty narrow minded, dismissing legitimate criticisms and concerns about the O/S as "pessimism" for the sake of being "cool". I've got easily 300 hours into Win8 beginning with the earliest betas available on TechNet last year and even with a few weeks into the RTM now forcing myself to use it as a daily driver, hoping for that "a-ha" moment where the migraines melt away, that just hasn't happened. Abso-fkking-lutely hate it.
I think people just can't understand why the biggest pushback and criticism isn't even coming from the expected external sources like Linux or Apple fanboys trying to trololol comment sections, but Microsoft's biggest proponents and fans that have been with them since MS-DOS's earliest days (I've got 28 years into MS myself and no Apple device is even allowed in my house), who are now unhappy being force-fed a dumbed-down "Lifestyle" tablet interface, the total and complete hijacking of the desktop by essentially sidebar gadgets made fullscreen and monochrome. And people have to deal with it or use third party tools to circumvent to an extent, if they simply want the under-the-hood improvements to the kernel, memory handling, better performance of regular windows apps, etc.
It's encouraging that some people have convinced themselves they like it - and maybe they really do - but the big picture here is this is an O/S in crisis. MS has really dug a hole and simply hiding their heads in the sand is going to cost them, especially in enterprise.. If you thought the "PC's shipping with Vista but bundled with optional XP downgrade" epidemic that MS was forced to relent to was the mark of a blunder, Win8 will be hundreds of times worse than that. Even Microsoft OEM's and hardware partners are already building their own Start menu replacements -- their PARTNERS.
MS is in for a bumpy ride the next 6 months as adoption rate remains poor to stagnant (not my words - that's pretty much every analyst everywhere).
I haven't used windows 8 much yet, but what exactly do you hate about it?
From what I could tell it should be just as easy to use as windows 7, except that there is the metro thing instead of the start menu. But is that really such a big deal? I mean in windows 7 I rarely even use the start button/menu. The only time I even open it is to search for a program using the search box.
The desktop functionality is the same isn't it?
I guess I'll have to spend some more time with it first, but I don't see what's so bad about it.