If you summarize all the Win 8 threads, there are basically 2 points of view -
1. Win 8 is great on tablets, not so much on desktop and is a pain to use for most people and is less productive
2. Win 8 is great everywhere, you need to learn the new ways on the desktop, don't hate change, the new UI is just as good or better.
heatlesssun, chinesepiratefood etc are firmly in the #2 camp. For everyone else (#1) all the complaints are about Metro on desktop only. Everyone agrees WinRT is great, and the kernel changes are great.
Absolutely correct. I don't think I've read a single post saying Metro sucks on a tablet, in fact, I bet most people would lump heaps of praise about it, on a tablet. And as much as I bitch about Metro on the desktop, I have every intention of getting a Surface tablet when they come out, because I really think they built a great tablet OS.
You know what else? They built a nice desktop OS too.
They simply do not work well together on the same machine. This is what 99.999% of the complaints have been about. If MS would simply separate the experiences better, all the bitching and complaining would magically disappear.