kim: real men don't GUI

That said my desktop at home is a Win7 machine, which I actually don't mind. My laptop is a macbook air, so OSX there. I played around a bit with Windows 8 in a VM. I'm sure it's fine, but it's just so different I can't get used to it. My work laptop is still Win XP, it's hard to swap between all these versions and OS' ..

Windows 8 w/start button would probably be fine. The problem is, long ago desktop PCs started getting high resolution monitors etc, and we don't WANT to run everything full screen anymore. Those ideas went out with Windows 95, so I don't know why 20 years later they're back. I have a 27", 2560x1440 monitor on my desk. Why the hell do I want the calculator app full screen? Just makes no sense to me. My desktop doesn't use a touch screen, nor would I want to reach up and do stuff with it if it did. It's not a tablet. I don't want this stuff on my desktop.

Everything else I own runs some variety of Linux, none of which have a GUI at all.