I am so tired of socially and otherwise completely clueless geeks telling me that Windows 8 was good “in all the ways that matter for an OS.”

I don’t care how lean it ran. I don’t care how fast it opens a window. I don’t care how much-improved the invisible internals are.

To me – and to most people – if the experience of using an OS is crap, the OS itself is crap.

Why is this so hard for many geeks to understand?

I am a geek –- and have been actively using computers since I was four and am very comfortable at the command line – but I care about the interface far more than I care about some hidden system that makes something 0.02% faster.