Tablet??

It's just a regular desktop, with the taskbar on the side. I have tried to use it on a tablet. Really. It's unusable. It relies heavily on the keyboard. Gnome shell is better on a tablet. In fact unity is too much like a windows 7/mac os hybrid.

But I got used to it and since 12.04 I think it has reached a very nice level of usability. You just tap super or alt and write. No more searching in menus, be it the current application menu or the system menu.

They have a lot of ground to cover towards consistency overall but they're working on it.

What I hate most is the new adware thing, especially because it involves amazon.

Now back on topic:
Windows 8. This is a tablet OS. With a desktop mode. Awesome, I always wanted a tablet with desktop mode (just like easy debian). The desktop isn't disruptive in the tablet workflow, it's just another app.

The other way around I think it's awful. The already complicated Three level multitasking (apps->windows->tabs) has now become 5 level. OS -> metro apps -> desktop -> apps -> windows -> tabs. And you can't switch between a metro app and a desktop app but with alt+tab (if they haven't changed it after the consumer preview). I think they broke the whole concept of multitasking with those two levels, when you are working primarily on desktop mode.

P.S. I just want to go to a store and hide and wait for the first wave of disgruntled WinRT customers comes back and this happens:
-- I downloaded winrar and it says I can't install it, it has a problem
-- No you can't install apps on WinRT it's like the iPad
-- But the store doesn't have many apps like the iPad.
-- It will grow
-- Never mind, take it back and give me an iPad