LOL! Yep, I would. I have Win8 as a dual boot along with Win7. I play around in Win8, but do my work in Win7. For the first few days everything was fine. But last Friday I started having problems shutting down Win8, or trying to reboot into Win7. I hit shutdown or reboot and it goes right back to the Metro screen. At times it begins the shutdown process, but goes to a black screen and the laptop is still powered. Nothing allows the system to shut down completely, nor can I get back to the Win8 desktop. I have to pull the plug and battery.
A Google search shows others have had the problem as well. So, I'm staying away from it for now.
I’ve been using Win8 for a few months now. I initially reacted negatively to the learning curve, but I could not deny the better frame rates and benchmarks I was getting.
I went back to Win7 after a week and figured I’d skip this release, before finally breaking down and-reinstalling it. My second run with it I took the time to really learn all the little shortcuts and tricks and began to find the things that really impress me about the OS.
Now I keep my Windows 7 array alive and well on a pair of disconnected disks (in case of emergency, break glass) but have found no compelling reason to go back to it, and several to stay with 8. Fortunately, I’ve had none of the shutdown issues (I suspect that’s related to power management, and changing to high performance mode, or disabling Hibernate will work around it).
I also found the aesthetic to be nice once I figured out how to customize and organize the Start screen. It truly is a slick, if somewhat schizophrenic OS that will bridge the gap from the older NT-style interface to an active desktop future.
In my mind, there are only two items Microsoft really has to solve: The first is making Metro friendlier to multitasking and multiple windows (in Metro), and the second phasing out the old fallback desktop as a stopgap to solve item 1.
Otherwise, this really is a stellar OS with just a slightly steeper learning curve.