I use win8 on my desktop, laptop, phone, and surface - absolutely love it. Different? Yes. Bad? To the contrary. It moves the windows experience into the modern, multiple device world. Can’t beat having all of your work kept in sync across all devices.
My desktop isn’t touch and win8 is just as easy to use as win7 and XP for those that like to use a 15 year old technology.
what kind of work do you do?
When I am trying to open a File Explorer to look at data out put fuile, run the Visual Studio debugger, run my program AND a Word document containing the specs, a tablet interface that makes those ‘apps’ run full-screen DESTROYS my productivity