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Something to keep in mind is that regardless of the issues with Metro, you can easily ignore it by using software such as Start8[0], which readds a start menu and goes straight to the oldschool desktop when you log in.

Windows 8 has significant performance improvements over Windows 7, so there's no reason not to replace Windows 7 with it at this point for regular, old laptop/desktop use.

0: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

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As a Gnome 3 user, I am overcome with a strange sense of schadenfreude.

Strange, as a KDE 4 user, I too was overcome with a sense of schadenfreude, when I saw Gnome 3. </joke>

As an XMonad user, I am overcome with productivity and have no time to care about the way others work.

As a Unity user, I'm just happy in my own little world.

This is fine for the slightly aware power user (I have Windows 8 set up with Start8 and find it miles better than Windows 7), but if you put yourself in the shoes of your technically incompetent grandmother then you can see how things could be that much harder on Windows 8, especially if they took a long time to get used to the traditional Windows desktop.

I suspect OEMs will start bundling something similar with Windows 8 laptops/desktops. Dell has bundled OS X-like docks in the past.

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