I'm slowing and surely getting used to Windows 8. It is no doubt a slow process since I still run daily on an XP machine, a Vista machine, and 3 windows 7 box. A new quirk I found regarding Windows 8. I never thought it was important to learn how to close a "formerly known as Metro" app (what do we call those these days?). Then I attached a portable drive to my laptop and opened up a PDF file, and I couldn't safely remove the hard drive afterwards because I did not know how to close the PDF reader ......
Today is the second day I'm using a Windows 8 laptop. Load up time is fast, and changing applications is very smooth. However, I keep finding myself hitting the windows key (double-clicking a PDF file, and, what? How do I get back?)
Other than that, the experience has been fine. So far this has not been any worse than other windows upgrade experience I had so far. No bad news is good news here.