If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the years, there’s a reasonable chance that Windows 8’s Metro start screen and interface design language would make it your choice. In 2012 the software company abandoned their tried-and-tested desktop whose roots extended back to Windows 95 in favor of the colorful blocks it had created for its line of music players and mobile phones.
Consumers weren’t impressed and it was quickly shelved in subsequent versions, but should you wish to revisit Metro you can now get the experience on Linux. [er-bharat] has created Win8DE, a shell for Wayland window managers that brings the Metro interface — or something very like it — to the open source operating system.
The most beautiful horror to ever exist lmao
I think this is because they are forced to because of how many companies didn’t want to update software to the latest OS. I remember the times when Microsoft had all sorts of compatibility issues with XP.
I remember being able to play fairly old games with 'run in compatibility mode for ‘98’ or something (a right-click menu item maybe?), so guess we have different recollections there