We need to implement ranked choice voting and abolish the electoral college, or voting third party will remain as effective as screaming into the void.

Never really had a problem with the hidden side menu, though I didn’t care for it either.

I never said it was impossible to keep the old style. Though I do refuse that the start page is only useful to touchscreens. I would have preferred a bit more options than just large or small squares, but it still was a nice way to keep shortcuts close at hand without having them on the desktop. Bringing the shortcut screen over top of everything is much more useful than keeping the shortcuts at the bottom, on the desktop.

Frankly, I found it ridiculous that the start page got so much hate while stuff like bing searches being forced into the local machine search gets no reaction.

I liked the start page. I don’t use icons on the desktop though. Being able to pull up a customized shortcut screen was quite nice.

8 only gets hate because people lost their minds with the start menu change.

Phone boxes can be slick, useful containers for reuse.