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.

Thank you. I’m going to try this.

Shouldn’t the titles be the other way around?

Another option is just refusing to own a linerlock. I can close them, I just dislike the design and insist on lockback for any folder I carry.

Plenty of bots already migrating content, see about making a bot do the moving for you.

I’m wary of those same people.

You don’t have to feel bad, but if you make some adjustments, it becomes easier for people to read and understand your point. As it was, scrolling past your post would be easy for those interested in your topic, simply because the first bit had nothing to do with the actual content.

Do you notice that your title and the first quarter of your post are rambling about posting, instead of focusing on the content of your post? There was little idea what the post was about until halfway through the main body. Consider the following alterations, naming the post more like “login issues” or " unable to log in", and deleting everything in the body before “I was going to log in”. Put a little context in the middle of the post, if necessary; we don’t need a prequel to your choice to post as an introduction.

I moved my tech-phobic mother’s laptop from windows to Ubuntu and the support calls went from several a week to a couple a month. The type of calls changed from needing me to do something, to asking how she could do something. I would suggest Ubuntu to anyone looking to get started with an ULOS.