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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by frigg on Sunday October 27, 2013 @03:41AM (#6621162)
>If we ignore the metro side of things

Yes, absolutely. My start screen is an empty, blue wall with a large tile taking me to the desktop. Despite the start screen I like everything else about the system.

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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by gnur on Sunday October 27, 2013 @04:23AM (#6621256)
That's a shame, the start screen is very useful place to organize shortcuts to your most often used tasks. I use oblytile to generate custom shortcuts and I have (organized by location / purpose) 12 shortcuts to start a ssh/rdp session to a remote server. It also has shortcuts to spotify/outlook/xencenter/vsphere and gmail.
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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by _random_ on Sunday October 27, 2013 @07:26AM (#6621608)
But that is just your Start menu expanded to take the whole screen... Were you removing all the items from Start menu on older versions of Windows as well?
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Re:My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work... by hexasquid on Sunday October 27, 2013 @04:16AM (#6621239)
The new one has a setting that boots to desktop, if that helps any.
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