I believe it can be set up to give you the All Apps view too
which is pretty similar to a start menu, except it takes up the whole screen - but at least isn't an utter waste of time, and learnable.
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gaijintendo Regular Member,
Tue 18 Jun 2013, 7:44,
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Learnable, but slower, less ordered and thus not as user friendly.
It feels like a cluttered desktop, rather than a navigation.
I ended up just pinning loads of stuff to the task bar for the sake of quick access.
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monkeon schmonkeon,
Tue 18 Jun 2013, 9:53,
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