I came home to it installed. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to get out of that stupid Metro screen and back to a desktop. First thing I installed was Start 8. Whew! What a relief! Next was Chrome, followed by Dashlane. Now if feels like one of my computers.

It does seem much faster than Win 7 (this is a tiny netbook). I may consider adding memory and an SSD.

Now, maybe someone can explain this: the screen looks funny. The proportions of the fonts seem all wrong -- a little squished.
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Okay, I figured it out myself. I had to download the driver directly from Intel and run it in Win7 compatibility mode. It gave me an error message, but still managed to install and all proportions are correct again. The problem was that the screen on the ASUS net book is 1366 x 768, but Win 8's driver only supported 1024 x 768.