I've heard windows 8 is supposed to run better or something but that's it for the good, I tried it for a little in vmware and it was a little bothersome with the metro thingy replacing the start bar and all, I found
this but didn't get around to actually trying it out, i can't see myself switching over to it ( But I also said the same for 7/Vista when using XP, though those two were designed more for actual desktop computers/laptops, this thing seems like it has some kind of split personality ), especially with steam coming to linux and all, that's gotta pave the way for at least a bit of a more gaming friendly linux