I agree with your thoughts on Win 8. I'm very computer savvy and it takes me a few minutes to find things that should be obvious. Hell, it too me a bit to figure out how the hell to shut it down, so I could boot back into 7 and escape the hell hole! They tucked it of in power settings or some shit.
EDIT: I had decided to dual boot it, since I had a free 30Gb partition, rather than virtualbox it, so it would be a "fair" test, with the whole computer available to it while testing games.