I wouldn't put up with that phone OS on a laptop either.
Yer in luck !! He is not stuck with the RT version on his laptop, nor would you be.
He has the desktop version.
Yes I know he has the laptop/desktop version of the phone OS. Hopefully MS comes to its senses and replaces the the metro interface with something useful.
The Metro interface is very useful
Why?
Because I have 58 different desktop (with some live Modern) applications like QuickBooks, VirtualBox, MS Office, PuTTY, etc pinned on a single start screen and all it takes two mouse clicks to run it. Or I'd be stuck with messy start menu