I agree
Admittedly a pre-beta release but I tried it out on my iMac (in a VM so could be the source of the problems). Anyways using a mouse and keyboard after installing the Virtual Box addins.
Horrible, plane horrible. Half the stuff I clicked on didn't open. "Swiping" the tiles left and right was painful, reminded me of trying to move around a map quickly in one of the old command and conquer games and at the same time trying to select units. You know how you used to get everyone but the 3 others you wanted, and when you tried again nothing got selected, or the ones you managed to select though you wanted them to move and ended up doing a march of death through the enemy base? Yeah that painful.
They need to bring back the true desktop mode for "normal" users. I understand that a reg-hack will get rid of the back to tiles start menu but out of the box? The system doesn't seem to detect that you don't have a touch enabled system so would probably want a keyboard/mice centric way of interacting at startup,not after going through a painful cludge of "touch like" mouse movements.
