That extra 512GB storage costs ~$30 or so but I doubt average consumer has any idea about that.
Also there's the thing that Windows alone requires like 100GB space...
Makes me wonder, how much of the hate on GNOME is because it reminds people about Win8.
I never used Win8 but used to administer some 2012 and 2012R2 servers. On the former the only issue caused by the start screen was the fact that there was no button to open it. This was very annoying when RDPing to the servers, but the issue wouldn't matter on desktop since you have super key for it.
Besides that, it was everything else in that OS that made me hate it
This sounds heretic as fuck so I'm gonna roll with it