Windows 8 on X60/61 tablet

I know this is old technology, but I've now been using Win 8 on this pen-only X60T for a few weeks and have most things working well, but would like to find other users to discuss how the combination works.
My main interest is pro audio, and the operation of audio mixing and editing software. The interest in a tablet is for use with programs that have a multiplicity of virtual faders and control knobs. The single touch pen matches the mainly single touch graphics better than the multi-touch fat finger vagueness of the more modern machine that I tried briefly.
The Windows 8 problems here revolve around the pen control of the pulling in of menus from the screen corners and sides. In either screen, pulling in the RH panel is very hit and miss. A flick in the corner usually brings in a "see-through" version of the panel, which often disappears before changing to the full panel. I have tried all sort of flicks and other gestures, but still haven't found the knack of this. Is there any way of making this reliable or adding a screen icon to bring up these controls?
A similar situation exists with pulling down from the top LH corner to close programs that are no longer needed and the bottom LH corner to go to the metro screen.
I've been playing with a program called Harrison Mixbus which, to keep the screens reaonably sensible without duplicate icons, requires several switches between metro and the proper screen on startup. This becomes an enormous chore unless I turn the tablet back into a laptop.
I have tried a couple of  "bring the start button back" programs, but both of these had side-effects that I didn't like. 
I am still researching getting rid of the screen/bezel gap that catches the pen at the screen side or corner. I am very surprised by the previous answer here saying the problem didn't exist on their X60. I have bought a job lot of bezels and all 3 of the ones that have the screen included have a similar gap. Some are a little smaller, though.

I've tried Win 8 on my X41T and Fujitsu ST6012, all pen only tablets.
My conclusion is that Windows 8, despite being a great OS for a touch-based tablet PC, isn't really engineered to work with pen tablets.(Especially, thinking how many older TPCs have extruded LCD Bezels, the charm bar is really difficult to use with these devices)
It's mainly because how MS has decided to treat finger and pen differently-while touch is used for gestures and scrolls(which Windows 8 is all about), pen input is focused specifically for precision pointing and inking. This differential makes a tremendous synergy when using a device with at least a limited and primal touch support(like ThinkPad X201T)-you can touch and write in a very natural manner which you won't be able to get if they acted otherwise. However, since pen is pretty much no more than a supporting method in this configuration, using Windows 8 on pen only device is, to be frank, not much better, if not worse, than using it on Windows 7, except for some improvement in performance side.
As such, my personal preferred OS for pen only devices is Windows 7. UIs are touch friendly just enough for tablet PCs, and has other great usability improvements over Windows XP TPC edition. And start button is so much helpful when using pen as the main pointing device.
Kim
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