I'm having a much better experience with Visual Studio 2012 than I did with 2010. I'm using it for ASP.Net, WinForms and Windows 8 development. I actually even like the UI with two exceptions. First, it should have not used UPPER CASE FOR THE MENUS. Thankfully, there was an add-on to fix that (or a registry tweak if you went that route). Second, the icons need color. I've been using VS2012 for a while now and I'm still having trouble distinguishing between commonly used icons that I didn't used to have an issue with. I find that frustrating. Performance wise though for the most part my VS2012 runs a lot faster than 2012 which was slow on every installation I ever had it on.
The one thing I will complain about though is that the XAML designer still, well, it sucks. That's not 2012 specific though. It's *always* loading no matter how fast the machine I'm running. My other problem with the XAML editor is frequently has exceptions that give no detail that lock it up, I have to close out of it and re-open it working again.
I just thank the heavens that we still have menus in VS2012 and not the Ribbon.
