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Vista is designed to annoy
13-04-2008 1:45 PM
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Quote In a Thursday presentation at RSA 2008 in San Francisco, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft who was part of the team that developed UAC, admitted that Microsoft's strategy with UAC was to irritate users and ISVs in order to get them to change their behavior.
"The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross.
Edit As I had to look it up - ISV Independent Software Vendors
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
13-04-2008 1:54 PM
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13-04-2008 1:57 PM
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i would much rather rely on Kaspersky Internet Security - currently running V8 beta and very happy
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
13-04-2008 2:05 PM
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13-04-2008 2:55 PM
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13-04-2008 3:13 PM
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It seems to have settled down finally so isn't so noticeable
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
13-04-2008 3:17 PM
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Re: Vista is designed to annoy
13-04-2008 9:02 PM
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Quote from: Santiago UAC annoyed me too, I formatted and put XP on instead
I formatted my Vista partition and then went back to Linux
Regards .....
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
13-04-2008 10:48 PM
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i now enjoy my computer instead of nannying it with all those anti-this, anti-that protections applications.
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13-04-2008 11:04 PM
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One PC is dual boot - but I've never found a reason to try Windows again.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
14-04-2008 8:20 AM
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I also have downloaded PClinuxOS and Linux Mint but am unsure really which to go with. I am just reading up up the whole Linux thing before taking the plunge but there are so many different points of view on this!
I want to run a dual boot initially while I familiarise myself with Linux, but would hope to run only Linux on this machine long term.
Any advice on what version to use and tips on dual booting from you Linux types would be much appreciated
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
14-04-2008 11:54 AM
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Some laptop hardware (especially wireless cards and sound) reacts differently to each distro and I would then install to the HD the one that ticks the most boxes so to speak.
PCLinuxOS - This seems to cover most requirements
Linux Mint - This is next in line, but I had trouble with sound that the PCLinuxOS worked OK with.
Simply Mepis - I use this on a desktop dual booting with win98. On laptop had trouble with Wireless.
Dreamlinux - If you want a Mac look-alike, but had trouble with wireless cards and WPA.
Latest Kubuntu/Ubuntu 8.04 releases cover more hardware than previous versions, but are only in testing, with a full release due soon - however, it doesn't hurt to download and burn one to CD.
One of the current Linux mags has a Linux Mint lite version on it, so you could get that and use it as a live CD.
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
14-04-2008 11:57 AM
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Quote from: artificer from quick and dirty os on up from ms-dos to vista the whole os has been designed to be annoying. i hated having to change from cp/m and am overjoyed that i found PCLinuxOS.
i now enjoy my computer instead of nannying it with all those anti-this, anti-that protections applications.
I couldn't have put it better myself
Regards .....
Re: Vista is designed to annoy
14-04-2008 12:08 PM
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Quote from: Santiago Any advice on what version to use and tips on dual booting from you Linux types would be much appreciated
There are so many excellent distros out there that it's very difficult to advise which one to go for. The ones to definitely have a look at would be:
- PCLinuxOS
- Mandriva
- Ubuntu
- Fedora
As someone else has already said, the best way to go about it would be to d/load the LiveCD iso's for each distro, burn them to a CD and then boot form the LiveCD(s). You will then be able to play about with each distro without fear of trashing your existing OS. Once you've decided which one to go for, it's a simple matter of clicking the "Install" icon on your LiveCD desktop to install the distro to your hard drive. The Linux boot-loader should see your existing OS and automatically add it to its boot menu or alternatively, you could install a boot manager such as BootItNG but that approach is not exactly straight forward. Best of luck
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Re: Vista is designed to annoy
14-04-2008 2:58 PM
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There must be something wrong with me.
I like Vista, I even prefer it to XP.
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