Annoyance will make Vista users to switch to Ubuntu.

[Chanchao]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:42 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> >> We just tried the latest Vista beta, and what I can say is, it's annoying
> >> as 

Ok, sorry to continue this but I promise to raise the level of
conversation and bring it to almost within the rules. :)  

Because yesterday I read a long review of a Windows Vista Beta, it was
called "20 things you won't like about Vista', here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000829

It's a strange article.. I liked that it was very extensive, and gave a
good overview of new features in Vista.  However I completely disagreed
with most of the things the author labelled 'don't like'.. Most of those
actually make good sense, and a lot of the remaining ones was whinging
about bugs & performance and placement/scattering of certain control
panels which I think is silly when reviewing what is after all BETA
software. 

>From the article it seems that Vista is addressing the main security
issues that were always blatantly obvious to anyone in the Unix/Linux
world, and blatantly obvious as to how these should be fixed.  It now
turns out that MS is solving this indeed by closely following the
Unix/Linux way.  

In short:

 * Users CANT run as Administrator anymore, there isn't even an
Administrator account. (Sounds familiar?)

 * When doing administrative stuff, users will be prompted for approval,
optionally with their own password. (Sounds familiar?)

 * Applications aren't allowed to write (user) settings in the Program
Files folders anymore, or in the registry, it will have to go into user
space. (Sounds familiar?)

Now, the author thought these things were an 'annoyance'..  :)

Then the remaining gripes that weren't about bugs or performance were
about useless eyecandy, and doing away with the traditional File - Edit
- View menu structure in favor of icons that adjust to what the user is
doing and would want to be doing next.  That's a matter of taste I
suppose, and in any case all of that can be turned off if you don't like
it. Heck I still have ALL of the visual extras that XP offers over
Win2000 turned off.. 

Just about the only thing I agreed with was the blatant and mindless
copy of a bunch of shiny but ultimately brain-dead desktop widgets.
They look embarrassing. "Hey look, there's an analog railway station
clock." yawn.. 

So in short I think Windows is catching up to Ubuntu in the security and
'common sense' departments, whereas at the same time Ubuntu is catching
up to Windows in the eyecandy department...  (Edgy)  

They did however find time for ONE innovative test-balloon which is
getting rid of fixed File-Edit-View menus..  A loin-cloth for the Naked
Emperor...? 

Cheers,
Chanchao