Annoyance will make Vista users to switch to Ubuntu.

[Lukas Sabota]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:54 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Chanchao">
> 
> >  * 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'..  :)
> 
> To be fair, it wasn't so much those things alone, it was the way this
> machinery is exposed to users. There's a very entertaining set of dialogues
> showing their 'secure desktop' functionality - something like seven prompts
> to delete a symlink on the desktop. :-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
> linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia           http://lca2007.linux.org.au/
>  
>        All this self-centred cock-handling is totally where it's at.
> 
Symlinks on NTFS?  You've gotta be kidding me ;-)

God bless,
Lukas