What I disliked about XP was its friendly insistence that it should know better how to configure and manage things than I would, and its equally friendly refusal to allow manual changes after it had configured something incorrectly. I appreciate that a program wants to make things easy, but in that, you should also get an easy in-door to fix things when the make-your-life-easy subroutine fails miserably. We went to Win2k after XP's friendly networking utility failed to allow us to actually network, and also prevented us from fixing the problem. There had been other things of that nature previously, but that was several years ago, and I can't remember them all.
Re: Vista, I don't have it, I haven't used it, so I have no personal issues with it, I merely have come to understand that it is even more Friendly and Insistent than XP, harder to tinker with if it needs tinkering with, uses up an insane amount of memory to idle at desktop, and is involved enough with rights management that it won't play some media and won't install some programs that are older than its base level of content protection. Also, I hear that it's unpleasant to re-install and that it doesn't care to let you re-install other programs within it. All of which makes me think, hrm, no thanks. Of course, as I say, I haven't actually used it, so all of my objections are other people's objections.
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Re: Oh noes, not upgrading!
Date: 2007-06-05 04:21 pm (UTC)Re: Vista, I don't have it, I haven't used it, so I have no personal issues with it, I merely have come to understand that it is even more Friendly and Insistent than XP, harder to tinker with if it needs tinkering with, uses up an insane amount of memory to idle at desktop, and is involved enough with rights management that it won't play some media and won't install some programs that are older than its base level of content protection. Also, I hear that it's unpleasant to re-install and that it doesn't care to let you re-install other programs within it. All of which makes me think, hrm, no thanks. Of course, as I say, I haven't actually used it, so all of my objections are other people's objections.