UAC is a nice feature if you don't run as an administrator. It was a pain in the ass to manually escalate permissions to install shit in XP, or to have to log in as Administrator. If an app is fairly recent, it just asks for your password and away you go.
In fact you can do this. You can create accounts and give them finer grained permissions than the standard Unix model allows for. Just because you personally don't know how do that doesn't mean it isn't doable.
This happens if an application oh-so-friendlily adds an icon to the All Users desktop, which a normal user account does not have permission to delete from. Add your user account to the ACL until installers stop doing this.
I'd agree with this. The ability to start a session fully elevated would be nice. I know when I am setting up a Linux box, its handy to just su - and do multiple tasks without dicking around.
I use Vista every day, and run into UAC whenever I am doing something that requires administrative privileges, which is not terribly regularly. How is it badly implemented?
UAC is amazingly useful if you run as a non-privileged user. Having an application ask to be elevated rather than requiring you to explicitly run it as a privileged user is pretty handy. I don't understand the hatred of UAC on a site that is teeming with UNIX users that routinely use su or sudo.
You just described my last job to a tee. All my friends give me grief because I complain about sitting home alone, browsing the web all day. It got old after the first year, and was destroying anything resembling a work ethic I once had.
That beta web browser is the most stable part of Ubuntu 8.04. I think Ubuntu made a bad decision by releasing that steaming hunk of shit. But hey, it was on time, right?
What benefit is Windows? It uses more resources, it is slower and it costs money to put on the OLPC. Why would Microsoft do that? They have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits for their shareholders.
The only purpose is to reap money from them later. Linux is a truly altruistic gift that will empower the children with freedom and will not demand anything from them down the road. Ahh, yes, the 3 talking points that have been key to any WHY LINUX ROOLS YOU discussion since the mid 90s. Perhaps you didn't read the part where I said 'give away' as in 'without cost.' Companies make charitable donations all the time. Positive publicity. In any case, my troll radar has been going off for some time now, and its time for me to go find lunch and be productive. If you aren't a troll, maybe you should find something else mundane to politicize, I hear there are lots of cool stickers you can get for your truck.
If it seems like pure overhead to someone, they shouldn't be doing that work because its going to suck. If a distribution is positioning an application as the default way to do something, they need to stop depending on the application maintainer and start maintaining their own fork to guarantee a consistent user experience.
Stability - 8.04 managed to hang my system hard, no cursor, no keyboard, hell, the numlock light didn't even respond. Its been a long time since Windows has done that to me. I would have gotten over it, but this was during resizing my primary NTFS partition... luckily during the fsck, but still not a good sign. I had just decided to actually install the thing instead of stopping after a glaring failure in the LiveCD like happened the last two releases I tried. I also liked how the package manager in Kubuntu locked my repos then crashed. Very user friendly. It continues to crash when I tell it to break the locks. Guess I need to reboot? Security - This is the same system everyone hates Windows Vista for shipping with. OMG, my password again!??!? Yeah, your password again, you are installing a driver. But its great when Linux does it. I personally don't like the sudo for everything approach. To me, its the same as doing everything as root. Speed - Meh, I haven't thought about this in years. I run a relatively modern PC. My Celery 1200 is a little creaky running XP, but it does the job. All those same free apps are available on Windows, btw. If you don't know why you should switch, why bother?
I've tried pretty hard to bluescreen my own box, all I ever get out of it is a little text bubble by the clock telling me my video driver crashed and reloaded. My own experience indicates that Vista works at least as well as XP in this regard.
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UAC is a nice feature if you don't run as an administrator. It was a pain in the ass to manually escalate permissions to install shit in XP, or to have to log in as Administrator. If an app is fairly recent, it just asks for your password and away you go.
You haven't actually used Windows since around 2000, have you?
Can I buy some pot from you?
In fact you can do this. You can create accounts and give them finer grained permissions than the standard Unix model allows for. Just because you personally don't know how do that doesn't mean it isn't doable.
This happens if an application oh-so-friendlily adds an icon to the All Users desktop, which a normal user account does not have permission to delete from. Add your user account to the ACL until installers stop doing this.
I'd agree with this. The ability to start a session fully elevated would be nice. I know when I am setting up a Linux box, its handy to just su - and do multiple tasks without dicking around.
I'd suggest you contact the authors of these programs and ask them why they require administrative privileges. UAC doesn't pop up for no reason.
I use Vista every day, and run into UAC whenever I am doing something that requires administrative privileges, which is not terribly regularly. How is it badly implemented?
UAC is amazingly useful if you run as a non-privileged user. Having an application ask to be elevated rather than requiring you to explicitly run it as a privileged user is pretty handy. I don't understand the hatred of UAC on a site that is teeming with UNIX users that routinely use su or sudo.
You just described my last job to a tee. All my friends give me grief because I complain about sitting home alone, browsing the web all day. It got old after the first year, and was destroying anything resembling a work ethic I once had.
That beta web browser is the most stable part of Ubuntu 8.04. I think Ubuntu made a bad decision by releasing that steaming hunk of shit. But hey, it was on time, right?
Hey dumbfuck, did you notice that you are in the gaming section?
Good for you, I'd offer you a cookie, but you apparently have no facility to eliminate waste from your body.
A few STB's may be running Linux, but a good chunk of them are running SARA or Passport.
The only purpose is to reap money from them later. Linux is a truly altruistic gift that will empower the children with freedom and will not demand anything from them down the road. Ahh, yes, the 3 talking points that have been key to any WHY LINUX ROOLS YOU discussion since the mid 90s. Perhaps you didn't read the part where I said 'give away' as in 'without cost.' Companies make charitable donations all the time. Positive publicity. In any case, my troll radar has been going off for some time now, and its time for me to go find lunch and be productive. If you aren't a troll, maybe you should find something else mundane to politicize, I hear there are lots of cool stickers you can get for your truck.
And if Microsoft was to outright give away licenses to an OLPC build of Windows, running Sugar? This is still a bad thing, correct?
So it really is about pushing an agenda, not helping children. Got it.
If it seems like pure overhead to someone, they shouldn't be doing that work because its going to suck. If a distribution is positioning an application as the default way to do something, they need to stop depending on the application maintainer and start maintaining their own fork to guarantee a consistent user experience.
Stability - 8.04 managed to hang my system hard, no cursor, no keyboard, hell, the numlock light didn't even respond. Its been a long time since Windows has done that to me. I would have gotten over it, but this was during resizing my primary NTFS partition... luckily during the fsck, but still not a good sign. I had just decided to actually install the thing instead of stopping after a glaring failure in the LiveCD like happened the last two releases I tried. I also liked how the package manager in Kubuntu locked my repos then crashed. Very user friendly. It continues to crash when I tell it to break the locks. Guess I need to reboot?
Security - This is the same system everyone hates Windows Vista for shipping with. OMG, my password again!??!? Yeah, your password again, you are installing a driver. But its great when Linux does it. I personally don't like the sudo for everything approach. To me, its the same as doing everything as root.
Speed - Meh, I haven't thought about this in years. I run a relatively modern PC. My Celery 1200 is a little creaky running XP, but it does the job.
All those same free apps are available on Windows, btw. If you don't know why you should switch, why bother?
No, I think he just doesn't want to see your animu porno. I know I don't.
Yes. Its just Flash.
T-Mobile's firmware on Nokia S40 phones, at least, disables internet access for 3rd party apps.
I've tried pretty hard to bluescreen my own box, all I ever get out of it is a little text bubble by the clock telling me my video driver crashed and reloaded. My own experience indicates that Vista works at least as well as XP in this regard.