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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
For years now OS have been taking away choices from the user, and have taken over decisions which the user should be making, such as the fact that since Windows XP the OS decides when to download updates, when that should ALWAYS be a decision of the user.
Originally posted by porschedrifter
Meh... linux is not all that when you want to play games and edit video....
When you look at the software/hardware support of windows vs linux, linux just doesnt compare...
i'm on OS2008 right now which is a varient of linux
Yup I read it, UAC so what.... I had it completely disabled on Vista *gasp!*
W7 you don't have to disable it, it's not as anoying.
I'm not worried about the UAC issue, M$ will patch it any minute. And if you have other security software like peerguardian, hardware firewall on my router and another software firewall, then you are ok....
[edit on 26-10-2009 by porschedrifter]
First, desktop Windows stands firmly on a foundation as a stand-alone PC operating system. It was never, ever meant to work in a networked world. So, security holes that existed back in the day of Windows for Workgroups, 1991, are still with us today in 2009 and Windows 7.
Most of these problems come down to Windows has IPCs (interprocess communications), procedures that move information from one program to another, that were never designed with security in mind. Windows and Windows applications rely on these procedures to get work done. Over the years they've included DLLs (dynamic link libraries), OCXs (Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Control Extension), and ActiveX. No matter what they're called, they do the same kind of work and they do it without any regard to security.
Here's some insight into why Windows has problems:
For you, as a user, running Windows means that your PC will be attacked on an almost daily basis. Hacked Web sites, spam carrying malware, it's almost all meant for little old you and your Windows PC. Even with constant patching and added security programs, you're always going to be in danger of having your PC hijacked.
When you don't know how to use it it doesn't. I run all that stuff and more. all of my hardware works, and I would have trouble finding some that didn't. I'm running slackware and its much more compatible than Vista, faster than Windows, and more stable.
Originally posted by porschedrifter
are you sure you mean user friendly and not user familiar?
Windows 7 is extremely user friendly.
If you look at the benchmarks you can see xp is slower than vista and w7 is slowly faster than Vista....
I dont work for M$ i'm just proud that they are finally back on track with operating systems.
I'd rather have W7 manage my quad core, 8gb of ram and DX10 for my gtx 275 than XP, its just better technology.
[edit on 26-10-2009 by porschedrifter]
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
reply to post by porschedrifter
You love W7? Did you not read the article I excerpted and posted here?
That thing is a timebomb, and hacker heaven as soon as they find out how to use that vulnerability, if they haven't already found it.
But it's new, and it's Microsoft, so bash away.
Originally posted by wylekat
(I cant figure out the DVD player in Xubuntu to save my life).
Originally posted by C0bzz
Originally posted by ahnggk
I have very similar specs to you, but still using XP! XP can manage all that except RAM which in my case, limits RAM usage to 3.5GB, no more!
I'm familiar with Vista tweaks which works for general tasks but I also heard, they didn't improve much on gaming performance so I decided to stick with XP.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
For years now OS have been taking away choices from the user, and have taken over decisions which the user should be making, such as the fact that since Windows XP the OS decides when to download updates, when that should ALWAYS be a decision of the user.
I hate it when I am doing something, such as watching a movie and then I keep getting a message that "windows must restart for the updates it downloaded by itself to take effect"....
Doesn't anyone else find that annoying as hell?
4th As a consumer I'm ALWAYS RIGHT! Or NO $$$"s for YOU!
Originally posted by C0bzz
Here's some insight into why Windows has problems:
That article was all nice until it reached...:
For you, as a user, running Windows means that your PC will be attacked on an almost daily basis. Hacked Web sites, spam carrying malware, it's almost all meant for little old you and your Windows PC. Even with constant patching and added security programs, you're always going to be in danger of having your PC hijacked.
Well then why do I never have these problems? Never been attacked in my entire history of using Windows (>5 years).
Malware? You mean the malware idiots install then blame on Windows?
As far as Linux being more stable - why have I never had a BSOD in over 5 years with Windows?
As far as being faster, baloney. I experienced the exact opposite.
When you don't know how to use it it doesn't. I run all that stuff and more. all of my hardware works, and I would have trouble finding some that didn't. I'm running slackware and its much more compatible than Vista, faster than Windows, and more stable.
May I ask how? Could never get my printer to work, took a while to figure out how to install drivers, took ages to get the network running, sound in flash didn't work, sound would constantly cut out and cracle, it took longer to boot than Windows XP, when running burn in tests it would run slow, pretty much none of my applications ran properly even after hours of toying, and none of my system tools have any possibility of running. Since I do not get hacked in the first place the better security was non-existant as I was having no issues with it (or stability) in the first place.
It's good that at least some people can get it running. More power to you if you can get a free OS that is better than anything else for your needs.
[edit on 27/10/2009 by C0bzz]