My Vsta through the Windows is just Terrible
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Originally Posted by
Andrew Pitonyak
Yeah, I feel your pain. A few years back I had to do something similar when a Vista machine refused to allow me (even as admin) to touch the files to move them in to a new machine.... so, I used a Linux boot disk; end of problem.
Andrew Pitonyak,
I suppose I've become one of the billions of people that question the primacy of Windows. I know quite a few PC enthusiasts that criticize Apple for not really allowing "getting under the hood" to repair it, but from another angle, Apple doesn't seem to need it, plus the interface and applications are infinitely more intuitive and elegant looking. I think of Windows use as continuously fixing the tools. The Sawmill Creek analog to Windows might be having a really ugly, heavy hammer that cost a fortune and the head fell off after every nail. All the actual improvements in Windows over the years have been ways in which it was made to resemble Apple OS and all the regressions have been to make it more like Windows. I saw a comment by Bill Gates to Steve Jobs that was a rare instance of someone being truthfully self-critical, "I envy your taste."
My HP m2496f and Dell Precision T5400 both arrived with Vista Business . MS has this odd way of assuming that change is always good and the bigger the pile of things that are always running the better. I converted both systems- at substantial cost- as XP Professional within two months. I still think of XP Pro as the best OS MS ever made (and Windows 95 the worst) as XP Pro was the magic moment of capability without bloat.
I've been tempted by Linux for years as it is dynamically improved and tailored to be lean and efficient and it's incidentally good-looking in a purposeful way. I like tools to appear as tools and not what I call "fuzzy bears", that are always predicting what I should be doing. I think of Linux as the operating system for adults, but I've put too much time and investment into the fuzzy bear world to make a change. I use some old-fashioned PCI sound cards and sound editing software that don't have drivers or run on Linux or I'd dive in and try it.
My technological motto : "Computers: Love them or hate them, you're going to hate them."
Alan Caro