Re: Do you consider windows systems in general to be good?
I just find the interface to be awful and the operating system unmaintainable. I also hate how it assumes it is more intelligent than the user. Even though I've told it that I don't want to automatically download and install updates, it still does so whenever I have the modem plugged in.
Yep, I don't like KDE's interface either as it too closely mirrors Windows'.
On Windows, when I want to digitise video, I have problems. If I want to capture to the hard disk, the disk's fragmentation causes the audio to go out of sync with the video. If I capture to an empty DVD-RAM, I don't get AV sync problems; but there's SOME process still active which tries to access the DVD-RAM, and sometimes ruins the capture.
I have to think that Windows is the most insecure operating system with the most security features. Microsoft's documentation proudly boasts all these very interesting introspective security monitors, but many things Windows does are completely insecure. I'll give you an example:
* Windows has an RPC daemon (Remote Procedure Calling). I don't know if it sends RPC requests or recieves them, but whatever it is, it's facing the Internet and for security reasons I don't want it open. So I go to the Task Manager and kill it. Windows then tells me that the RPC program has shut down unexpectedly, and that Windows itself will shut down in 1 minute.
What's to stop a virus from continually killing the RPC daemon on startup, causing the computer to shut down immediately? Maybe I should write this as a proof-of-concept so Microsoft will fix it?
I originally didn't intend to bash Microsoft or Windows, but it looks like I have. Even most of Microsoft's fans (except the ones who insist that IE has "superior security features") have grave doubts about Vista's real level of security. The parts of Windows' framework that cause users to run in an insecure manner are not parts that Microsoft has changed.
I try to treat the cause, not the symptom. I avoid the terminal in instructions, unless it's easier or necessary. My instructions will work within the Ubuntu system, instead of breaking or subverting it. Those are the three guarantees to the helpee.
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