Since I get a free copy of Windows Vista Business thanks to MSDNAA, I decided to install it on a partition this morning. I definitely think its an improvement over XP. The Aero interface looks awesome, and a lot of the features available in XP have been tweaked and improved. My only real complaint about it is the User Account Control, which displays an annoying dialog message requesting security permission way too often. I will continue to use Ubuntu as my main desktop environment, but may occasionally boot to Vista if I need to use software which doesn't run on Linux.
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Okay, this has been a curious point for me for quite some time. In Linux we have a system that is similar to UAP. It is called sudo. If sudo isn't set up, you have to go all the way, and switch users entirely, using su. To install/uninstall any program, or change any system file, you have to type in your password (unless you have entered it within the past minute or two). I hear many people complaining about UAP and how annoying it is, but Linux has what I imagine to be the exact same thing, and it doesn't annoy me at all.
So how bad is it? You use Ubuntu and haven't complained about sudo or gksudo. Why is UAP worse? Does it really ask that more often? Does it ask for tasks that it shouldn't need to ask for? Is it just because you're installing dozens of programs to get your system set up, and next week you won't have to type it in as often?
Next point: In your first screenshot, what is the "application" at the back of your stack? It looks like your desktop is one of the things that got 3D-ified and put into your application list. Bug?
"So how bad is it? You use Ubuntu and haven't complained about sudo or gksudo. Why is UAP worse?" Maybe its just the fact that I am comparing Vista to the way that I use XP. Its true that UAP probably does improve security, but it also decreases user efficiency. When I had administrator privileges in XP I liked the fact that I could perform a task without being asked a second time if I *really* wanted to perform that task.
"Does it really ask that more often? Does it ask for tasks that it shouldn't need to ask for?" Yes, yes it does. I have a feeling this is because many [older] Windows programs are built with the assumption that they have administrator privileges (causing UAP to activate more often than is really necessary).
"It looks like your desktop is one of the things that got 3D-ified and put into your application list. Bug?" Its not a bug - its a feature! I think its actually pretty useful. When you select the desktop "application" it minimizes all other windows and shows the desktop. The same behavior also occurs when using Alt-Tab.
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