On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > From: Adam Maas >> >> Vista, which is a significant upgrade over XP despite the popular >> opinion to the contrary. Note I'm counting from power-on to 'all >> background services started'. I can get a working UI much quicker than >> that (about 45 seconds) but my experience is that it's always best to >> wait until the background stuff has started. >> > > The only real complaint I have about Vista is they changed the appearance, > names and locations of stuff for no apparent reason. > > Makes it more difficult when I have to interact with the OS itself, because > I have to figure out what the new name is, where they've hidden it and have > a whole new learning curve for getting it to do what I want it to do. > > And that's one of the reasons I'm delaying moving to Windoze 7 ... I'm only > now just beginning to get used to where they've hidden the widgets I need to > twiddle occasionally, and don't want to deal with another new learning > curve. > > Plus, I've learned to allow Micro$oft's early adopters to deal with the > inevitable problems. > > When is Service Pack 1 for Windoze 7 due out? > > Once that's available bundled with the base OS I'll consider switching. >
Turn off Themes and Vista becomes a lot more like earlier versions UI-wise. Also use the Classic option for Control Panel. I found that most of the UI changes in Vista were for the better, especially with Explorer (finally a navigable address bar, like on GNOME or KDE). They did absolutely screw up some of the Control Panel stuff though, especially Networking-related stuff. Win7's changes are far more painful as MS decided to turn the Taskbar into a (better but still annoying) clone of one of OS X's biggest UI fails, the Dock. Ironically MS did a better job of it than Apple did, it's much easier to tell what docked apps are actually running on Win7 than on OS X (The Icon gets a transparent overlay rather than a wee little caret), but it still fails due to the poor assumption that your launcher and task switcher should be the same thing, a UI paradigm which sucked on NeXTStep and still sucks today. And it forces you to stack running windows, rather than having the option of having each individual window show up on the taskbar when you don't have a lot of them open (one of my favourite things about the Windows-style taskbar). The sad part is there's really only two parts of the OS X UI that I dislike. The Dock and Finder. MS cloned one, but thankfully not the other (Finder remains an absolute fucking disaster, and singularly the worst aspect of OS X by a large margin. It's still not anywhere near as good as OS9's Finder, let alone a modern File Browser like Explorer or Nautilus). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
