@S Brideau
I know, the hate flow. I am not using Windows for years already excluding the times when my friends want me to help them. But i never dig too much as i am not interested though even for a little time some things are annoying!
- Round corners look more pleasant - less disturbing, that why it was good decission for previous MS OS but now they throw it away and you notice this crap. Airo changed and doesn't have nice effect anymore. I'll ask if its easily changable but for now it means that default looks ugly.
- No its not, tabs in file browser can only mean one thing - tabs. Its really annoying that explorer doesn't have such feature in 2013. All good filebrowsers have those for years already.
- Why would MS do it in the first place? Companies tend to do it for preinstall OS and this is default feature MS pushes to you. Most of my friends are in 3D stuff and when Windows gladly installed drivers for videocard they get happy but when they opened their programs they became sad. It was 7 but i am sure 8 is no better in this department.
- Uh, no. Why do some OSes already have drivers for huge spectre of hardware parts and peripherals? They already have those drivers. I can understand closed source but almost all drivers excluding videocards and some wifi chips have them opened. Windows weights so much yet propose so little.
- No, if user is under admin and have antivirus and firewall enabled he can still install bad software and help some botnet doing things. I was solving such issues, they do exist because user knows that there're some programs(or some parts of them) that will interfere with defence program but are needed. So if Windows asks for permission and defence program(no matter how good) asks what do with it they say "pass it, i need this program". Noone is crippling your files, those days are gone, right now your pc is either helping so crack some passwords, used for DDoS attack or bitcoin mining.
"When using those 'regular' accounts instead of admin accounts, M$ allows you to enter the admin password with the UAC when the admin permission is needed for a program or something." Including installing programs?
Yes, people should use user account for doing things and not install some crap. And i believed some long time ago that all humans are smart PC users, they're not, even in 2013 they do those stupid mistakes.
- Opensource is majority, and almost all small but useful programs are both opened and free. The letter doesn't matter for the market but the first one should be enough to include it. Not much is included though. They try babysteps in repository direction in 2013 *facepalm*
- It means only set count of users can simultaniously connect to your pc. They also have different numbers for printers and everything else. Thats how they sell their Server editions to people who is not using Windows infrastracture and need it just for a few Windows-only programs on virtual machine. If you 'hack' Windows you can surely have those features but it is as illegal as pirating, there is no difference by the law.
- Console. thats why i said that most of those features can be installed later but such thing is too useful not include it, even though it can't hold a candle to simplicity of other OSes applied to it it should be there by default because otherwise it tends to complicate some things.
- No other FS aside from FAT and NTFS is supported. You can use ext3 through very crap means to the point its unusable and thats all i can remember.
@Rhinofart
I am not talking about RAMDrive, those things were always expensive. I am talking about using your RAM as a drive, its useful on many occasions including usage with SSD.
There is no frustration, this feature is natural. Just because Microsoft taught that its not doesn't mean they stand true.
I am not sure what software are you talking about but *nix systems have alot of only *nix software, obviously finding the same one for Windows would be nigh to impossible. But some simple software that was tested by enterprise companies is in *nix and free while Windows have "who knows?" who wrote the software, made it closed source(possible trojan?) and charged some money even though it has alot of bugs that *nix conterpart doesn't have. Using RAM as file system is a good example.