It’s my damned computer and I refuse to have it decide for me what I will and won’t see, nor do I put up with an OS trying to second guess me at every turn. I’ve specified where files go when I download, there are no hidden folders anywhere and I reserve the right to modify any and everything I wish to. I use a very old school, DOS style folder structure of my own design and refuse to use the MS “My Whateverthefuck” folders. Screw those, they’re not where they ought to be and I sure wish I could get rid of them completely… I expect that I’ll transition to Linux eventually but I do have to say that as long as you have enough RAM 64 bit Vista Ultimate is a tremendously stable OS. Once you strip it down to a performance version it’s damned zippy, too. Having six different places where application data COULD be on a single profile laptop is a bit of weird overkill but you get used to that–it’s not like you have to go find it all that often. I’ve noticed that WinBloze benefits from quite a bit of slapping around, the more you call it a dirty whore and treat it like a slut the better it behaves for you… 
Seriously. I wonder if the OP will come back to the thread to sheepishly admit fault, but I’d say chances are low. The main thrust of the pitting is because of IE, not Windows, and then the OP is apparently illiterate as the Search feature should not be difficult to find. Amazing…
OS X’s hidden folders aren’t hidden if you use the Terminal, (which isn’t third party). If you don’t know what the Terminal is, you have no business in there. If you like playing in UNIX land, then have fun, it’s all there.
That confirms my own hunch that by now most changes can only be “cosmetic”, since they’ve likely worked out all of the actual system bugs by now. (I know, we’re talkin’ MS here, but even the tortise eventually will cross the finish line if it is persistant.) Rather like the auto industry in the 50s and 60s: lots of stylistic changes, few actual improvements.
Web-based apps? Lawd. I can think only of the poor folks using dial-up to access the Internet (as we did 'til a few weeks back). Guess it’s their response to the bootlegging problem. Let 'em. I find that WordPerfect 5.1 still does everything I need a word processor to do.
(Truth is, I kinda miss the DOS days when my computer did exactly what I told it to do and nothing more. Nowadays, at least once a week I yell, “Get off of my computer, Bill!” when some unknown program starts getting in my way.)
This is like blaming the car manufacturer for you not putting the oil plug back in after changing your oil.
Yea terminal is okay. Thank goodness for it too. I couldn’t find any way to diagnosis issues with the driver install without it.
The Posix tool of dmesg was vary useful, but not as useful or intuitive to use as Window’s Device Manager. Which not only gives you hard ware trouble data but lets manage the drivers without digging through bloody keys folders.
OSX totally fails at that.
Why should I need a bloody terminal to see hidden folders though? It’s just stupid.
Besides you ever try moving around files in a hidden folder on OSX? How about editing them? If you’re not familiar with bash commands it’s really arcane. Especially if you don’t know the executable names of OSX file handling tools. Moving them isn’t quiet as arcane if you’re used to the Linux terminal but still not intuitive for most people.
How many windows users ever have to deal with a fucking terminal just access parts of the file system? Sudo su? Screw you.*
In short the only things that give OSX any redemption are things it got from switching to a Unix core. Because the apple parts of OSX are utter garbage. Why not just use Linux with KDE or Gnome?
*inb4 security rant. Windows can block off folders from access for security reasons but if you have admin powers you can still access them fairly easily through the GUI if you need to. The point being you retain control of your computer. Not some control freak programmer at Apple.
If indexing is turned off (which it should be if you want anything to not take fourteen years to actually happen) then searching for files doesn’t find anything…
… you have to specify ‘search non-indexed files’
Fucking stupid.
There’s a lot of time wasted on Vista doing the following - file->open, resize so you can actually see more than half a filename of one file, browse away from '(your name)\my documents, browse to the actual folder you’ve chosen for storing your stuff, view by details, go in and add the ‘date modified’ colum, sort by date modified, double click the file you’re looking for.
every single time.
It should be like this - file->open, double click the file you’re looking for (because the dialog has remembered all that shit you had to do the first time)
Argh! I Like Vista but these things start to get on my tits.
How can you like something that sits on your tits?
If it’s a cat, or a woman.
YES! finally some vista rage. I utterly despise the search system in Vista. It’s horrid, an abomination. It’s how I know there isn’t a just God. A just God would have foreseen such vileness dedicated an entire extra Bible to making sure it never happens.
It’s so bad it’s almost like Apple programmed it.
You haven’t noticed that Macs have been shipping with the Mighty Mouse for years now? They’ve also supported multi-button mice since at least the early 90s.
While I’m at it. That Evil God also seems to be responsible for MS Office 2007.
If you fairly know your way around something such as excel, you will find yourself staring blankly at excel 2007.
WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYTHING I NEED!
Is that the fucking secret?
I generally like MS products. I even like IE. (firefox and I do not get along at all). But Vista is changing all that. And Vista search sucks ass. It has never once found a file. Ever. With XP, I could search for the a word in the filename or text inside the file or something. Vista - I can type the exact file name including the extension, and the damn thing won’t find it. It will find webpages on the internet that are sort of like that name - but my file? Hah.
Help menu? Haha. JK
I see what you’re saying here. Why the hell do these companies update their software but remove old features or change them around. If I was learning a language and suddenly whenever X amount of time hit I was unable to use certain words and had to learn more, or just deal, that would suck.
Shit, I’m still using Photoshop 7… I tried upgrading but damn, too many little things are different. Not sure I’m ready for it just yet. I know a new version of PS will jump out just as I finish learning the new one or there will be a replacement program which is better and I’d have to relearn an entire program then. I’m content with this. Less headaches.
As for not liking Windows… maybe if you were using Windows from the start it’d be easier to understand? It’s not THAT bad… Well, Vista is. Too many changes…
Normally I can cope with software changing a bit, but Office 2007 has totally and utterly dumped the old UI and changed everything Yesterday I used excel for something I commonly use excel for - bullying data from a text document into tabular form, in old excel it’s quite easy using find and replace, and text to columns, and sort, and filter, and fit to column width but none of those things are in their normal place or at all easy to find A job which would normally take a minute took about ten from time spent trying to find the damn tools.
Then why don’t they ship with one? Lord knows for as much as they over charge for macs another button shouldn’t bankrupt em.
Rorp?!
I just said they have. For over 3 years.
And the lappys have gestures built into their trackpads now, making buttons seem — kinda silly.
You’d think buying a PC with a soundcard wouldn’t bankrupt them, either…
nm
'Cuz someone hasn’t learned their rig. Honestly, I don’t know why people complain about this stuff.
To the world:
Learn your fucking rig.
Yeah, learn how to use overcomplicated software you tossers, leave poor Microsoft alone and let them off for making their shit difficult to use.