# My first thoughts on Windows Vista

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 10, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-thoughts-on-windows-vista/360176 "2006-06-10T06:43:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-thoughts-on-windows-vista/360176/41 "2006-06-14T14:19:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Sage Rat]  
Well, really if you try running a \*nix machine as a personal computer and aren’t running as root, every three seconds you have to su/sudo to get your new system setup. People are just used to that paradigm on that platform.

Haven’t seen Vista of course, so maybe it really is impressively worse.

_just runs as root_  
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But on linux when you switch to root to do a task, it will let you finish the task without bothering you again. Vista,. not so much.

I forget what I was doing but Vista bugged me three times just making a basic setting change.

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