Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Aug 2009 09:21 UTC
Last week we talked about what Linux (well, okay, X) could learn from Windows Vista and Windows 7, focusing on the graphics stack. A short article over at TechWorld lists seven things Windows 7 should learn from the Linux world. Some of them are spot-on, a few are nonsensical, and of course, and I'm sure you have a few to add too.
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2006-01-10
Using \, the common escape character, is clumsy and annoying. Sort of like the \r\n line separator.
You can tell a diehard windows user by the fact that none of this offends their sensibilities, and they probably don't mind space and unicode characters in file names either.
I agree wholeheartedly! For the love of god, get rid of the damned C:\ crap and use mount points! Partitions should be invisible to the user, once the system is set up.
For everything from programming to trying to find a file through the command prompt, Drive lettering is a pain. Much simpler to use /media/disk or /media/disk-1 Or even more specific, /media/Windows /media/Stuff etc. That's what I have setup under Linux, and guess what? It actually keeps that info if you name the hard drive, so Ubuntu always mounts it under /media/Stuff when you install! what a novel idea!
Seriously, even typing the \ instead of / is more annoying. Especially on those older keyboards when it is next to the backspace key!
Anyhow, enough of my angry ranting, it's just that / is standard among ALL operating systems except for Dos and Windows. Hell, I think even CP/M which DOS ripped off doesn't even use a / or \ Just 'cd a:' as it shows here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M