Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 21:32 UTC, submitted by Flatland_Spider
The Linux Foundation has posted the second half of its long and thorough interview with Linux founder Linus Torvalds, part of the Foundation's 'open voices' podcast. While the first part of the interview focused on the Linux development community, this time Torvalds sounds off on everything from patents and innovation to the future of Linux. According to Torvalds the reason Linux hasn't taken off is that most people are happy with the way things are. "If you act differently from Windows, even if you act in some ways better, it doesn't matter; better is worse if it's different." Torvalds also attributes much of the frustration with Windows Vista to this same idea. In other words, it's not that Vista is worse than XP, but it's different and that causes distress among users.
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Member since:2006-01-06
I have the same complaint: UAC. Man that is one annoying feature. Otherwise, I could get used to Vista..and I know UAC can be disabled, but I'd prefer it be refined.
I use this free program Tweak-UAC (http://www.tweak-uac.com/) to basically enable or disable UAC on-the-fly. Works GREAT. There are times when I'm working, and I don't want to be disturbed by UAC prompts, but it's nice to be able to turn UAC back on without having to reboot the system. Give it a try. I think you'll like it.
Member since:2005-07-06
Why in hell has this comment been modded down? It provides useful information for Vista users, and it can't be considered really off-topic since Linus mentioned explicitly Vista and different UIs in the interview.
Can we encourage people to be constructive, whatever their flaming past may be? Whatever helps people in a civil manner can't be bad, let's show civility in this forum.
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2006-01-31
I have the same complaint: UAC. Man that is one annoying feature. Otherwise, I could get used to Vista..and I know UAC can be disabled, but I'd prefer it be refined.