Windows Features Missing from Linux 1
Gosh, I don’t know how I live without these:
- That silly animation that runs while Windows is copying a file, together with its wild estimations of time to complete: 30 seconds remaining, 2 minutes, 9 minutes, 25 minutes, 37 minutes, 30 seconds.
- The registry
- Virus checking software
- The window that comes up when a program crashes and sends the crash dump to Redmond, to give them a much needed laugh. Linux programs instead lay a small binary turd file in situ. After a while you end up with quite a large collection of these, decorating your directories.
- Automatic updates fixing vulnerabilities in Outlook Express. Who uses Outlook Express these days? Why?
- Windows genuine disadvantage
- The Windows pause, by which I mean that increasingly prevalent nothing-happening-for-no-reason delay that intrudes between the user poking and the software flinching.
April 16, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I think I have all that stuff, tell karen I"m out dated!