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- Restarts are required when core OS components are being updated. Linux doesn't make you restart for things like this, but it is still insecure until the resta

- Restarts are required when core OS components are being updated. Linux doesn't make you restart for things like this, but it is still insecure until the restart has been accomplished. Microsoft just removed that option. I agree that they ought to sometimes be consolidated and should definitely be faster (although if it took an hour, maybe the computer is just slow), but it's a minor thing that happens once at system install time. - Most people seem to think ribbons are a pretty good idea. - Nobody except Linux users care about package managers. Mac OS X doesn't have one either. Anyway, I don't see what about your review is related to 1998.

SandB0x 16y ago
For package manager read "app store". People do care.
- jamesaguilar 16y ago
  That's a fair point. I think you are right and I am wrong.
endlessvoid94 16y ago
You're right, except the part about package managers. This is one of those things that Steve Jobs' quote about "People don't know what they want until you show it to them" applies. People will LOVE the app store on OS X. For all intents and purposes, the iTunes app store is already evidence of that. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be easier to use than whatever we have now. And what we have now isn't as usable as an app store (or "package manager").
ratsbane 16y ago
Package managers are great. You don't miss having one until you've used one enough to understand how helpful they are.
xilun0 16y ago
> Microsoft just removed that option. Microsoft never had that option, because their filesystem is constructed differently (they could have introduced a special case workaround though)
exDM69 16y ago
I find the lack of a decent package manager the biggest flaw in Windows. I get very irritated when my workflow is interrupted by an autoupdater from Adobe, InstallShield, Steam or whatever. I'd so much more prefer updating all my applications from a centralized service of some kind. A good package management system should also serve as a solid foundation for an App store. OSX will have an app store soon, I guess Windows must follow the example. The damn autoupdaters waste so much time and effort that it's embarassing. It hasn't been once or twice when I go in for a lecture and the professor opens his computer and then 200 people have to wait up to 20 minutes for his PowerPoint to install updates. What comes to Windows 7, it's the best Windows I've used so far but that isn't very much to say. I have never used Windows for any real work, once I tried for a week but then I had to get actual work done and switched to my favorite Linux distro.

SandB0x 16y ago

For package manager read "app store". People do care.

jamesaguilar 16y ago
That's a fair point. I think you are right and I am wrong.

endlessvoid94 16y ago

You're right, except the part about package managers. This is one of those things that Steve Jobs' quote about "People don't know what they want until you show it to them" applies. People will LOVE the app store on OS X. For all intents and purposes, the iTunes app store is already evidence of that. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be easier to use than whatever we have now. And what we have now isn't as usable as an app store (or "package manager").

ratsbane 16y ago

Package managers are great. You don't miss having one until you've used one enough to understand how helpful they are.

xilun0 16y ago

> Microsoft just removed that option. Microsoft never had that option, because their filesystem is constructed differently (they could have introduced a special case workaround though)

exDM69 16y ago

I find the lack of a decent package manager the biggest flaw in Windows. I get very irritated when my workflow is interrupted by an autoupdater from Adobe, InstallShield, Steam or whatever. I'd so much more prefer updating all my applications from a centralized service of some kind. A good package management system should also serve as a solid foundation for an App store. OSX will have an app store soon, I guess Windows must follow the example. The damn autoupdaters waste so much time and effort that it's embarassing. It hasn't been once or twice when I go in for a lecture and the professor opens his computer and then 200 people have to wait up to 20 minutes for his PowerPoint to install updates. What comes to Windows 7, it's the best Windows I've used so far but that isn't very much to say. I have never used Windows for any real work, once I tried for a week but then I had to get actual work done and switched to my favorite Linux distro.