About Windows and administrator privileges: it wasn't even the user' fault! I tried to run Windows XP as an ordinary user and it was really annoying: things wou

About Windows and administrator privileges: it wasn't even the user' fault! I tried to run Windows XP as an ordinary user and it was really annoying: things would fail without error messages (let alone asking for admin privileges) all the time. Windows 7 is fine though: it feels like Ubuntu to me: I can run it as an ordinary user and it prompts for an admin password when necessary (and the occasions when it is needed make more sense: in the XP era I often wasn't convinced programs really needed the privileges they asked for).