Text 16278, 50 rader
Skriven 2006-03-11 09:03:16 av Jeff Guerdat (1:229/2000)
  Kommentar till text 16255 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: OS wars
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Dan Ceppa -> Jeff Guerdat wrote:
 DC> On 09 Mar 06  12:00:16, Jeff Guerdat got back to Dan Ceppa
 ->> Re: OS wars

 DC>> The extras are nice, but they should be On-Demand, rather than
 DC>> being presented as a whole with the earlier options.

 JG>> I spend the time up front to turn off the features I don't use.  Some
 JG>> of them are uninstalls of software (OE, f'rinstance) while others are
 JG>> just setings to the interface.  I doubt I would have much problem
 JG>> going back to a W9x box since I either remember how they were or have
 JG>> the system set up to be similar...

 DC> The real problem is that too many files are so intrically
 DC> entiwined together.  In DOS, if you wanted to get rid of a
 DC> program you just deleted the directory it was in.

Ah, the never-ending battle of man and machine...   ;)

Actually, I suspect that many applications could be deleted  without harming
the system.  The registry would be  more littered than after a  proper
uninstall and system files would remain but I doubt the system would rely on
the application directory  itself.   Sure, it could go either way, depending 
on how it's coded but it's potentially  doable.

Two  things, however:

1)  In much  of this debate  is whether services should be "forced"  on any
particular user.    This debate is actually what  a  few  want vs. many.  If
it's deemed  a  desirable  service by  most,  you may  well not  get the
choice.   If  that's not acceptable to  you, use something else.

2) Yer preaching to the choir as to whether an application should do things  to
the OS.  I prefer the Unix way of  doing things, which  is like your DOS
observation.  Obviously, there are system features that you may never take
advantage of but, like in Windows, you can ignore them.  Since much  of this
debate has to do with security and "why should I have IE installed if I don't
use it and it causes all sorts of problems", yes, the more entwined in the OS
the harder it is to get rid  of it, if that's even  possible.  Do remember that
you can get  better performance by entwining than as a standalone.  Either way,
I still prefer Unix.

So, you  pays  your  money and  you takes your choice...
-- 
Jeff Guerdat

I'd rather have a brother who retired from Kodak AND a sister who's a hooker.

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