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@beerinbelgium:

What's your opinion on Vala for desktop software on Linux?

Python? Ruby?

wastingtimewithforums said:

ScottWelker said:

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Ubuntu security is not much better. From a strict security standpoint, the highest UAC setting (Vista style) is more "solid" than sudo.

I'm not a big fan of having to install software in Ubuntu by giving "(gtk)sudo" access. In my opinion it'd be better to be able to install single packages that don't touch /sys or etc without having to elevate privileges. At some point there will be an exploit regarding the post-install script that gets run after installing a package, and something naughty's gonna happen. 

magicalclick said:

geekling said:

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That doesn't explain why you want to use 2 OS in the first place, oh well, I don't really care.

I've always wanted a threesome.

JPeless said:

So it is OK when you misspell a word ("mispelled," no less) but you expect perfection of anyone that wants to provide an opinion of Windows 7?  It rocks, by the way.

i like turtles

turrican said:

geekling said:

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Just remember to uninstall all the OEM "crapware". A pre-installed OEM cluttered Windows 7 is one thing, a clean Windows 7 is something else.

 

We bought a small HP atom laptop, this thing is FULL OF JUNK!!! And some very odd HP apps which "checks your machine for health" (WTF?) which pops up in middle of movies and crap. The help system they installed took 20 MINUTES to uninstall!!! It had 10000000000000000000000000000 files!

 

But yeah, OEM crapware is for another thread I guess.

 

Since you are doing web-dev, this might be of interest too :  great free tools from Microsoft Express. ( I guess you already know this though. )

 I used to do C#, then ASP.NET back in the day. Traded up from Visual Studio 2003(?) to the Express tools, before I started experimenting with other languages in a Linux virtual machine. At some point I turned the virtual machine into a physical one, and never got back around to C#/ASP.NET.

Thanks for all the feedback. I think I'll get a machine with W7 pre-installed, then set it up for dual-booting with Ubuntu. My main concern is ease of use and speed. I use Ubuntu for about 8 hours a day (web development), and at some point in the past few months have realized that pretty much every tool I use on my Vista laptop is a web-app. I've got about 10 "app" tabs in Chrome open right now, in fact, with most of them being email, Meebo, some spread-sheets, that sort of thing.

 

Glad to know UAC is less annoying. I once had a Java install quietly check for updates on machine boot, so one of the first things I was greeted with when I logged in was the UAC dialog because Java absolutely positively had to install an update, right then, couldn't wait, too important to wait.

Yo. I haven't been to these forums in a-forever-ago, but I know that some of the old smart people still post here, so I thought I'd violate your airspace for a bit to ask what's new with Windows 7? Highest I've used so far is Vista, and I'm looking to replace this aging laptop with an Ubuntu-powered machine.

 

But first I'd like to know what some enthusiastic Windows-lovers have to say about W7. Experience from people who can spell their own name in a sentence without having it become a catastrophe of mispelled words and upside-down grammar.

 

I'm wonderin' if it's worth getting a machine with W7 pre-installed for dual-boot purposes. Otherwise I'll just keep my old copy of XP around in a virtual machine for compatibility.

man me and Flash were hanging out the other day and he didn't seem dead to me at all. we even went to Egypt to pick up some hot chicks but they do that thing where they gotta cover their face with a scarf so we were like "aw hells to the naw son" so we bounced over to china where the ladies are loose and the communism means free beer for everyone.

 

i mean, yeah, Flash was drunk when he went back to his crib in NY, NY, but i don't think he's dead or anything.

SourceSafe is great until you're told there's been a code regression somewhere and you can't simply say, "Roll back to Revision X/Y/Z and use that until we track down the problem."

Spoken from experience, unfortunately.

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Cairo wrote:Heh.

"nice" Photoshop job.

Hey, no need to get defensive. Read the dialog box: the operation completed successfully.