Windows 7 : giving me hell of a headache

So finally i've got a windows 7 copy. I fired it up in Vmware Workstation(As i'm not giving any physical resources to a microsoft product, no offence. All my life i was a linux/unix user and i'm happy to stay that way. i will only run vstudio so that i can have some familiarity with the windows development environment )

My friends said very good things about this version of windows. And also praised the power shell. But as far as i have seen nothing looks or acts better than then my past short encounter with windows xp. Only thing i can see is the UI is bloated with graphics and annoying stuff just keep popping up which i do not need. another thing the Power shell is terribly slow. which kills the idea of having a powerful programming shell if it responds the same rate as the bloated graphics. The default text editor of windows is notepad which is kind of a joke. It does not have anything at all. why microsoft is shipping this poorly designed software with their system is beyond my understanding. its command line back end EDIT is also useless. Recently i came to know edit was based on PICO. which was bought by Mr.Gates in the early days of microsoft. I kind of dont understand why he bought the worst editor possible when several superior editors existed. even ken Thompsons original "ed" from 70's outperforms edit or notepad in every way possible. So i first downloaded gvim and emacs so that atleast i can edit stuff.

After installing i tried to update windows. It installed several security patches. And i made a mistake of directly plugging a usb drive into windows and a malware crawled in. It was written by a fellow classmate at the uni 6 months ago as a joke. but quickly it got into every windows machine in our university dorms. And surprisingly it is not detected by many commercial antivirus program. NOD 32 commercial version can detect it. after paying a huge money for windows itself, spending nearly all of my savings from my part time job, i am in no mood of buying another piece of expensive software. So i tried to clean it by several free antivirus program and finally avira could detect it and disinfect it.

Visual studio is a huge monolith which eats resources like a angry hungry beast. So i tried to find out a way so that i dont have to fire up the whole ide to start working. to do that i need to use compilers, make utility and debuggers separately. i havent managed to do that successfully.

Lastly i asked my friends advocated windows why he is using it. He answered that a microsoft developer likely to get more paid or find better paying job. It reminded me a famous quote from richard stallman, "Dont let the money controlling you". I felt terrible about the idea of consuming a software which i do not like or feel comfortable with only because somewhere down the road i will be needing a shiny house , a shiny car etc. The fun and excitement i have always enjoyed in programming and computers, algorithms, Artificial intelligence all of them are sacrificed straight ahead for having a life which fundamentally broken social systems approves of.

So i think someday i will be strong enough to wipe clean this windows virtual machine and all is malengineered flaws with it.

TuxKernel said:

All my life i was a linux/unix user and i'm happy to stay that way ... But as far as i have seen nothing looks or acts better than then my past short encounter with windows xp ... After installing i tried to update windows. It installed several security patches. And i made a mistake of directly plugging a usb drive into windows and a malware crawled in ... I felt terrible about the idea of consuming a software which i do not like or feel comfortable with only because somewhere down the road i will be needing a shiny house , a shiny car etc ... So i think someday i will be strong enough to wipe clean this windows virtual machine and all is malengineered flaws with it.

Many people on this forum have apparently been using Windows since Windows 1.0 circa 1985. Some folks go even farther back with DOS and Unix. We come to forums like this to learn and share experiences. No one is forcing any of us to use something we don't like. Not happy with Windows? Uninstall it today rather than someday.

Have a real nice day.

I absolutely understand this familiarity problem and i also do not call myself someone who is not willing to learn. So i will be tweaking windows stuff for sure. Operating systems are designed to serve the people not the other way around. As different people always have different choices so its all comes down to a matter of personal choice.

I have disabled the Aero ....it runs better now. spawning a app does not require to raise the temptation of killing the process from task manager.

Another thing i still dont understand that is the permissions associated with files in windows. As i see there is a default administrator account ....what privileges are taken away from normal user generally?

I seem to be able to install stuff without logging into admin account.

TuxKernel said:

So finally i've got a windows 7 copy. I fired it up in Vmware Workstation(As i'm not giving any physical resources to a microsoft product, no offence. All my life i was a linux/unix user and i'm happy to stay that way. i will only run vstudio so that i can have some familiarity with the windows development environment )

My friends said very good things about this version of windows. And also praised the power shell. But as far as i have seen nothing looks or acts better than then my past short encounter with windows xp. Only thing i can see is the UI is bloated with graphics and annoying stuff just keep popping up which i do not need. another thing the Power shell is terribly slow. which kills the idea of having a powerful programming shell if it responds the same rate as the bloated graphics. The default text editor of windows is notepad which is kind of a joke. It does not have anything at all. why microsoft is shipping this poorly designed software with their system is beyond my understanding. its command line back end EDIT is also useless. Recently i came to know edit was based on PICO. which was bought by Mr.Gates in the early days of microsoft. I kind of dont understand why he bought the worst editor possible when several superior editors existed. even ken Thompsons original "ed" from 70's outperforms edit or notepad in every way possible. So i first downloaded gvim and emacs so that atleast i can edit stuff.

After installing i tried to update windows. It installed several security patches. And i made a mistake of directly plugging a usb drive into windows and a malware crawled in. It was written by a fellow classmate at the uni 6 months ago as a joke. but quickly it got into every windows machine in our university dorms. And surprisingly it is not detected by many commercial antivirus program. NOD 32 commercial version can detect it. after paying a huge money for windows itself, spending nearly all of my savings from my part time job, i am in no mood of buying another piece of expensive software. So i tried to clean it by several free antivirus program and finally avira could detect it and disinfect it.

Visual studio is a huge monolith which eats resources like a angry hungry beast. So i tried to find out a way so that i dont have to fire up the whole ide to start working. to do that i need to use compilers, make utility and debuggers separately. i havent managed to do that successfully.

Lastly i asked my friends advocated windows why he is using it. He answered that a microsoft developer likely to get more paid or find better paying job. It reminded me a famous quote from richard stallman, "Dont let the money controlling you". I felt terrible about the idea of consuming a software which i do not like or feel comfortable with only because somewhere down the road i will be needing a shiny house , a shiny car etc. The fun and excitement i have always enjoyed in programming and computers, algorithms, Artificial intelligence all of them are sacrificed straight ahead for having a life which fundamentally broken social systems approves of.

So i think someday i will be strong enough to wipe clean this windows virtual machine and all is malengineered flaws with it.

Good morning to you too, dear troll.

Now let's talk about ice-cream. Does it do more harm than good?

I fired it up in Vmware Workstation....

And that is your whole problem.

eldinv said:

LOL... What a shame, running Windows 7 on VMware will never give you a true experience.

This thread needs to be locked and removed.

What VMWare? He's lying through his teeth. VMWare actually costs money, remember?

That powershell tidbit is a dead giveaway. The guy has never even seen a cmdlet in his trolling life, let alone xecuted one. Let's move on to better uses of our time, shall we?