The crazy thing was Vista was great with good hardware. The huge problem it had was strong security. Everything was locked down and required admin elevation to change.

You know how Linux requires su for every system change and everyone thinks that's fine? That was Vista but it enraged techies to click an ok box for su.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember defending it online against a bunch of Linux users and I got told that the UAC prompt is overbearing while having to type your password is fine because it’s just “muscle memory”.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every technology that gets used frequently enough facilitates maladaptation to its faults. 😑

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