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Originally Posted by bigtomrodney  Two things that did stand out though in the review; UAC and RAM. The UAC prompt when you were entering control panel and doing your system updates is much the same as doing the equivalent actions in Ubuntu right? You need to approve any updates you do through update manager, so I was a little suprised by your reaction to this. |
The difference is that the only thing I need to "approve" in Ubuntu is adding and removing software, and I only have to do it once when I launch the program. UAC was asking me to approve every action I took and every dialog that popped up.
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The other bit was RAM. I believe that Microsoft have moved to a new memory management system more similar to our own Unix/Linux model. That is use what you have until you need it, the usual caching thing. Could that have been the large RAM usage or do you think in this case it was just overuse by Vista?
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That is definitely a possibility. If I run into articles describing that I'll update the rant. However, even with that as a consideration Vista offers no significant improvements over XP for me, and a heck of a lot more headaches.
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Don't get me wrong I'm no Microsoft fan, just trying to get a fair measure.
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I understand. If I get something factually incorrect, I'm usually good about fixing it. I'm sure the response emails will come rolling in pretty soon and I'll get at least one person who brings up the RAM issue.
Memory aside, I'm still shocked at the 33GB of my harddrive that was taken up for what looked like a basic install. Or did Microsoft start reporting harddrive usage as a cache as well?
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