Vista BLOWS

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: programmer
IMO, if you like a command line (DOS) or terminal window (UNIX) to do many things, you will be put off by Vista initially. It does make it harder for "power" users to find things with the intent of insulating less experienced users from the inner workings of the OS. Fortunately, Vista is fairly configurable and for the most part you can make it look and work like NT4/2000/XP and lose the "Vista-ness" of it.

Give it another year or two and it'll be a solid OS, and from Microsoft, you won't have any other choice--XP won't be sold after the end of this year, apparently. For now, I am sticking with XP, working more with Linux, and hoping OS X becomes available on all PCs.

I'm very much a power user -- even more so than others that claim the same and I disagree wholeheartedly.

There are more command line utilities than ever in Vista and there are elements have been sprinkled all over the shell that increase usefulness for power users. Customizable explorer you drop frequent folders into, the Ctrl-N key added to explorer. Search is unbelievably fast. Mousewheel-centric start menu, embedded burn button, Open folder here option the the context sensitive menu, etc etc.

If you are rolling back to classic mode then you aren't really a power user, you're just too lazy to learn something new and recognize added efficiencies. Have you even gotten good at Vista yet or are you just one of those MS haters that tries it just long enough so you can gripe? I'm also not really sure how you are making an argument about "insulating less experienced users from the inner workings of the OS" then go on to support OS X which is notorious for this.

do you know of a "open command prompt here" that works in vista?

No joke, you can't call yourself a "power user" if you don't have to have "Open Command Prompt here" in your right-click menu 😀