Re: OT - Desktop Linux

Sports Fan wrote:

In article <hZadnQwaXIuRYpHZRVn-uQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
"$Bill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why can't I delete a file that's in use ?


You can, just not the regular way.

Lately, some of the apps are allowing me to (I assume they are opening
it using different flags than usual) - what's the irregular way ?

Why do I have to reboot when an weekly OS update is made ?

When device drivers are installed/updated,Windows needs to be rebooted
because of the way HAL is designed.

No drivers involved usually. Time for a re-design. After I run my weekly
update, I take the stupid reboot popup and push it off my screen (except
for the upper left .5 cm) and just hide it there until there's a more
appropos time to reboot.

Why can't they once and for all change the use of (\ /) to (/ -) like
in UNIX and everywhere else (one of your DOS-isms) ?

Microsoft tried to be different.

Time to be a team player and replace \ with / (including the registry)
and / with - (for switches).

Memory leaks are the most annoying thing for me in Windows, and makes it
a liability on servers that run critical services.

I only have PC experience with Doze, so don't encounter much of that.
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