It’s funny that elevation of permissions is something handled elegantly in Linux since forever, but M$ just can’t make it happen.
UAC is slow, ineffective, and inconsistent. But even when you turn it off you find some directories are off limits still. Even while you can vandalize regedit and gpedit all day long.
The “hello Windows” system of pins and bio-metrics may be an improvement, IDK. I liked using a PIN for logins and stuff right up until I needed the real password for something.
Or maybe that’s the problem: the fact that M$ handles elevation of permission in 6 different and contradictory ways that all have to be backward comparable.
. . .6 different and contradictory ways that all have to be backward comparable.
After witnessing their handling of Control Panel vs. “trendy no-option we-think-you’re-stupid Control Panel” for like 4 straight versions, I think this has just become their philosophy at this point. Lol
I was just forced to upgrade at work. There are still number of dependencies to the old style of settings, but they’ve done great job on the new panel for the most part.
Everything is in one place, no longer do we have dozen different modals for everything, it makes a lot more sense, provides more information about devices.
It’s obviously a lot of work, but I think they’re taking it in the right direction.
Back in the day when I was running Windows 7, I had an incident that caused some minor file system corruption. Honestly I can’t blame Windows itself, turned out I had a couple bad capacitors, which I replaced.
But the file system corruption? Oh boy that was ever so simple, but still totally borked the entire system!
The Event Log files lost all permissions, even System level permissions, and CHKDSK wasn’t having any of that even…
Windows gets really fucking pissy when the event log doesn’t work.
It’s funny that elevation of permissions is something handled elegantly in Linux since forever, but M$ just can’t make it happen.
UAC is slow, ineffective, and inconsistent. But even when you turn it off you find some directories are off limits still. Even while you can vandalize regedit and gpedit all day long.
The “hello Windows” system of pins and bio-metrics may be an improvement, IDK. I liked using a PIN for logins and stuff right up until I needed the real password for something.
Or maybe that’s the problem: the fact that M$ handles elevation of permission in 6 different and contradictory ways that all have to be backward comparable.
After witnessing their handling of Control Panel vs. “trendy no-option we-think-you’re-stupid Control Panel” for like 4 straight versions, I think this has just become their philosophy at this point. Lol
I was just forced to upgrade at work. There are still number of dependencies to the old style of settings, but they’ve done great job on the new panel for the most part.
Everything is in one place, no longer do we have dozen different modals for everything, it makes a lot more sense, provides more information about devices.
It’s obviously a lot of work, but I think they’re taking it in the right direction.
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Back in the day when I was running Windows 7, I had an incident that caused some minor file system corruption. Honestly I can’t blame Windows itself, turned out I had a couple bad capacitors, which I replaced.
But the file system corruption? Oh boy that was ever so simple, but still totally borked the entire system!
The Event Log files lost all permissions, even System level permissions, and CHKDSK wasn’t having any of that even…
Windows gets really fucking pissy when the event log doesn’t work.
Windows has sudo now.
I really wish they used different name for that utility though, since it has nothing to do with ““Linux””
sudo.It is like when they released a package manager called winget, which is not really a package manager, but more like a program/installer manager.
[citation needed].
Just tried it, got told that it is not a valid command.
Had to enable it, and got prompted to do so, but it works just fine.