Thursday, February 17, 2005

Windoze lusers: how do they cope?

So here I am, in Edmonton working as a Solaris sysadmin for a rather large Telco. Despite being a UNIX admin, for some reason I have a Windoze PeeCee on my desk. To be specific, a Dull Optiplex GX150, with a 1GHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM, running Windoze XP.

Well, "running" is the wrong word to use. No word of a lie, this machine is slower than my SS20--heck it's probably slower than my SS2! To add insult to injury (or should that be the other way round?), this keyboard is by far the worst one I've ever used. Yep, there's finally a keyboard I loath more than Sun's Type 6, and I have the misfortune to have to use it everyday. I'm spoiled by my Type 5 keyboard, so I've ordered one of those Type 5 to USB converters from VPI so I can use a decent keyboard on this thing.

But back to my rant. I can't believe how unproductive the use of Windoze makes one, even taking into account the slower machine. You have to keep moving your hands away from the keyboard to fiddle with the damn mouse, and you can't even give a window focus just by moving a mouse into it (you have to click in it first), and when you do get focus, the bloody window puts itself on top!

Most people seem to think that this is OK (obviously they're too used to this crap), but what really pisses me of if that none of this stuff is user-configurable! Yeah, you can download some widgets from M$ to change this (apparently), but in this corporate environment, users don't have install rights on their PCs.

"WIndoze is everywhere" say the proponents of this shit. Well, all I can say is that ubiquity is no reason to accept mediocrity.

And I won't even start on how useless Outhouse is as an email client...

3 Comments:

At 18/2/05 02:13, Blogger Phillip Fayers said...

You've picked up on one of the (many) things which annoys me about Windows. Why does the window with focus have to be in the front?

If you take a look at a typical PC users desktop it will have one window, which ever app they are working with, filling the whole screen. They just don't seem to get the idea that you can have more than one window up at once. Then there's so much candy around that window (menu bar, a few toolbars, scrollbars, title bar, footer bar etc) that the business end of the app only occupies about 60% of the working area.

Under NT you could hack the registry to allow follow focus and no-raise on window focus. For some reason they took that away with XP.

 
At 18/2/05 02:58, Blogger Peter Tribble said...

I tried using the windows power toys once to change the focus policy back to the normal one I was used to. The odd thing was that this simply drove me mad and I soon reverted back to the windows default.

Mind you, I'm not enamoured of the JDS focus policy ether. Even though I've set it to focus follows mouse with no auto raise, in fact it is very erratic in this behaviour (in other words you often find that the focus is actually in some other window). Opening/closing windows or changing desktop simply confuses it.

The biggest productivity loss I find using the windows machine at home is going from a resolution of twin 1600x1200 to 1024x768. Must get a better monitor to fix that.

 
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