>> What's UAC? Is that new in Windows 7 or something? (I've only used
>> Vista.)
>
> It's the box that pops up and says "you're trying to run this as an
> administrator. Are you sure?"

Oh. What, you mean EXACTLY LIKE LINUX? Yeah, I can see how that's such 
an annoying Windows feature. :-P

Far more amusing is the fact that if you take, say, Notepad.exe and 
rename it to Setup.exe, suddenly Vista thinks it needs elevated 
privilages to run...

>> It's all too easy to break them though, or to end up with cryptic
>> error messages and need to look under the hood to find the "real"
>> error and
>> how to fix it.
>
> I never had YaST break something, or mess up manual configurations when
> I invoke the GUI.

Really? That's impressive. I've lost count of how many times the nice 
shine GUI for something or other has got confused or crashed or whatever 
and I had to spend an hour or two reading manpages to figure out where 
the *real* configuration files are and how to edit them to achieve what 
I actually wanted...

>> whereas the registry typically doesn't.
>
> *Because* you're supposed to be using the GUI. :-)

That was my point, yes.

>> Ubuntu seems to contantly want me to reboot when I install updates too. I
>> think the problem is more that Windows requires updating more often.
>
> There's more stuff that's "always running" and can't easily be shut down
> programmatically under Windows.

RPC.

I have no idea what this service does, but if you ever try to restart 
it, Windows crashes. No idea why. (One wonders why they even gave you 
the option to restart it in the first place...)

>> That's just it. Windows is one product, with one set of management tools.
>
> Well, XP, Vista, and Win7 are all quite different management-wise,
> methinks. :-)

Really? I haven't used Vista or 7 extensively, but I wasn't aware that 
anything had changed...

Regardless, *every* copy of (say) Vista has the same management 
capabilities. It's a "standard" part of a Windows system. Which I guess 
is just another way of saying "there's more than one Linux distro"...

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