Originally Posted by
mixture
And the biggest problems techs have is dealing with people like you that have ambitious ideas above their station and who can never quite grasp why it's not quite possible to do things their way...
I think you need to separate design & development from the techies you work with. The techies are merely making the worst of a bad job, working within the constraints of the software put in front of them. Poorly designed, bug riddled software frustrates techies as much as it does you.
Rather than toss you in a box as you have done me, I'll call your bet and raise....
I fully understand that to run certain programs etc, they sometimes require that other programs run first so they can access them to make the whole mess work. Which is not the problem here. What I speak of is when the tech comes along and I find that I've now got programs installed that I don't want because "everybody has that" or "everybody uses that". As you can tell, I am NOT everybody. And I don't care how everyone else does anything. Or they reconfigure things because they find them easier to access that way, even if I don't. In this,
I am not referring to that which cannot be done any other way because of how the OS was designed, but the person whose usage is far different than mine who can't get it through their thick skull that I know what I want and it's not what they want. More than one tech has been surprised that when done my way, I can take my old clunker and go from off to any webpage faster than their newer, hotter machine can. I still keep up with them when I need any other program loaded after I'm started. And that is exactly what I most want-
speed, not flash or fancy.
Back to MS OS's, they want you to use certain things as default, and they can be persistent buggers to get rid of so that you can use what you prefer instead they way they are bundled. Even doing a 'custom install' doesn't give you an option of not having them unless you dump the whole bundle. All you can do is go in and uninstall or delete the offenders after you load all their crap and load what you want afterward.
How about an option of installing just the OS with nothing else packaged in with it? I've never seen that option, something is always hidden in there which you can do without. The nice part is that once their chosen crap is gone, everything loads faster and works better than ever.
I'm lucky that I have access to a few guys who really know their stuff and will listen to 'dummies' like me. They've done well helping me get what I want and nothing else. Only one is stuck with MS, the others have gone to LINUX and when I have time to learn it, I'm following them. It can't worse than trying to learn yet another MS OS which is totally unlike the one before it.
And then I'll be done with those folks who can't understand that we're not all alike and that some of us have minds of our own.