Windows 7 is pathetic

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soger	2011-01-26 11:41 GMT \| #1
Comments: 42	Recently I had the chance to try Windows 7 Well... let's see: My laptop came with a preinstalled Windows Vista so I have experience with that. When I started using Win7 I noticed that it is almost identical to Vista so I started searching the web for differences. You can find pages like this: http://www.whibb.com/win-7-windows-vista-difference.html Well, that may be true but the only thing that affects me is the new pinnable taskbar, the hideable labels (which I hate so I disabled immediately), and a few seconds faster startup. Not much... My only problem with Win7 is that it uses way too much disk space. It uses less than Vista, but is still much more then my linux uses. The bigger directory is WinSxS, but it's been told that we should not care about it's size because it contains hard links, so I'm going with the disk usage data (properties of C:): Windows 7 - 8.1 GB containing: - base system - Internet explorer 8, firefox - total commander - utorrent - 256 MB swap - why do we even need swap with 3.2GB RAM? I also disabled hibernation because it uses way too much space and I don't use it anyway Ubuntu 10.10 - 2.9 GB (no swap) containing: - base system (including Xorg, gnome, compiz, nautilus, brasero etc) - APT package management system - firefox, opera, chromium, epiphany, thunderbird, pidgin, skype, java browser plugin, azureus - google earth - gthumb, evince, openoffice - geany, gedit - pgadmin3 - virtualbox - gnome mplayer - wine Someone please explain to me where this huge difference comes from?!? My guess is that Windows 7 has a huge amount of files laying around but no one can delete them because nobody is sure what they do and what their removal would affect. WinSxS is the best example: instead of implementing a civilized package management, like everyone else does (see: MacPorts, APT, YUM etc) Microsoft comes up with one of the worst solutions I can think of: let's store every version of every file so every program will be happy. Once again Microsoft proved it's inferiority.