__/ [ Jim ] on Monday 31 July 2006 12:32 \__
> Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> In article <1154329060.371179.277480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Want to make sure your operating system isn't pulling any obscure or
>>> undocumented tricks behind your back? Use Linux!
>>
>> If Linux had this feature and Windows didn't, I bet you'd be posting how
>> it is a Linux advantage.
>>
> TBH, I can't see the advantage. Maybe I'm just being blonde. I gotta ask
> though, how many times does one need to tell the file manager that he
> doesn't need the file anymore, that he needs the space for something else
> (think: digital video/DVD images, which takes a LOT of space)?
> I only want to tell it ONCE.
> SHIFT+DELETE (which on my Dell C840 is pretty hard to do by accident) gives
> me my space back. IFAICT, this new feature in Vista doesn't, in fact it
> uses /more/ space than the file itself to store it, hidden away somewhere.
> Not a good situation if you're doing video work on the road and you only
> have a hundred Gig drive.
Linux can achieve all of this /upon demand/. It just doesn't
do this by default; I am not sure it can present a
simplified UI, either (albeit a day or two with GTK or
Trolltech Qt Designer can 'fix' that). I thought about this
feature while walking down the street. To be honest with
you, that demo which shows a picture of a flower with some
transitions (that which you see in various articles about
this new feature)... I just can't see how it becomes useful.
My mother, for example, will only ratate an image 90/270
degrees. That's the most she would do. No manipulation of
any kind. So why revert to old(er) versions? For text it's
rather impractical for reasons I mentioned in an earlier
post on the subject.
The idea is neat in theory. What's to gain? To most of us --
nothing. What's to lose: privacy; disk space; performance;
complexity. Vista remains "too little too late"^tm. People
could find better uses for a rational database-based
fileystem, which Linux has already got (as well as the
semantic one), unlike Windows Vista. Beagle and other
similar tools complement this further.
Best wishes,
Roy
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