Steven den Beste has a long (even for him) discussion of what he doesn't particularly like about various flavors of Windows. I agree with many points. But I think he sums it up for many experienced computer users when he says:
What I really want, if only I could get it, is a single switch somewhere that said, "Please stop helping me. Please stop kibitzing. Please assume that I know exactly what I want, and please do exactly what I tell you to do." Please don't change my mouse-sweeps; I'll sweep the characters I want to sweep. Please don't change my directory views; I will tell you what format to use. Please stop being intrusive; please become invisible.Everyone I know has gripes like these. For example, I would really like it if Word would stop changing my indenting every few paragraphs. Posted by Kevin Murphy at November 17, 2003 12:39 PM | TrackBack