I’ve grown to appreciate the new Win7 toolbar enough that when I have Windows “on top”. Aside: Linux Mint runs in a VM, now, so I no longer have to dual boot with Ubuntu, save in those rare instances when I attach an old peripheral and need hardware compatibility. Eh? Linux for hardware compatibility?!? Yes, like today when I discovered I’d misfiled the power supply to our nice scanner and had to plug in an “old” Canoscan LIDE 20. Apparently, Canon isn’t all that interested in making an older, $50 (retail, if you can even find it retail anymore) scanner compatible w/Win7. Yeh, Canon offers a driver it says works, but Canon lies. *heh* Anywho–Ubuntu is much better at having drivers for some older hardware, I’ve found, than Win7.
But back on point. Clean desktop.
Yes, I edited my location out of the weather widget. Anyone with two active brain cells can locate me, if they’ve read here long, but no sense giving trolls an easier time of it.
The point is simply that, since the Win7 toolbar is more useful than in previous iterations, and the “Start Orb” includes some very nice ease of use functionality, although I do have a bunch of icons on my desktop, I can hide ’em and not really miss out on getting things rolling whenever I need to.
Very nice.
Ubuntu (and Mint and most other Linux distros, as well as desktop BSD distros) includes other kinds of usability tweaks and features that allow me to keep clean a desktop when I run it, too–just differently.
No clutter. Quite a contrast to my RW desktop. *heh*
Sharp looking desktop there David. I agree with you 100%. I’m about to upgrade my mom to Win 7 too. It’s so easy to live with, I know she’ll love it.
Indeed, Woody, Win7 is, IMO, the best offering M$ has made for the desktop since Win2KM Pro, and it is a much, much improved GUI.
BTW, be sure to check out the disk imaging capabilities built into Win7’s backup app. Much improved. Easily good enough to replace Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost for most users. In fact, on our Win7 machines, I actually am replacing the Acronis product with the use of Win7’s built in disk imaging. One less third party app to keep upgraded.