Quote: "Quote:" while I can easily crack any mechanism I want"
Yeah, everyone knows how to use Google."
If that were the case, I wouldn't do at least three virus removals to do per week and I wouldn't have seen half the stuffed-up systems I have that were owing to well-meaning users "fixing" their PC. A web search is a last resort and should be considered with care. People who just "google it" and follow some know-it-all, "elite haxxor"-blogger's advice are setting themselves up for a worse situation than they started with. Bottom line: no one should just be "Googling" it the same way one shouldn't perform heart surgery on their kid by following the steps they saw in the video on some guy's "Hw 2 do serjery on ur hart" blog. Oh, I use Ixquick, not Google because Google have done a lot of things I find disagreeable lately, Glass was the last straw.
Quote: "I just feel that Windows isn't really designed in such away that you can plug in 3rd party software in place of its core functionality."
I agree with you, it's not. That's why it's a frustrating OS. I don't intend to replace explorer completely, I just wanted another FM to browse my files with and it works great. Explorer was crashing on me because I had too many instances across multiple "desktops" and VirtuaWin was, obviously, the compatibility issue. So having another FM should solve it. I haven't replaced the full shell, although I'm considering Light Step when I have a chance to test it in a VM. "Tinkering" is in my nature. Maybe that's the real reason I like most GNU/Linux OSes.
"I was in nASA before it was cool" -- Original nASA Members (nonZero, DJD and TheComet)
