Reply to Re: Don't know how to install DMODS
If you don't have an account, just leave the password field blank.
I have to say that, while I also disliked it when they abandoned DOS (made old games hard to run), not having user accounts of any kind made it impossible to have any kind of security on your machine. Even if you only intend to use the computer yourself, you need to have accounts for internal security reasons, especially if you're going to connect to the Internet with it. That's a deeper problem than you could have taken care of by patching Windows 98.
There's still a point to make about planned obsolescence, though. It's silly that they've already moved on to Windows 8 (I've used it, it's absolutely dreadful). Can't blame you for considering Ubuntu. When I have to move on from Windows 7 I might go back to it or another version of Linux myself.
I've used Ubuntu, and in any kind of Linux you definitely don't want to run as root (the highest level user) all the time. Therefore, you're usually working with limited privileges and have to elevate with a password to do anything that really impacts your system. Microsoft's User Account Control from Windows 7 is just them finally catching up to this concept (though not well, as you've noted). Having said that, if you want control, you have tons of it with Linux. The command line interface is more powerful than DOS ever was (but harder to use). Once you get used to the command line, you might like it as much as DOS. I dunno.
I don't think Windows 7 is that bad of an OS, for the record (you can turn most of the bells and whistles off - I did). The command prompt (cmd) is still there if you want it. It works a lot like "DOS mode" used to (you can make batch files, etc).
Nowadays you can burn OSes like Ubuntu to a Boot CD and boot to it without making any changes to your computer to try it out if you like.
There's still a point to make about planned obsolescence, though. It's silly that they've already moved on to Windows 8 (I've used it, it's absolutely dreadful). Can't blame you for considering Ubuntu. When I have to move on from Windows 7 I might go back to it or another version of Linux myself.
I've used Ubuntu, and in any kind of Linux you definitely don't want to run as root (the highest level user) all the time. Therefore, you're usually working with limited privileges and have to elevate with a password to do anything that really impacts your system. Microsoft's User Account Control from Windows 7 is just them finally catching up to this concept (though not well, as you've noted). Having said that, if you want control, you have tons of it with Linux. The command line interface is more powerful than DOS ever was (but harder to use). Once you get used to the command line, you might like it as much as DOS. I dunno.
I don't think Windows 7 is that bad of an OS, for the record (you can turn most of the bells and whistles off - I did). The command prompt (cmd) is still there if you want it. It works a lot like "DOS mode" used to (you can make batch files, etc).
Nowadays you can burn OSes like Ubuntu to a Boot CD and boot to it without making any changes to your computer to try it out if you like.
