I just can't imagine having Windows on my computers again. *nix(especially Linux) feel much more user friendly to me. It is absolutely uncomfortable using Windows when sometimes I just have to(at school, fixing somebody else's computer etc.) Arch Linux is great. Ubuntu will be better if it has a rolling release.
Just about every place that I've worked with Windows has had its own 'special' set of restrictions.
Where I'm at now for instance in the Windows menu is an option "Switch User" but it is disabled. For various reasons, I need to do a lot of user switching, and I find myself desperately missing the OS X fast-user switching. Having to log out and log in all the time is a massive PITA.
So I caught myself thinking "man, Windows is sooooo retarded". But it's not really Windows fault (I assume, unless they put that menu option in just to taunt us).
Then it ocurred to me that perhaps a contributing reason I like OS X and despise Windows, is that I've never had to do battle with a retardedly locked-down version of OS X. If your average IT dept could get access to my home machine, I'm sure they could reduce me to moaning and misery in fairly short order. :-/
The point is not how to solve one particular restriction, but that every IT department has bizarre and stupid restrictions. And that, over time, all these papercuts to the soul will take their toll.
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I just can't imagine having Windows on my computers again. *nix(especially Linux) feel much more user friendly to me. It is absolutely uncomfortable using Windows when sometimes I just have to(at school, fixing somebody else's computer etc.) Arch Linux is great. Ubuntu will be better if it has a rolling release.
Something that occurs to me is this:
Just about every place that I've worked with Windows has had its own 'special' set of restrictions.
Where I'm at now for instance in the Windows menu is an option "Switch User" but it is disabled. For various reasons, I need to do a lot of user switching, and I find myself desperately missing the OS X fast-user switching. Having to log out and log in all the time is a massive PITA.
So I caught myself thinking "man, Windows is sooooo retarded". But it's not really Windows fault (I assume, unless they put that menu option in just to taunt us).
Then it ocurred to me that perhaps a contributing reason I like OS X and despise Windows, is that I've never had to do battle with a retardedly locked-down version of OS X. If your average IT dept could get access to my home machine, I'm sure they could reduce me to moaning and misery in fairly short order. :-/
Have you tried asking your IT dept why it's disabled, and if you could have it turned on?
If it's actually adversely affecting your work then it's worth doing something about it.
The point is not how to solve one particular restriction, but that every IT department has bizarre and stupid restrictions. And that, over time, all these papercuts to the soul will take their toll.