I used to have Vista, and was often asking for permissions, so i found a way to pretty much negate it (TakeOwnership, and Unlocker). And rarely ran Virus software, and did never needed it, Thank God.
Users should know what is loading with the PC and what is using CPU cycles. A helpful free utility for Windows is “What’s my computer doing?” It shows all programs (with details), that are accessing your hard disk or using the CPU. You also have the option to close these programs or even uninstall them. http://www.itsth.com/en/produkte/Whats-my-computer-doing.php?fromwmcd And WinPatrol (freeware) is also very useful, as it alerts you to surreptitious changes.
In time, things like this may be useful for Linux.
There should be a program that tells more about Internet traffic. I do use the mvps host file which blocks a lot of unwanted sites. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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In time, things like this may be useful for Linux.
All I can say is "wow". You either haven't used Linux in a looooooooooooooooong time or not at all. I can think of multiple ways to do all of that through Linux, from the lowly "ps" command to see running processes, their owner, and just about anything you want to know about them including the full command line as they were invoked, to 'top', or even better - "htop" which shows what's happening on your box at the process and cpu level pretty much real time, to a full-scale system profiler (sysprof), which will identify processes all the way down to individual system calls so you can tell exactly where time is being spent on your computer ti an almost insanely granular level. Then there are things like the KDE or Gnome process managers, that function similarly to the windows process manager, though they give you a lot more power than the toy-like limitiations imposed by microsoft. There are others as well that I don't use because the tools I'm familiar with do everything I want better than anything available out of the box with windows.
Additionally, I have a choice of five or six file managers. Personally I'm kinda partial to "Dolphin" these days, but if I don't like it, or I don't like the direction the developers have decided to take it, I'm perfectly free to use many others including several that operate similar to 'midnight commander', which have some rather excellent features.
All if this is available, as I mentioned previously via yum, (yumex, or any of several package managers). Again, it's all incredibly flexible. You can mix and match what you want to make a system that works for you the way you like it.
Similarly, I have I thionk 6 web browsers installed. I generally use firefox, but use the others for testing because I like to make sure my code is RFC compliant.
Finally, I don't see how anyone can live with a single desktop. I generally run 8, and each program or program type has a specific home, so I know instantly where to go for a word-processor or HTML editor, or browser, or command prompt, file manager, or any of dozens of programs that I might have open at any one time. I don't to worry about finding programs buried underneath other ones, or any of the other weird annoyances that you are limited with in a standard windows install. Any time I have to suffer through sitting at a windows desktop, it's an experience of pure frustration because it simply does not multitask the way I do. Don't get me started about the single windows clipboard. OMG, talk about seriously limiting.
My advise would be to perhaps spend a little time learning about what modern Linux desktop interfaces are like before you start recommending things that "may be useful for Linux". Otherwise, you come off sounding somewhat uninformed.