What I can take away from the collective thoughts above is this: effort spent trying to make windows better is generally wasted, and contributes to the problem of the proliferation of shitty software. I agree with this.
> As for "normal users" they need a good kick in a nuts to wake up and learn to > learn tools that they use. If people got behind car wheel with atitude they > get > behind computer life would get terrible very quickly for everyone. As someone > in some comment on slashdot stated: computig is only field where people come > knowing nothing about it, work with computer for 10 years and still do no know > shit about thier tool. That is pathetic. But I ask, what is the point of crafting a beautifully minimalist system if its not accessible? If your answer to this is: "screw those people who can not understand our system - they are too stupid to appreciate it anyways", then haven't you committed the same wrong that your fundamental principle of simplicity values so highly? > Anyhow, it might be good to get some more experience with Plan 9 and > suckless programs / systems / code style before posting too much here... > so that people will not have cause to abuse you. I've loaded (old) plan9 isos from Lucent in a virtualbox, and built & run Inferno hosted on windows and linux, but I haven't spent any significant time with them. It's cool how some ideas like /proc percolate upwards into linux land though. As for suckless programs, I used dwm last summer during an internship (on ubuntu though ironically), and it was great! I have since switched to debian + xmonad. st is a cool project and I will likely continue to use it. > You could write your own terminal or try to port st for 'fun'. You might > like to write a portable terminal in standard C or C++, [...] This is what I'm going to do. It's really more a learning exercise for me, I am still a student after all. I accept the fact that probably nobody will use or contribute to my project. My aim was not to start a flame war over windows here, I apologize if I created any noise. I really only still run windows because I play some games which only run on windows. Steam runs on Ubuntu but it's still a little premature, some severe memory management bugs. It looks like win8 is going to fail hard, and I think this in combination with Valve's linux push will enable a more robust ecosystem for commercial grade games shipping to linux.
