begin quoting Doug LaRue as of Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:22:23PM -0700: > ** Reply to message from Druppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 > 15:15:42 > -0700 [snip] > > Do I feel like fighting with a desktop machine to do my > > browsing / email / etc? > > I'm thinking you've not really tried Linux in the past few years > or at least not Ubuntu.
Embrace teh shiny. [snip] > > On top of that I still have yet to see a really good GUI in Linux. I > > think there is a lot to learn from OSX for example. Everything I see > > in X still seems... archaic. Meaning, "it works"? :) > And the Windows Graphical User Interface( GUI ) is different from the > Linux GUI's how? The convergence of the average Linux GUI environment with the MSWindows GUI environment is one (1) of the things that annoys me, and might well have the potential to drive me away from Linux. Thank goodness there are enough obnoxious geeks to keep that from happening, at least for the near term. > Are you talking the desktop or software development? > X handles pixels, networking and I/O so I just don't get what you are > talking about here and I'm guessing it really isn't about GUI development > at the Xlib level. X handles networking? I don't think I understand what you're trying to say here. -- I wish plan 9 would install for me under vmware fusion. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
