Gabriel Sechan wrote:
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:44:46 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
[email protected] Subject: Yeah! Why Not?; A Post to
Slashdot
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Source Developers vs Commercial Developers, by Anonymous Coward
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=604933&cid=24071053
How is it possible that open source developers have been working on
KDE for a decade now and they still can't come up with something
remotely polished as Win2k was years ago?
Funny- if you gave me a choice between Windows (XP or 2K), Mac, and
KDE- I'd say KDE was the best GUI, windows 2nd, and mac a far, far
distant 3rd. FOr the life of me I can't understand why people think
OSX is a good UI- I find it completely unusable, and far too high on
eye candy.
As someone who gets stuck using them all, I know why my favorite UI is OS X.
1) I administer the system the least
2) Quicksilver
The first one is the primary reason I changed away from Linux. I was
always shaving some yak before being able to get work done. I don't
really thing about system administration on OS X. I plug something in
and it works. Yeah, there is some fairly esoteric hardware or really
cheap and nasty hardware that only works on Windows, but most of the
core components are already taken care of. Graphics cards, printers,
and wireless Just Work(tm).
It was OpenGL graphics card configurations that broke the camel's back
and caused me to move to OS X. I never looked back.
The second one, Quicksilver, is one of the things that offers me a
"between ground" in between all-UI driven and all-command-line driven.
I don't have to navigate through nested folders to find and launch my
application. I don't have to hunt for the command name in the
filesystem to run something. I don't have to pop open an entire
terminal window to run one command.
Apparently Linux finally has a Quicksilver clone--"GNOME Do"
However, Dear Diety, that name sucks.
As a side note, there is one specific piece of OS X eyecandy that I do
have enabled--Expose. It's *amazing* how much I miss it when I move to
another system that doesn't have it. It's just completely burned into
my muscle memory.
-a
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