> Now OS-X really is a great OS, maybe the best commercial OS now > available. It's stunning, how they build an intuitive Desktop on a > Unix-core, something that neither in Gnome nor KDE really worked (I'm > still prefering the command line over those)
While OS X certainly has its strengths, I consider it far from being the best commercial OS. Maybe in terms of eye-candy. I find both XP and KDE much more user-friendly desktops than Aqua in terms of productivity: both Win and Linux OS's much more responsive (primarily due to hw architecture they run on). The thing with both KDE and Gnome is that they are not "pretty" out-of-the-box, but one can create very nice desktop environment with them with a bit of tweaking. Yet, my desktop is relatively plain since I simply look for productivity (i.e. virtual desktops rather than transparent windows). Aqua is rather over-bloated. Case-and-point, try to run one of the developer OpenGL examples (even simple ones, like rotating cube) and once the window is created, try to move it behind the transparent dock and you'll lose approx. 60% of the window's framerate, needless to mention up to 100% CPU utilization every time you do that pretty minimize-window animation... Also, in terms of being Unix, well it's not quite fully Posix compliant since (just to give an example) shell does not distinguish between capital letters and small letters, i.e. make a folder foo, and you can cd into it by typing cd FOO, foo, FoO etc. This has resulted in several Apache security loopholes that Apple had to patch up and only Lord knows how many more remain due to this kind of implementation... So, it's not Unix, it's not old Apple, it's not BSD, and it's not NEXT, so what the heck is it? ;-) Ico
