On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 18:33 +0300, Kirill S. Palagin wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lee Wiggers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 4:23 PM > > What's the big flap about MS? Everyone is acting like this > > is a new behavior. Vista is another iteration of the old MS > > song and dance. > > > > Pick another os and relax. You may have to invest a little > > time in familiarization, but the freedom is well worth the > > small effort. > > It is not just "time in familiarization"! > It is everyday pain in usability even with latest versions.
It is relative. Ubuntu is largely painless ;-) > > Trivial "look and feel" sucks big way Aiglx + beryl beats any other OS on the planet. > (start KDE's System Monitor and > compare that to 10-year old Task Manager in Windows NT4), ksysguard ? ......... please > functionality > lucks (which browser on Linux can do File\Send Page, so that recipient > receives double-clickable file and not .php or suchlike?), "another os" > are resource hogs (Vista RC1 is more responsive on Athlon 800/512MB than > FC5) or hmmmm ..... > have more holes than Win95 > (http://news.com.com/Apple+Mac+OS+X+patch+plugs+31+vulnerabilities/2100- > 1002_3-6139117.html?tag=cd.top) . This is pure FUD. One can play around with definitions and statistics and say pretty much anything especially things like "more holes than win95 means win* is more secure than the alternative ", without specifying that the software bug in the two systems are different and it is like comparing apples and oranges. > Even our lovely developers do not seem to value usability that much - > they ignore trivial to fix issues, that are 3 years old. See > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15220 > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10931 > I am with you on this :-) -G > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
