War on the Wintrolls 2768
Me too, George. I had absolutely no trouble with the OS X learning curve. I was up and...
On Sat, 13 May 2006 20:47:28 +0000, George Graves
Trying to meld the Nextstep UI with the Mac OS UI, for one. Causes quite a few UI inconsistencies, that. OS X's interface is actually rather schizophrenic compared to something like GNOME--it takes random concepts from Nextstep (like, say, the dock) and marries them to seemingly random concepts from Mac OS (like, say, the Mac OS style menu bar). With the examples cited above, you end up having Mac OS's document-oriented menuing system combined with Nextstep's atrocious window management. Sure, Apple put together a kludge to alleviate the immediate symptom (Expose)--but a more elegant (and intuitive) solution would have been to simply fix the underlying UI inconsistency that causes the problem in the first place.
Don't even get me started on the stupidity of Apple's decision to use XNU for OS X's kernel. They would have been much, much better off using a real BSD kernel.
If you don't care about pricing, the pricing doesn't matter? How profound. I think I now understand why Apple has 3% of the desktop PC market.
Less steep than OS X, really. If I handed someone a pre-installed Ubuntu or SuSE box, I'd lay good money on a new user figuring out how to work with it before they would OS X on a new Mac.
You mean like the so-called "CD player"? As far as I know, no Linux distro even has a true Media player, including a Library. None of the large houses...
How so?
Most of the people I hear complaining about OSS software make the claim that the UIs are bad, not that the applications are lacking features. Can you cite some examples (maybe four or five major Linux applications that are lacking major features compared to their Windows or OS X equivalents)?
Uhh, what world are you living in? Even wintrolls hesitate to say that OSS software (on the whole) has a slow release cycle.
Can you support this claim? OSS has a different development model, yes. GNU-Linux also tends to be a fairly chaotic platform, as a whole. But there are a lot of advantages to going in every direction at once.
That's my experience as well. Unfortuinately, free usually means that one gets what one pays for...
Just like how I think OS X is, at best, a mediocre operating system. Certainly not worth paying Apple's premium for it.
On Thu, 18 May 2006 03:34:36 -0700, Donald L McDaniel 1999 called, they want their complaint back. Really, try something...