Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3244

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When you offer actual evidence, rather than handwaving, it might be.

But all you do, is reiterate the same claims, with the same lack of actual data.

How do you do that?

So after you've had to drop out of the GUI, you can make an icon-menu item to run the shell script.

Doesn't sound easier than the Linux way to me. You have to do more, with more steps, handwave your way around a couple of gaps, and then claim it's easier your way...

So your evidence, that the OSX GUI is "easier to use" is that you can write a shell script, and bind it to an icon, compared to Linux, where you can write a shell script, adn bind it to an icon...

So how is OSX *easier*? At best, you've offered evidence that it's no harder, but you have offered nothing to back up your claim that it's *easier*.

Your claim is that OSX is "easier to use" When were you planning on showing how?

The subject of debate wasn't the CLI in OSX, but the GUI.

He points out that the supposed advantages, are minor at best. Consider. You have claimed that somehow, someone would be so confused by a different printer dialog, that they would be less able to work, but this same person, is expected to be able to write an applescript program to encrypt a file and send it to a remote machine?

No he doesn't. He points out that *your* claims of integration are hollow, full of many gaps, and ignore things that he finds useful.

Your claim is general, that OSX is "easier to use" yet when faced with concrete examples of things Kelsey says he needs to do, you whine that he's obsessing?

Face it, OSX *may* be easier for some tasks, for some people. IT certainly isn't easier for all, or even most, tasks, and people.

you admit your entire thread is silly? well, that's something anyway.

you made the general statement that OSX was easier to use.

While avoiding any areas where OSX *isn't* easier to use.

Kelsey asked you to back up your claims, all you've done, is a bunch of handwaving since then. Too bad, but at least you admitted it was a silly subject in the first place.

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