Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3248

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On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:19:54 -0700, Snit

Sorry, this doesn't - and never has - explained the steps involved to accomplish the job, hence cannot even begin to be compared in terms of ease of use, since there's nothing, yet, to measure against. Thus, despite repeated askings, you've still failed to answer.

Once again, you mislead. I have *no* hostility to OSX. I see no *benefit* to it for *my* needs, but that's not the same thing, now is it?

I've found your "support" for your claims of OSX's "ease of use" laughably lacking, your attempts to twist and dodge somewhat annoying, but that's you, and your argument, not OSX.

Indeed. A print dialog which isn't consistent. Of which (inconsistent dialogs) there have been many examples in Windows since time immemorial... and which haven't slowed me down an iota. Making this, as an argument for "ease of use", in the face of a concrete example of something that involves a real task, real work, getting done quickly and efficiently and with a minimum of fuss and hbuttle, something of an amusingly pointless item to keep bringing up.

If all you want is consistency of dialogs, stick with OSX. Me, I need to get work done. You can save yourself what, a half a second each time you print, because of the consistent dialog, whereas I can save myself far more time than that, by using the tools you keep hinting are somehow less user friendly.

I'll take the inconistent dialogs and the extra time saved, thanks.

By saying "I could do it with the GUI tool"? Not quite. Just because it's got a GUI doesn't make it a ten-second operation. Nor does that automate it and tuck it away, hidden from prying eyes and poking fingers.

So feel free, actually *do* it. An automated, compressed, encrypted, remote backup with auto-login to the remote host. With your GUI tools. And record the steps, so we can get an idea of just how much easier your way really is.

Once would suffice.

-- MS, because work should be measured by effort, rather than result.