12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
7:32 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Liam Proven<lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
2009/6/12 Kirn Gill <segin2005 at gmail.com>:
It's shiny.
But on the other hand, nobody moves slower than a Mac user. "Ok, time
to switch over to Word on the other desktop. Press the 'show me
desktops' button, swipe swipe swipe swipe swipe the touchpad until the
cursor finally points at the right desktop. Now hit that button that
spreads out all the windows, swipe swipe swipe swipe over to the right
window." Me, I just hit Alt-(number key), since I use xmonad.
And then once you finally get to the window you want, somehow OS X is
the most crowded desktop ever. First off you have a bar along the top
and an intermittent big dock along the bottom. Then, somehow, all the
software conspires to make a laptop or a desktop screen feel like a
PDA screen.
Oh, and then the laptop owners scold you if you open the screen past
about the 90 degree point... due to all the crappy molded plastic.
It's not bad, and you can probably customize away some of that (key
shortcuts?), but I'd rather use a Windows interface with a Unix-ish
core underneath (provided they give me multiple desktops).
Also, if you're getting kicked/slashed as you ride past people, you're
riding waaaay too close to pedestrians, especially what are apparently
stupid chav pedestrians. I'm reading this mailing list for the fun
tech info and the flamewars... if I wanted to read about "the Other"
and whatnot I'd go hang out in a freshman liberal arts class ;)
Besides, traditional bikes are for Real Men who don't mind riding on a
hard seat the size of a bagel. :)
John
--
"I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
"free, powerful and useful" does not
describe any viable consumer OS
at the moment.
At point, the only consumer OSes really worth considering (more than
7.5% market share) are Windows and Mac OS X.
If you are trying to apply "free, powerful and useful" to Windows, you
need your head examined.
Well, as the man said, two out of three ain't bad.
It's powerful and it's useful. And in practice, for most people, it
*is* free, because it comes with the computer.
Mac OS X... is an abomination. A design (look and
feel) that sucks
using a interface toolkit (Cocoa) that sucks written in a language
(Objective-C) that sucks.
I am not a programmer, so I have no experience of OS X's development
tools. I've been using it since the first version, though, and I think
it's the least-sucky OS in the world today. In my opinion, it looks
beautiful - the most elegant, stylish and attractive GUI there has
ever been, thus far, and in use, it's the most polished and friendly
OS there has ever been. Its only serious rival in simplicity and ease
of use was its own predecessor, classic MacOS.