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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:22:36PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
> On 5/22/06, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> > Long-term maintainability of opensource is nice, but how about short-
> > term usability? I've documented 12 crashes on my powerbook in the past
> > two years. 5 of them were because of a bug in Apple's APM
> > implementation. The other 7 were because firefox still doesn't quite
> > handle flash properly.
> >
> > Before OS X, I had 7 years of Linux desktop hell. [...]
>
> Two years is a long time. If you're going to compare LInux desktop to
> OS X, at least do us the decency of comparing the newest Linux
> desktops. A lot has changed in two years. Ubuntu for one thing.
>
> Of course you're probably going to reply "I don't have time to waste
> on trying new Linux desktops" - if so, don't waste any more time on
> this thread either.
>
> That said, I'm not claiming that the latest Linux desktops are better
> than OS X. On the contrary, my wife just got a fancy new MacBook Pro
> and it's great. It has a lot of fancy features which Linux can't come
> close to matching.
First of all, its not free, but in addition to that, I have to admit that
the Mac OS desktop has aways been viewed by me and the single ugliest, most
useless, inherently unintuitive and crippled desktop I've ever touched.
And what makes this even more bizzarre is that the Next desktop and the
Free Software derivitives like wmaker are pretty good and still my favorite
work environemnt. So how can Aqua et al be just so bad. Its almost like
if the Mac is really usable, then everyone would come to know just how nailed
down the general OS is.
> But the Linux desktop (I have an Ubuntu laptop) is
> great too. It doesn't crash, ever (well, there are occasional power
> management issues with suspend/hibernate, but I don't think it's any
> worse than what you described on your PowerBook).
>
> And while my mom loves her G4 iBook, I wouldn't dare inflict a Linux
> desktop on her. But for someone who knows what they're doing, a
> modern Linux desktop doesn't suck at all.
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