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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. I probably wasted
300 hours over those 7 years debugging window manager problems, tweaking
X, switching to X.org, yadda yaddaya yadda. Linux is not a desktop
operating system for the real world. If you have nothing else going
on in your
life, sure, spend 20 hours a month trying to get KDE or GNU or any of
the other hacked together bits of bloatware to run reliably, in the
mean time,
I'll run OSX and spend those extra 20 hours on important business,
like my own company, or my family.
I'm sorry, but the hacker mentality gets in the way of productivity
way too often. WIndows XP is a superior desktop than Linux. Linux is
an adequate (though
far too bleeding-edge sometimes) server operating system, but it's
nothing more than that.
On May 22, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Michael T. Halligan (michael-at-halligan.org):
>
>> Bah. ALL open source window managers suck.
>
> Window Maker doesn't -- in part because it implements the public
> OPENSTEP specification derived from NeXTStep.
>
> Imagine (most of) the elegance of NeXTStep combined with the
> freedom and
> long-term maintainability of open source. Or use Window Maker and the
> surrounding GNUstep library framework, in which case you don't have to
> imagine any more.
>
> As to NeXTStep itself: Pity about that awful, sticky-looking, slow,
> inflexible, proprietary thing claiming to be its heir.
>
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