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   From: none@trollfeed.com   
      
   On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:11:54 -0800, imouttahere wrote:   
      
   >>GNOME is so simple to use anyone could use it.   
   >   
   > That's not quite under dispute. MacOS 6.0 was also simple to use, 15   
   > years ago. The issue is one of modern functionality.   
      
   Are you speaking of Linux?   
      
   > How well does the system sleep and wake up?   
      
   Well.   
      
   > How easy is it to use 802.11, share stuff   
   > over the network.   
      
   Very easy.   
      
   > How well does the OS manage power for portables?   
      
   Not sure now...   
   FC 1 does OK on a 5 year old compaq laptop I have.   
      
   >   
   > Macs have the great advantage of having both the OS and hardware   
   > designed for each other.   
   > Windows has this to some extent, though of course Microsoft has a hard   
   > time keeping OEMs in line.   
   >   
   > Linux IMV is perpetually wrong-footed in this area, chasing the   
   > hardware but never quite managing it.   
      
   Try another view.   
      
   >   
   > It's be great to have dedicated Linux hardware but this seems counter   
   > to Linux's least-common-denominator strategy of hardware support.   
   >   
   >>I don't get the Linux bashing by Mac people.   
   >   
   > Indeed. Apple owes a lot to the GNU/Linux community.   
   >   
   > However, we do get sensitive about people making claims that Linux is   
   > as good as OS X.   
      
   .. Linux get sensitive about crap spread by both window$ and Mac users.   
      
   >   
   > For one thing, the linux environment lacks anything as clean as OS X's   
   > window server, its font rasterizer, multimonitor support, etc.   
   >   
   > The Linux community tends to punt the hard problems and then ignore   
   > them, or, worse, look to what Microsoft has done and slavishly copy   
   > them.   
      
   .... yep, that's the kind of crap Linux users get sensitive about.   
      
   >   
   > Apple pays a lot of people a lot of money to tackle these issues and   
   > solve them.   
   >   
   >> You should be bashing Windows.   
   >   
   > We do that too :)   
      
   --   
   Rick   
      
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