XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.os.linux.mandrake, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.redhat   
   From: timberwoof@stimpberawoofm.com   
      
   In article <1108275114.456562.85170@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
    imouttahere@mac.com 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. How well does the system sleep   
   > and wake up? How easy is it to use 802.11, share stuff over the network. How   
   > well does the OS manage power for portables?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Well... I think members of the Linux community work on the problems that   
   interest them. Unfortunately, there's no money to be made in making a really   
   good gui for Linux. (Look up Easel. Some of those folks are now working on OS   
   X.)   
      
   It seems to me that a lot of Linux and Windows people think that skins are a   
   good substitute for a fundamentally correct UI.   
      
   > 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 :)   
      
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