325xi;221011 Wrote: > Unix carries too much from legacy systems, starting with vi, which leads > to adopting legacy work style. Widely available X-apps are so horrible > that I don't always find them worth the bandwidth they take - and they > aren't always available, which gets me back to antique vi. Yes, I know, > there are some cases when you simply can't live without Unix, large > enterprise systems is a good example, but I would never touch it if I > have a choice.
This might be the wrong thread to discuss this, but here we go. I kind of both agree and disagree. The recent Linux distributions is so many times better than what Linux looked like just 2 years back in time. I've only used Ubuntu during the last years, but as I understand it there are several other distributions that are on the same level. There is still a bit left until it reaches the easiness of Windows for inexperienced users, but for me I have to say the Linux just feels better than Windows most of the time. I have both Ubuntu and XP installed on the same computer in a dual-boot configuration and Ubuntu feels a lot faster compared to Windows. The only disadvantage with Ubuntu, is that there are some things that doesn't work as goods as on Windows, for example: - iPod synchroninzation (since iTunes doesn't run on Linux) - Photo Managment (There is nothing that is close to iMatch or Adobe Lightroom on Linux) - And some other small stuffs But, I do agree with you on one part. Even though most of the settings can be changed from a graphical user interface these days, I still tends to have a command shell open where I do these kind of things. The reason isn't really that the graphical applications are bad, it's just faster to do it from the command shell when you know how to. I'm pretty sure the situation would be the same on Windows if it had a decent command shell, which it currently doesn't. IMHO, the default text editor in Windows (notepad) isn't that much better than vi. And No, I'm not trying to start a flamewar against all vi-lovers. Vi works, but unless you are really advanced the only shortcuts you remember is how to insert/delete a character/line and exit with/without saving. With only these shortcuts it isn't that much better than notepad, I even think notepad feels better and that's pretty bad. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35881 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
