Here's another article trying to nail this one... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/oct/27/ubuntu-koala-windows7-review
2009/10/27 Brian Butterworth <[email protected]> > Can I made an admission? > > I have always thought, and I still think, that X-Windows sucks. There's > something about it that hasn't changed since the SparcStations days that > really creeps me out. There's just something in the way it refreshes that > makes me feel less .. interfaced to. In some ways Windows is a User > Interface and X-Windows is a Machine Interface. > > Apple did a great thing is OS/X with their own desktop manager. > > (Also, I'm addicted to ClearType in Windows 7. It even does it different > on different screens on the same computer.) > > I think I love GNU/Linux but really hate the dresses she wears. > > 2009/10/27 Fearghas McKay <[email protected]> > > >> On 27 Oct 2009, at 20:01, Matt Jones wrote: >> >> Sorry, I meant the bit about making Linux a copy of the windows >>> interface. >>> >> >> Sorry to be dense - but surely that is either a function of >> >> a The window manager >> >> b The applications >> >> rather than the Linux kernel that the GNU/Linux people keep insisting is >> the core & true spirit of Linux. .cf earlier threads. >> >> FWIW the last few Ubuntu interfaces I have used have felt more like >> Windows7 than any other UI, but I couldn't actually tell you the name of the >> Window Managers responsible :) >> >> I do think that the things that are more important are the applications UI >> and specifically the Set File/Find File/Open File interfaces. >> >> Cheers >> >> f >> >> PS who is probably being a bit pedantic after all the whining from >> GNU/Linux naming advocates in threads passim :-) >> >> >> >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, >> please visit >> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
