On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 07:52  PM, Harald Sundt wrote:

> Mac OS X feels like a real slick (fancy featured)  but clunky version 
> of a Mac Window Manager on Red Hat.

Really? Clunky?  I can't imagine describing OS X that way at all.  I've 
used Enlightenment, and I've used a lot of other fluff systems, OS X 
generally feels damn smooth to me.  Early tonight I was just saying to 
ben how I think Aqua feels like an light weight window manager.  A lot 
of aqua has been designed towards speed.

> In fact, Mac OS X reminds me of the late great Edsel Gnome or 
> Enlightenment window manager with all its ripple effects and 
> translucent windows. God, I'm no Guru or wire-head, but it feels like 
> fluff to me...
>
> I know its B&D Unix or whatever, but Linux goes smoother.  I think 
> there will be a lot of unsung and un-noticed Mac users with both Mac OS 
> 9 and X on their system for Years!

Do you mainly use OS 9 apps?  When you run classic apps you are really 
running a whole OS 9 system in the background I believe.  I would assume 
that would feel very clunky.  Personally I don't boot any classic apps.  
I already have what I need from the unix side, the OS X side is just a 
playground :)


Jim

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> Hal
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