On 08/08/2014, at 3:55 AM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > OSX is sad. Very sad.
how is that? Having used it, the primary problem I have with it is the lack of a package manager. Some of the GUI conventions suck, but it is consistent. Unlike Gnome and all the other crappy windows managers Linux distros have had since the first X windows managers. And unlike Linux distros, you can just plug in something and it works. At this stage, my next comp with be Linux because Apple doesn't make a 17 inch laptop anymore. If they did I'd buy another Apple. I look forward to having a package manager, but I do not look forward to the horrible drama trying to get stuff to work, and trying to find where all the stupid config data lives for each application. Next time some stupid program talks about a file and doesn't give the absolute file name I shell nuke it. Apple's are bad that way too. But at least there's a fairly easy to access set of documents. For, say, Ubuntu, you're lost in a mess. > 30 years ago I used OS that actually knew what a keyboard is. > Unix still doesn't. you have to use platform specific hackery > to get something like SDL to send you actual key presses. > > You get used to it. No, I never have. That's because every application uses different conventions. The simple fact is keyboards and screens are not terminals. In the old days, we did have serial terminals. But that was LONG time ago and there's no excuse for modern applications to still expect VT100 terminal escape codes. -- john skaller skal...@users.sourceforge.net http://felix-lang.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
