Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > As someone who gets stuck using them all, I know why my favorite UI is > OS X. > > 1) I administer the system the least > 2) Quicksilver > > The first one is the primary reason I changed away from Linux. I was > always shaving some yak before being able to get work done. I don't > really thing about system administration on OS X. I plug something in > and it works. Yeah, there is some fairly esoteric hardware or really > cheap and nasty hardware that only works on Windows, but most of the > core components are already taken care of. Graphics cards, printers, > and wireless Just Work(tm). > It's funny, this is exactly why I hate OSX and mac in general. I *LIKE* playing, fiddling, and otherwise hacking my system. It's fun when I break something and have to fix it, that's how I learn something new. I don't want the os to hold my hand and do it for me, I learn nothing that way and the system, to me, seems inherently less flexible.
> It was OpenGL graphics card configurations that broke the camel's back > and caused me to move to OS X. I never looked back. Something I've never had trouble with, interesting. > The second one, Quicksilver, is one of the things that offers me a > "between ground" in between all-UI driven and all-command-line driven. > I don't have to navigate through nested folders to find and launch my > application. I don't have to hunt for the command name in the > filesystem to run something. I don't have to pop open an entire > terminal window to run one command. > > Apparently Linux finally has a Quicksilver clone--"GNOME Do" > > However, Dear Diety, that name sucks. > > As a side note, there is one specific piece of OS X eyecandy that I do > have enabled--Expose. It's *amazing* how much I miss it when I move > to another system that doesn't have it. It's just completely burned > into my muscle memory. Never heard of any of it and "GNOME Do" doesn't exist on my system in any permutation of upper and lower case. Tyrion -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
