JR>> benchmarking or window dragging the only way to measure quality JR>> of engineering then that makes a 3GHz machine running Windows JR>> 3.11 better engineered than a 333Mhz machine running Linux.
Well, if the benchmarks would show so - yes, then the former is better enigneered that the latter, for our shame - at least in the windows dragging aspect. We can then claim Linux developers traded best engineering in this case for best engineering in other case - which is rather common thing to happen - but it would be misleading to claim that what appears worse is better, just we don't See The Light. JR>> Once again your talking market share for a non commercial product. Why JR>> do you want everyone to use Linux? It's obviously not because you care That's an easy question. Because then there would be more software for Linux and I could enjoy better Linux experience than now, hopefully. JR>> paramount to suggesting that a 1962 Chateau Lafeet is worst than a 20 JR>> Shekel bottle of Carmel Selected because carmel has an immensly huge JR>> market share. Yes, in some aspects it is worse - for example, it is much more expensive and hard to find. So if I want wine with my evening beef antrecote, Carmel Selected has much better chance to be invited than Chateau Lafeet. You may claim it is more _tasty_ or more _classy_ - but that's not the only thing that matters. JR>> magical multicultural fairy princess user interface". As if JR>> poeple living in Uganda and using Linux can even afford to run JR>> anything beyond X. All they care about is that it's free and JR>> stable. Actually, they and you care for different meanings of "free" :) Forgetting that may lead to dangerous illusions. JR>> If point #1 is wrong and the masses are collectivly intelligent JR>> then they can get together and write their own GUI and decorate JR>> it with helpfull magical monkeys. I see no base for this claim. "Masses" may be intelligent enough to apperciate a good powerful GUI, but not skilled enough or resourceful enough to develop a new one. Yours truly is an example - I would happy to see a GUI better than I have now on my Linux, but there's hardly any chance I will ever have time - and, probably, interest, and, maybe, skill - to write a new GUI. Unless, of course, somebody is going to pay me obscene amount of money for this ;) JR>> It works. Please don't try and suddenly forget tens of years of JR>> computing history by saying that it doesnt. Noone else has been JR>> around that long. It works, to some measure. It could work much better, though. Appealing to tens of years, you forget that people's needs change, and if once the needs were satisfied by X, it doesn't mean that would be forever. If people now want "eyecandies" or 3d accelration or jumping virtual desktops or something else - then the choice for Linux desktop is either to give people what they want or give way to those who does. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
