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On Sep 11, 2000 at 14:41, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
>> Too bad. U don't face up to reality U get sucked.
>Nope. Whoever makes life easy wins. Which is why Microsoft rules the
>software market, not IBM, DEC or Apollo.
YMOV. MS doesn't make life easy for me.
>Linux leaves you mucking in the details for too long, keeping you from
>getting your work done. Emacs and Vim both take weeks to get used to,
Which is why I'm still on pico, with my Lynx default editor set to vi in
an attempt to wean me off it. Oh yeah, I'll install emacs RSN, now that I
have disk space... I want SO from my SO, dammit!
>and in the end, neither can compare to Windows development environments
>like Visual Studio or HTML Kit. All Emacs and Vim promise you is quick
>keyboard shortcuts.
Which is all I want. Dunno VS and HTML kit, but some of the MS apps don't
DWIM or even DWISaid (which Linux does, if you know how to tell it).
>I don't think so. Linux + X + GNOME/KDE is as bloated as Windows 2000
>is, and much slower. Sure, Linux lets you choose what components you
Gah. I think we agree that GUIs suck?
>want to put together, but if you add in the components that you can
>expect on an average Windows desktop, Windows turns out to be way ahead
Because Windows is designed for bells and whistles.
>my X crashes every few days because it doesn't know what to make of my
>video card (which is listed as supported in X4.0, which I use). I've
Well, GUIs...
>even seen a system running just the console spontaneously reboot (3
>times in one day once).
Boggle. Beta kernel? Flaky hardware?
>And Linux is supposed to be the OS of keyboard lovers.
With the CLI.
>GUIs suck anyway? Why don't we all go back to punch cards?
Find me a reader and a warehouse (all for free).
It's the bells and whistles that I don't want and can't turn off that I
hate.
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