[Klug-general] Re: You can't dis apple

[Karl Lattimer]

> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:36:29PM +0000, Dan Attwood wrote:
> > theres nothing blunt about macs. All the fancy razor sharp stuff is
> > still there, just hidden away beneath the surface - remember osx is
> > still linux/unix based.
> 
> Great, all there, just not easily accessable.

MAKE UP YOUR F*CKING MIND!!!! You either want to hide everything on the
desktop or show it?!?!?

> 
> > At the end of the day it's all about useability and unfortuently linux
> > still has a ton of usbility issues, even with the 'usable' desktops
> > such as Gnome or KDE. OSX and Windows are streaks ahead in terms of an
> > integrated desktop experience that provides the ability for my dad to
> > make his christmas cards and read emails and for me to support desktop
> > users in Japan isa fully intergrated asp environment. Rather then
> > bashing these popular, markettable systems surely it's better to learn
> > from them - it's very obvious that's what MS has done with vista
> 
> I find it ironic that you talk about usability in an email which is top
> posted. Its only due to the fact that mutt does threading tht I don't
> have to read it all, then scroll up to find your comment.
> 
> Yes, thats great, if you dad wants to make xmas cards, give him a mac.
> Personally I am a sysadmin who has work todo, I use debian. I don't want
> an integrated desktop environment. I want a system that works.

And you use debian on the desktop. Its about as stable as a weeble! Get
some RHEL on your servers and get fedora on your desktop! Get something
which isn't tested by four geeks in a shed!

K,