*sigh* ... this is quite possibly one of the most egocentric and rather quite snotty comments i've ever heard made... aside from very devout MAC users, I have heard nothing but complaints from the "common" MAC user about their machines.
And all those complaints seem to be, in my experience, "It doesn't work like Windows! Where is my right mouse button? How am I supposed to use my computer without it!" I admin my school's network. I run into that all the time. And if they want to use a Windows machine, I point them to the labs across the hall. Where of course, right click is disabled in our security policy. :twisted:
I find the Windows interface very intuitive and very logical to operate...
Yes, Alt-F4 makes perfect sense to close a window over say..... command-W (window). Hmm... and where was that documented again? It make sense to use an uninstaller to trash a program, rather than drag it to the Trash/Recycle, just like you would a document. Just about the only problem I had with the Mac OS UI was dragging a disk to the trash to eject/unmount. And that is no more anyway.......
development on the Linux and unix OSes promise to be even more impressive in the future...
Are we talking KDE and Gnome here? Ehh... I run KDE on my Debian box. Gnome is a steaming pile of crap. KDE 3.1 is getting to the point where I almost want to let my mom use it. Almost. Lots of estoteric error messages that use overly technical language when it isn't necessary. But I will agree, things are looking promising in this department.
BTW, Mac OS X is a genetic UNIX. It runs a modified version of Mach called xnu, and userland is FreeBSD 4.4 in 10.2.6 (what I run). Mac OS X ultimately traces itself back to NeXTStep, which many consider to be the most innovated UNIX ever. So yes, UNIX-based OS's promise to be even more impressive in the future. :wink:
and I find Macintosh hardware lacking in what i ask it to do on occasion...
Ehh.... no argument here. Although, with the new IBM chips in the pipe, this may change soon.
