Unity Interface in 10.10 Netbook Edition

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Friday 29 October 2010 06:13:19 pm Liam Proven wrote:
> Not really funny. There's nothing wrong with Mac OS X. It's a very
> solid UNIX™ OS with a shell environment familiar if you know FreeBSD,
> and an excellent GUI with more polish than any other graphical OS on
> the planet. Sure, bits have DRM and things in but you can ignore them
> and use your own choice of tools - my OS X machines are full of FOSS
> apps.

I use Mac OS X, mainly for multimedia. It's the only GUI I have where often a 
program that crashes will keep you from using anything else, and one of those 
which give you the least feed back as to what is currently going on. And yes 
you have a shell, but most of it is useless because Mac OS X is no more 
organised as a *nix (directories and files with empty spaces in their name, 
configuration that ignores the ususal *nix config files) .Try to go to 
another partition at the command line and you'll understand what I mean.

When polish is used to hide defaults I'm not that impressed. Mac Os _has_ a 
shell but it's not supposed to be used - the terminal is not to be found 
in "Applications", but in it's subdirectory "Utilities"...)

So yes it's a nice OS, no I don't agree its the "most advanced" and while I 
use it I clearly prefer Linux if I can get it done in Linux.

Thierry

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