Subj : Macintosh
To   : Mrproper
From : Darkytoo
Date : Sat Jul 02 2005 04:12 pm

  Re: Macintosh
  By: Mrproper to Deuce on Sat Jul 02 2005 04:02 am

 >   Re: Macintosh
 >   By: Deuce to Angus Mcleod on Fri Jul 01 2005 23:28:00
 > 
 >  >   Re: Macintosh
 >  >   By: Angus Mcleod to Deuce on Fri Jul 01 2005 23:53:00
 >  >
 >  >  >  > The closer you look, the more you discover that X and Aqua share on
 >  >  >  > ability to put graphics on the screen.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > X is pretty clunky, but it does have one or two nice features....
 >  >
 >  > Hrm?  I've never found X clunky, I love it to death.  If they would get o
 >  > their butts and add sound support into it too (and take it out of the ker
 >  > would be madly in love.  Aqua is very pretty, but it's a completely diffe
 >  > class of software... and could not possibly replace X for my current uses
 >  > either at home or at work.
 >  >
 > 
 > I've alway wished they would take the sound support out of the kernel and
 > create a universal sound server for X, that would be lovely.
 > 
 > 
That's the one of linux's many, many issues.  There never will be "the
universal sound server" because someone will get sick of it and write their
own.  KDE?  Gnome?  NextStep?  text mode?  How many thousands of mail readers
are there?  millions of window managers?  each one different, with of course
they're own themes.  I used to think this was a strength of linux, having so
many choices, but it just overwhelms after a while.  I used to run linux and
then I got this powerbook for school.  Want to install a program?  Just
download and copy it to the applications folder.  want to delete a program? 
just delete it.  No messing around with libraries, wider selection of
software, and the whole thing just works...no scrambled file system, no more
having to re-compile the kernel to enable some strange driver.  It's
wonderful.  

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