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Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Nothing you say can convince me that X11 is trash. In fact nothing you say will convince me that Macs arent proprietary, bullshit, so similar to microsoft windows. Where is the source code to quartz? How much did Mac OS X cost you? Maybe the truth of the matter is that your insecurities about mac os make you trash talk linux so much.
lol. thats funny.
As much as i love open source and free software, i am not that concerned with apple being proprietary. They are taking steps to embrace the open source community, but are still a business. they have to make some money to stay afloat. You cant expect them to just open up everything and retire. Drop what they have spent decades building, all to satisfy some linux geeks?? please. maybe its the other way around here dude. You are so insecure about your linux, that you have to bash osx because they did what linux couldnt. made *nix easy, and look good, and still retain all the stability and power that *nix is known for.
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Originally posted by insomnia:
No they don't. They do an auto-reset for the UI.
You can configure X11 the same way.
IMO, most of you just fail to understand the X window system.
[ November 18, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]
So much for user freindliness. Who wants to manually restart x11? Why should i have to? I shouldnt have to "understand" x11. I should be able to just use it, without some deep knowledge of its source, or why it does what it does. The point of user freindliness is that I can just use it without being a master, you know, like what osx and windows do. I dont have to configure quartz to read my mouse, or have to kill it and restart it when i want to change something. Until Linux is ready for the average "idiot" user, it will never take over the desktop. I dont care how much "better" it is than anything else. In fact, noone does. at least, not enough people to actually matter. Mom and dad sure arent going to switch to a linux distro because it is superior to windows, all they want is something that they dont have to deal with. Get online, type some emails. And not worry about shit. They could probably do this now, but they cant have their aol, or msn, or have the kodak photo software installed that they are so familiar with. My roommate sure as hell wont switch. She tried openoffice & staroffice, and both failed. she didnt like them. She even used them for a month to do her homework. So, no ms office on linux, no switching for her. I think that would apply to alot of people.
The only people i know who use linux as an everyday os, are actually quite intelligent, and like to get their hands dirty, so to speak. They know computers. I dont. Id rather not deal with it you know. As long as i can get my work done with little to no hassle, then im set. Linux does not let me do this. Sorry to say that.
