Gah!

[cdybedahl]

The more I use Linux, the more I appreciate MacOS.

In a way, it was less frustrating to work on a Windows box, because then I began with giving up on ever getting it to work in a non-insane fashion. With Linux I know it's possible to get it to work properly, if I can only manage to cut through the near-infinite layers of shit they've smothered the system with.

Why couldn't the Linux morons aim for being a bad copy of MacOS instead of a bad copy of Windows?

Comments

[rodluvan.livejournal.com]

What kind of linux did you run? My son use Debian and he likes it. Once you gave this advice in a news group: to choose the kind of Linux that your friends also has. I told this to my son. Your advice was good. My sons friends has Debian and he took it too and he could learn from them.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Knowledge is not the problem, I've used Unix since 1990 and installed my first Linux system in 1992. The problem is that the Linux crowd in general are trying make Linux idiot-proof, and in doing so they're making it unusable for non-idiots.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Because Apple are more paranoid about not letting anyone copy their OS?

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

You can't patent or copyright philosophies of design, so that's not it.

The difference here is that Apple seem to have adopted Larry Wall's slogan for Perl: "Make easy things easy and hard things possible", while the Linux crowd seem to be adopting MIcrosoft's "Make trivial things trivial and don't want anything else".