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I'm surprised you say you don't get that. Thanks for reading my comment so charitably ;-) What I'm saying is that beauty to the professional user and beauty t
by dkarl 16y ago
I'm surprised you say you don't get that.
Thanks for reading my comment so charitably ;-)
What I'm saying is that beauty to the professional user and beauty to an innocent bystander are different things. A professional actually cares more about usability and certainly cares about aesthetics as they apply to usability. The way a professional perceives a desktop will be very different from the way a casual user does. But some people are self-conscious about that; they don't want their professional exposure to change the way they perceive things, or at least they don't want anybody else to notice. So they want a plastic consumer case for their Hole Hawg[1].
Not that OS X doesn't have a lot going for it on the desktop, but a major part of the appeal for developers is that they can have a great desktop they love without non-geeks thinking they must be a little weird to love it.
[1] http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
- randallsquared 16y agobut a major part of the appeal for developers is that they can have a great desktop they love without non-geeks thinking they must be a little weird to love it. Most developers (and sysadmins) I know positively delight in their reputation of being a little weird. I know that given two options I like as well otherwise, I'll usually pick the less common one. I still use OS X, though, having switched from Gentoo in 2003, and having tried Ubuntu and Arch for 6-7 months within the last year.
- nailer 16y agoSorry if you think I was being uncharitable. I suggest that stating that someone else must not be a programmer on a programming site may not be the best way to conduct a polite conversation.