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I love Linux's elegance and power for development, but can't use it as a "regular computer" for three reasons: 1) The GUI is terrifyingly ugly, in every single

by zavulon 16y ago

I love Linux's elegance and power for development, but can't use it as a "regular computer" for three reasons: 1) The GUI is terrifyingly ugly, in every single distro I've seen. Ubuntu is trying, but they're still way behind. If I only ever needed command line interface on my computer, I would've fully switched to Linux yesterday. 2) It doesn't have Netflix, Vudu or anything else with Silverlight. This is not a "don't have it yet" type of deal - Linux doesn't have it and won't have it in foreseeable future because of philosophical differences (because it's using proprietary Microsoft code) 3) Most things don't work out of the box, and need some tinkering with. This is not such a big deal, since I love to tinker and after tinkering, they usually work much better than anywhere else. But for many non-development things, I love when programs I install on my machine just work. For that, OS X is light years ahead of everything else, and Linux is dead last.

bergie 16y ago
GNOME3 isn't too bad, visuals-wise. But it has to be noted the author was talking about Xmonad, which is basically a completely chrome-free, tiling desktop
technomancy 16y ago
> Most things don't work out of the box, and need some tinkering with. This is not such a big deal, since I love to tinker and after tinkering, they usually work much better than anywhere else. But for many non-development things, I love when programs I install on my machine just work. For that, OS X is light years ahead of everything else, and Linux is dead last. It depends on the hardware. If you pay attention up-front, it's very easy to end up with zero-hassle just-works-for-everything. Anecdotally, I've been using Thinkpads with Intel graphics drivers as my last three laptops, and the last time I had to manually edit a config file for hardware was back in early '07. With OS X, on the other hand, I can't use my phone to tether without navigating a bewildering driver labyrinth. Anyway, this stereotype is played out.
hasenj 16y ago
Unity is pretty cool, although there's still some GTK+ ugliness, like the tabbar in the Terminal and the file manager.

by zavulon 16y ago

bergie 16y ago

GNOME3 isn't too bad, visuals-wise. But it has to be noted the author was talking about Xmonad, which is basically a completely chrome-free, tiling desktop

technomancy 16y ago

> Most things don't work out of the box, and need some tinkering with. This is not such a big deal, since I love to tinker and after tinkering, they usually work much better than anywhere else. But for many non-development things, I love when programs I install on my machine just work. For that, OS X is light years ahead of everything else, and Linux is dead last. It depends on the hardware. If you pay attention up-front, it's very easy to end up with zero-hassle just-works-for-everything. Anecdotally, I've been using Thinkpads with Intel graphics drivers as my last three laptops, and the last time I had to manually edit a config file for hardware was back in early '07. With OS X, on the other hand, I can't use my phone to tether without navigating a bewildering driver labyrinth. Anyway, this stereotype is played out.

hasenj 16y ago

Unity is pretty cool, although there's still some GTK+ ugliness, like the tabbar in the Terminal and the file manager.